VIRTUAL MUTINY
ON MANY GERMAN SHIPS WHOLE CREWS OF U-BOATS IMPRISONED. FOR REFUSING TO SAIL. (By Telegraph— Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. A virtual mutiny has broken out in many German ships, affecting entire crews, says the Moscow radio. Naval men comprise 50 to 70 per. cent, of those interned in German military prisons. The complete crews of three U-boats were sentenced to five years’ hard labour- fox- refusing to sail. Many German nav.al personnel have surrendered on the Russian front, to which they had been sent in penal battalions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1944, Page 3
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