GERMAN NAVAL MUTINY.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 January 1918, Page 5

GERMAN NAVAL MUTINY.

AN OFFICER'S STORY.

GHT AT WILHELMSHAVEN.

1 description of the German naval itiny, given by Second-Lieutenant .dolph Glarfelder, who took part in and who escaped to Switzerland, \es a better idea of the extent of

; mutiny, which involved 12,000 n and 25 ships, than any despatch sviously published. Glarfelder cmisies that the revolt was the direct come of bad food, the tyranny of officers, and general dissatisfac-

i, and that the movement was eneered by the social-democratic up, known as the Marxian Intexionalists, who are urging national kes and country-wide uprisings as best means of securing a German olution.

rlarfelder only describes what took se in the last days of July, and the inning of August, and he declares t other tragedies may have been cted since, if the German rulers ed to keep their agreements with sailors a&d marines, as undoubtedthey would, if it was to their adtage. The revolt he pictures lasTfrom early morning to midnight, ;n the men on land, recognising t loyal regiments were pouring inWilhelmshaven to help the Govment, went back tolheir ships.

larfelder, -himself one'of the leadin the. revolt,: says the revolutionformed a central terbrist com;ee, which discussed whether the tre of the uprising they .planned Hid be the army, \he civilian popu-

ans, or the navy, and finally desd that the navy, greatly embitterby bad food and despotic regulas, offered the most promising md for a start. Propagandists bework by entering the service of naval hospitals, which gave a 1 base for operations generally in

il centres. He described the hos--1 to which he was attached as ting "9000 repulsive cases," meanmen so horribly mutilated, but alive, that the authorities dared send them home, and so failed to fy the relations of their exact reabouts. He declares that there 3 200,000 repulsive cases at least Jermany —mere wrecks of men, breathing and that there is a ship kVilhelmsh»ven with nothing else [o except to make daily trips to burying dead. ithin 24 hours the death ferry has n 800 cases to sea for burial, and until then is the name of the vic-

published as having died on serAs an instance of the spirit of naval men at Wilhelmshaven, felder mentions that when on a at occasion the naval chaplain to death ferry exalted the memory lie dead as having given their "for the Kaiser," the mate inated by shouting, "But not willr" In the disorder which ensued of the crew sided with the "mate, .finally it was necessary for tEe lin himself to arrest the mate. A days later the crew of the death • were tried for mutiny and exeI—an1 —an incident which aroused renent throughout the service irfelder gives a graphic account e way in which one of the arsenrts on the day set apart for the ? sided with the rebels and eni 11 coastal forts wfih considersuccess. Pour uncompleted batips, bridges, buiulTffgs, and fitnit docks atwilhejmshaven 176? e oyed. In tTwuangars fired were new Zeppel™, wfilcn were co~mIy wrecteda. Most of the mutinmanaged to returOo the sings, nany were mown (Town by ma--gun fire.