ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE COUP THAT FAILED. CREWS REFUSE TO FIGHT. A BATTLE OF DESPERATION. AGAINST BRITISH FLEET. . . Received Nov. 20, 8,35 p.m. The Hague, Nov. 19, Newspapers publish seamen's letters detailing the projected coup on October 31. The commanders ordered the fleet to be ready for sea on Wednesday, This was suddenly postponed to Thursday. Then the commander of the battle squadron boarded the writer's ship and, the crew were paraded and informed that something deplorable had happenedCrews of the ships extinguished their fires, when ordered to ma.ke to sea, declaring that they would obey no orders, but refused to participate in a battle of desperation against the British Fleet. Tile officers intended to stake everything on the battle and blow everything to smithereens, rather t113.il surrctderLoyal ships were ordered to train their guns on the mutinous vessels, but the mutineers were not terrorised, so the coup was suddenly abandoned. —Times Service. THE HUN PIRATES. "THE LAST AND HEAVIEST SERVICE. London, Nov. 19. A wireless German official message states: A meeting of U-boat crews at Wilhelmsliaven on November 15 carried a resolution that they render the Fatherland the last and. heaviest service of taking oil the U-boats where ordered a-nnistice.—