HAIG'S VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 5

HAIG'S VICTORY

! FURTHER DETAILS OF THE BATTLE I' NAVAL MUTINY IN " : GERMANY | CRUISER DESERTS RUT IS I FORCED TO SURRENDER i MEN ON FOUR BATTLESHIPS REVOLT i ■ GREAT SENSATION IN GERMANY The most serious and significant crisis in Germany since the war began is revealed to-day in the story of ft widespread organised reTolt in the fleet at WilHelmsharen. The men in four battleships revolted. The captain of the Westfalon was thrown overboard and drowned. The crew of the cruiser Nurnberg, then at sea, overpowered their officers, and made a dash, for the safety of internment, in a Norwegian port, but, pursued and surrounded by torpedo'boats, were foroed to surrender, and convoyed back to Wilhelmshaven. The Kaiser wanted one man in every of Hie mutineers to be shol, but the Chancellor, afraid to assume that measure of responsibility "to. the Reichstag, dissented, and in the end three were shot and the others sent to prison for long terms. The affair was organised by the Independent Socialists as a means to force tbo peace issue, and the event evoked an angry debate in tho Reichstag, and set a com--1 motion through the country. An English Admiral, Sir Cyprian Bridge, sco 3in tho smoke of this naval revolt the fires of revolution. The Gorman Press is guarded in its comment, but the Chancellor does not come well out of their remarks. On the Western front the Allies arc consolidating their aew positions. Parts of the lino have had to he modified, owing to the quagmired condition of the ground. late- particulars of the battle reveal incidents of splendid pluck and endurance. The men of Lancashire tramped through a black aight over frightful ground for eleven hours to reach their appointed place in the fighting line. They arrived in time and won their objectives. The German Foreign Minister has gone on. a higli' political mission—stated to be connected with the peaco issue—to tho capitals of Germany s allies.