SAILOR'S RAPID RISE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 153, 26 December 1918, Page 6

SAILOR'S RAPID RISE

A LEADER IN A DAY.

■ A message to London from The Hague says that a remarkable personality who -has been brought into prominence by the German revolution is a sailor called Heise, formerly bosuns-mate on a Üboat, and now dictator of Hamburg and the vicinity, and the soul of.the movement for the establishment of an independent republic of the Lower Elbe. Heise sprang into fame at a mass meeting of Hamburg marines on Stli November. After listening contemptuously to the oratory of professional demagogues, Heise sprang on the rickety platform and roared oat, "Yon are listening to a useless pack of demagogues and tub-thumpers. You should elect one of yourselves to lead you. Now go and choose." When he later asked the crowd if they had chosen, there was a roar of assent, "You've elected yourself." Heise established himself at the Senate's office, whore, -with the aid of a fleet of armoured, cars, he keeps esxemi plary order by sharp methods, meting out summary punishment to wrongdoers, thieves, and looters.

Heise now considers the time has come to seek outside recognition, and recently sent a delegation to Holland to ask for the support and recognition of the Allies in establishing a Harisa republic entirely independent of Berlin. Ke assured a great reception, to any Allied warship which would be sent.