NAVAL MUTINY.

Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 3

NAVAL MUTINY.

DISORDER IN SPANISH FLEET. (Press Asbii.— By Telegraph.— Copyright) LONDON, April 16. Tho Daily Mail's Lisbon correspondent BUtes Unit, owing to lack of discipline the sailors on tlie ilagship Don CurloK vrero refused shore leave. They tried to throw u lieutenant overboard, and being 'prevented, itisistcd that he be lauded. Admiral Souya boarded the vessel, and uuder threat of bombardment of Lisbon or t!he sinking of the ship, promised that tho officers would be changed. The mutineers only consented to land after the Lord of the Admiralty promised that they would not be arrested. There was a similar smaller mutiny on lhe warship Tejo. • The officers now state that their prestige has gone. Reuiter's Madrid correspondent states that tho crew of the Portuguescironclad Vasco di Gaina mutinied at Lisbon on Friday evening. <In response to signals and cries for help a tug went to enquire but "was received with rifle shots and compelled to return. Other vessels, including the Don Carloe, were similarly treated. It is reported that the crew killed a lieutenant becanso he killed a sailor who was about to fire one of tfie ship's guns at the shore. Portuguese newspapers ndd that the Vasco di Guma constantly signalled the Don Carlos, which mutinied. On the ninth the crew of the destroyer Vcjo und the training ship Don Fernadeo also mutinied. ' Reports are current of ucts of insubordination in several garrison towns. Seven of the Don Carlos' crew have been arrested.