The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-06

at KEEL IA September, have been re.
eeived here. This mhtiny was not 50
serious as the one at wilheimshaven q
few weeks earlier, but was more sig,
nilcant In that the men rose against
their officers because they were being
drafted into duty aboard the subma.
rines. Their mutiny was an effective
acknowledgment Of the extra hazardous
nature OF submarine work in the light
of the anti-submarine campaign Of the
British and American fleets
Two battleships were involved in
the affnir, the Kronpfinz and the Schles.
wig Holstein. On the former, the rank.
ing officer, Admiral Schmidt was
thrown overheard By members of his
crew, while his aide, Lieutenant Raule
was stabbed to death and his body cast
into the water. The admiral was res
cued.
Aboard the schleswig- H olstein two
officers were killed Many Of the mutt
neers were Imprisoned, while Admiral
Schmidt was so chagrined at the mu.
tiny on his ship and the treatment he
has received that he left Kiel i'm.
modiately after the affair. hs
Kiel newspapers tell Of the explosion
of tofpedoes In the Submarine Yards BY
which ten persons were killed and mum;
bers injured.
K Presumably referring to reports Of
yet another mutiny, they say "all 9th,
er reports are unfounded." ~ -
The First Mntiny @
An account of the first naval mutiny
which broke out at Wilhelmshaven on
July 30, has been given by Second
Lieutenant Rudolph Clatfelder, OF
the cruiser Madgeburg, who helped en-,
gineer the mutiny and who latei
escaped to Switzerland. He Is a Social
Democrat. He relates how the Social
list committee, through its central ter.
rorist committee, planned to turn
against the Kaiser. .s.. .a
He tells how mutiny started, relating
events that led to the bloody conflict
that lasted from early morning until
midnight. Infatuated sailors and ma,
rines from twenty-five ships mobbed an
admiral and his STAFF Of fifty officers
set fire to barracks, Zeppelin sheds
warehouses;, wharves, naval observa.
tory, and then plundered the arsenal
With the Rebels S..
One of the arsenal forts sided with
the rebels and engaged eleven coastal
Forts. Four uneompleted warships
bridges, buildings and fitting-out har.
bors were blown up. Some of the mt.
tineers reached their ships, others
We're moved down by machine gun FIRE,
The lieutenant says ugly feeling is uni.
yersal in the German navy and other
outbreaks are feared. III
"No less than $4,000 sailors and
marines were involved in this upris.
ing says Lieutenant Glatfelder. q
am making this statement from per,
sonal knowledge. This refers to the
last days of July and early days of Ap
gust-the final suppression having beer
concluded on the sixth OF seventh day
OF August, Of which i have learned
since leaving Wilhelmshaven.
hon July 80, about 5000 sailors and
marines wer called to a parade ground
at Wilhelmshaven. One Of our com
rades, who was a laborer in the parade
grounds, hastily came to me with Z
message that the sailors and marine,
had just been formed and were about
TO listen to government propaganda
the government being now engaged II
sending political orators to both the
army and the navy, telling them why
the Fatherland should continue fight
ing for peace dictated by Germany.
81 hurried to the parade ground
The government orator was wearing Q
brilliant naval uniform. He was one
OF the discarded 'graybeards' of the
navy. / had never seen him before and
was about TO ask his name from one OF
the naval officers near me when the
speaker ended his grafton with a cal
for cheers for our beloved Kaiser and
Fatherland'. The silence that greeted
the admiral's call for cheers was moi
only embarrassing, it was uncanny. 49,
Show Their Anger ..E.r.A iaH = ..
"0ur naval officers who surrounded
the orator-admirT showed their anger
One of them jumped on the improvised
platform, and, shaking his fist in an
ger shouted words which / could moi
J hear, as the body Of sailors and sol
diers greeted his first few remarks
with spontaneous laughter.
1.-THE sailors and marines were or
dered to form and march back TO Their
barracks. As the sailors and marines
passed, the party on the platform
watched them with disdain.
/" was told afterward that the old
admiral made insulting remarks 20
ward the end of the line one of the
younger marines returned the old ad
miral's insult with a sarcastic smile
Upon this, one of the officers on the
platform jumped from his stand and
struck the offender ON the face with his
gloved fist. ~ & .tt.r 70!
A Horrible Scene O.. S.. %&@ "a
"1'hen ensued horrible scene that
will never forget, 1t was grewsome.
1t was not battle. neither was it q
riot. 1t was like 5000 hungry and angry
lions let loose at their cruel keepers
The sailors and marines, who until q
few minutes before had been listening
to the speeches and then to the cutting
insults Of the government orators, had
suddenly turned wild beasts. / heard
groans and / heard shouts such as
have never heard before. Like hungry
beasts struggling at a piece Of meat
thrown at them, the men were practi
cally fighting each other in their at,
tempt to get at the handful Of officers
from whom the life had already de
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