THE GERMAN NAVAL REVOLT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 5

THE GERMAN NAVAL REVOLT.

AMERICAN PRESS OPINIONS. Austxalian-Now Zealand Cable Association. Received October 13, 9.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. The Times and Sun warn the public against attaching undue importance to the German mutiny movement, which must he well under control, otherwise the censor would not have permitted a word to go out. The* Tribune opines that, the time is not ripe for a. proletarian revolt in Germany, MORE SERIOUS THAN ANNOUNCED. RELIEVED I!ESI'LT OF U ROVES FAIL UR E. Australian-Now Zealand Cable Association. Received October 13, 11.55 a.m. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. It is believed that the mutiny in the German navy is more serious than was announced, and indicates that the morale is cracking under the strain of the U-boat failure, and the non-realisation of Admiral Vontirpitz’s boasts. ; The Kaiser will now hesitate to send out a fleet after his recent grandiloquent praises his naval men, which will now seem ironical. Some officials believe that Von Capelle’s reference to Russian revolutionary ideas is an intimation that President Wilson has driven in a wedge for the distinguishing between Kaieerism and the German people. NEW. YORK, Oct, 12, The Volkszeitung, which was recently deprived of mailing privileges,, joyfully hails the mutiny as the first gleanings of an approaching dawn, and the uplighting of the international sky, and predicts further and more important revolts.

SIX BIG SHIPS INVOLVED. Australian-Now Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Oct. 11. The Daily Clrronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent says: Details of Von Cupolio’s revelations confirm the seriousness thereof. In several cases of ships at sea the crews attempted to dispose of the oflicers and make for neutral ports. The fleet’s inactivity against Russia in the Baltic was recently criticised, but the unrest among the crows of the largo ships rendered it inadvisable to embark on any action requiring the use of the battleships. The insurrection involved at least six important ships. The authorities dared not take the sternest measures on a largo scale, fearing an increase in the unrest. The number of men condemned to death, probably does not exceed six, but scores are imprisoned, and many • crows have been changed and intermixed. It is believed the phrase, “with the object of handing over the ships to the enemy,” used in the Reichstag, literally described the fact. Travellers state that submarine crows are only collected by the offer of high pay and privileges.