THE AUSTRIAN NAVAL MUTINY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 202, 15 May 1918, Page 5

THE AUSTRIAN NAVAL MUTINY

DETAILS OF THE OUTBREAK

A CONDITIONAL SURRENDER

London, May 13. Details of tho Austrian naval mutiny, which was reported on April 29, show that it broke out almost simultaneously ut Pola and CatlRTO. Probably tho two risings woro preconcerted. Tho workmen at Pola struck demanding tho mitigation of sentences. Various officers and tho crows of numerous ships joined in, and the authorities yielded, granting all tho demands. Tho rising at Cattaro took a moro serious course. Sis cruisers and a number of destroyers declared for a revolution, tho German element refused to participate, and collisions occurred resulting in somo bloodshed. Eventually the mutineers seized tho port, arrested tho admiral and officers, and occupied the wireless station, with which they telegraphed their demands to the authorities in Yionna. Tho authorities replied evasively, and ordered a naval division to Cattaro.

Tho mutineers opened negotiations, which resulted in tho mutineers surrendering, with a promiso from tho Government that they would not bo punished. "ho ' authorities dismissed several high officers on tho ground that they dispj/y----ed a lack of firmness, and appointed a licw admiral who has: a reputation for severity.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

HUNGER AND DEATHS IN VIENNA

Milan, May 13. Two Italian nurses released from Vienna stato that conditions tlicro aro almost insupportable. Deaths from exhaustion occur continually in the streets. A physician informed them that 2000 (lead aro buried daily in tho principal cemetery—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. NEW AND GRAVE WAR CRISIS CONDITIONS IN GERMANY WORSE. . Now York, May 13. Mr. Cyril Brown, tho New York "World's" Haguo correspondent, learns that Germany is approaching a new and gravo war crisis. Tho people aro alarmed bccauso of tho delayed victory and tho dwindling food supplies. Tho comparativo plenty enjoyed in the winter has now been succeeded by hunger, and the meat ration has already been reduced. Siokness is spreading alarmingly, and 23 per cent, of tho population aro suffering from disease. Germany's food reserves for civilians are near tho point of ■ exhaustion, and no roliof is in sight.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE GREAT PAIR AT LEIPZIG. London, May 13. Tlio "Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent states that the annual great Fair of Leipzig was a dccided success. Many Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danisli buyers attended it. No articles of luxury or leather or rubber goods were exhibited, but there were thousands of substitutes, especially foods. Tho German manufacturers aro producing largo quantities of cheap fanoy goods made of substituted raw materials, which aro choaper, more' l plentiful, and more durable than tho original raw materialsused before the war. It is untruo that the manufacturers aro accumulating vast stocks for tho foreign markets after tho war. The factories aro working under difficulties, but will not take long in getting busy when the war is over. Meanwhilo they aro supplying goods to Holland, Scandinavia, tho Balkans, and Turkey—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.