THE SEVEN PROVINCES
DUTCH WAESHEP AT SEA'
IN HANDS OF NATIVE CREW
MAKING FOR SURABAYA
United Press Association—By Elsctde Tel*, erach—CopyriEhL'"" (Received 7th February, io a.m.)! BATAVIA, 6th February.' The official story of the -"naval mutiny on the warship Seven Provinces says that on 4th February at 10 o'clock in the evening the native crew of the.Seven Provinces returned unexpectedly from shorei and, after lights were extinguished •for a moment, probably as a prearranged signal, the natives took rifles and overwhelmed sixteen officers and nine non-commissioned officers, and then turned the cruiser seaward. After cruising in the roads of Olehleh till two in the morning the ship pursued a southern course. The Minister of the Colonies at The Hague stated that the mutineers were making for Surabaya to demand the release of their native-com-rades imprisoned earlier in consequence of a revolt against pay cuts. The commander of the Dutch East Indies fleet has been ordered to intercept the Seven Provinces and urge a peaceful surrender, but otherwise to prevent the battleship at all costs friom reacting Surabaya.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 31, 7 February 1933, Page 7
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177THE SEVEN PROVINCES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 31, 7 February 1933, Page 7
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