GERMAN NAVAL REVOLT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11367, 13 October 1917, Page 5

GERMAN NAVAL REVOLT.

EXPLANATION OF FLEET’S INACTION.

FEARS OF THE AUTHORITIES.

(Received Friday, 8.55 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11

The “Daily Chronicle’s” Amsterdam correspondent says: Details of Von Capelle’s revelations con linn the seriousness thereof.

In several eases of ships at sea the crews attempted to dispose of the officers 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 large scale, fearing an increase in the unrest.

The number of men condemned to death probably docs not exceed six, but scores are imprisoned, and many crews have been changed and intermixed. It is believed the phrase “with the object of handing over the ships to the enemy,’’ used in the Ec:clistag, literally described the fact. Travellers state that submarine crews arc only collected by the offer of high pay and privileges.