DUTCH MUTINY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 7

DUTCH MUTINY.

navy in revolt.

SHIP COMMANDEERED.

Crew Sail from Port While Their Officers Are Ashore.

TROUBLE in east indies.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright)

(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, February 5,

"The Times" correspondent at The Hague reports that a cut in the Army and Navy wages in the Dutch East Indies culminated in dangerous trouble. Two of the largest cruisers Ttenfc to sea after 48 members of mutinous crews were arrested, then a mutiny occurred at the nayal depots, resulting in the transportation of 423 offenders. "To-day the native crew of the training ship Seven Provinces, dissatisfied because their pay was cut 17 per cent compared with the 15 per cent cut on Dutchmen, overpowered the officers who remained aboard after the commander and the majority of the senior officers had gone ashore, seized the vessel and left for parts unknown. They were laboriously, pursued by the small, and slower, Government ship Aldebaran. The native crew of the Seven Provinces secured rifles and ammunition, end with fixed bayonets, caused, the nine Dutch officers'aboard to surrender. The crew, thai took the vessel out of port. . The Aldebaran has the Seven Provinces' captain and naval and military detachments aboard. The mutineers are believed to be heading for Sourabaya. The .Dutch squadron is exercising near the . south coast of the Celebes, and is also endeavouring to intercept the Seven Provinces.. '