GERMAN SEAMAN
AN EMERGENCY COURT. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) BERLIN, October 23. The authorities at Kiel are promptly arresting and convicting 120 German seamen for mutiny in Russian ports. Hydroplanes and motor-boats are rushing prosecutor® and detectives aboard where sailors, refusing to . work, are being taken into custody and haled before am emergency Court. To-day 20 were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for disobedience and immediately gaoled. Others were remanded on mutiny charges. ENTIRE CREW ARRESTED.
The crew on strike on the ship Quinta from Leningrad, again mutineered on the high seas, and officers brought her to Koenigsberg. The entire crew were arrested.
; Under ii incitement by Bolshevik agents at Leningrad, the crews of 40 German steamers there struck against wage-cuts. Diplomatic representations stopped interference by the Reds with the crews, who returned to their ships, which were ordered to quit port.
Thirty-three arrived at Holtenau, where 230 sailors were arrested fo' mutiny. They were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1931, Page 6
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