STORY OF NAVAL MUTINY

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20988, 17 October 1933, Page 9

STORY OF NAVAL MUTINY

AMUSING EXPLANATION HOW SOVMiT PKESS AS DECEIVED u-nti-kd wow fxr.'.Tiac teleg aAPii -- coryr.io rrr.! (Received October J6, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 16. The alleged mutiny on 11.M.5. Hood last week is now amusingly explained. During naval exercises four naval cutters landed seamen representing "pirates" at Invcrgordon. These men were rounded up by others from the Hood and Renown. Peopie in Invergordon, seeing marines with hxed bayonets pursuing seamen, spread the story or a mutiny. The Admiralty indignantly repudiates the reflections on the "splendid ship's company." There is an interesting story behind the Admiralty's denial of the mutiny. Only one London newspaper" published an allusion to unrest in the fleet, but soviet newspapers carried columns describing insubordination in the British Fleet. They elaborated on the doings of the'"mutinous crew of the Hood, many of whom were openly wearing red." The simple explanation of this was that the pirate party wore distinguishing red ribbons on their sleeves.

MANCHUKUO TROOPS

.MASSING FAR EASTERN CRISIS ANOTHEU SOVIET I'KOTEST SHANGHAI, October 16.

Munchukuo troops are concentrating at Hailar, 110 miles-, east of Manchuli, on the Soviet frontier. M. Slavutsky, the Soviet ConsulGeneral, has lodged his fifth protest concerning the detention of the Soviet railway employees, and is again demanding their release. Commerce and trade at Harbin are completely at a standstill, while the population anxiously awaits a solution of the present impasse.

SIAMESE REVOLT NAVY (JOES OVER TO REBELS RAILWAY LINE TO MALAV\ (IT (Received Oetubej' 10. il.liu p.m.) SINGAPORE. October 10. Pa-.-engcr:, irom Bangkok report that the revolt in Siam is spreading. The na\y has gone over (<> the rebel*, who are. in possession of the arsenal. Therefore the Government has no ammunition beyond its .°.mall present stocks. The rebels captured Petchaburi, an imoortant lailway station on the line connecting Siam and Malaya, cutting oil communication between this country and Bangkok.