REVOLT IN GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1918, Page 5

REVOLT IN GERMANY

THE RED FLAG HOISTED AT KIEL.

SEVERAL OFFICERS KILLED.

WARSHIPS TAKEN CHARGE OF

Amsterdam, Nov. 7. There was a serious mutiny ■ u the battleship Kaiser. The sailors*.attempted to haul down the German 11a;.'. The officers resisted with revolvers, Lit the crew overpowered them and hoisted the vol flag, killing the commander and another officer and wounding a number of others.

Four companies of infantry were sent to Kiel to deal with the mutineers, of whom three companies joined the mutiny and disarmed the fourth. Cavalry were then sent, but the revolting marines and soldiers, armed with machineguns, met them and compelled the cavalrv to retreat.

The Soldiers 'and Sailors' Council at Kiel is now dominating the town. It seized all the foodstuffs at Kiel and decided that the officers may return to their positions if they promise to obey the Council.

Machine-guns have, been placed in many parts of the town. Later messages state that the sailors of the battleship Schleswijj also hoisted the red flag and arrested tlio officers. Twenty officers of the Kaiser and the Sdileswig have now been The sailors threaten to blow up the battleships if they are attacked. Other revolutionaries say they won't return to their ships until peace is signed. Admiral iSouchon, Governor of Kiel, offered to accept all the sailors' demands, including the refusal to salute officers'.

The mutineers are now Blundering the battleships at Kiel, dividing the ships' moneys. While the ringleaders at Kiel were conferring with Admiral 'Souchon, 1000 mutineers, overpowering the officers, poured int6 tho town. Antimutiny patrols joined the demonstration. ' The dock division resisted for some time, and firing ensued and the doekmen surrendered. At the barracks the mutineers seized the arms and the garrison joined the mutiny. Twenty thousand marched through the town with bands and red flags, Armed workmen fell in with the nroccssion, which halted outside the prison demanding the_Tjbera,tion of prisoners. These were released amid loud cheering, and the procession returned quietly.