The Washington herald., 1917-10-11
FOOLISH FAKE" REVEALED
Proposed stupendeus ResuIts.

Proposed stupendeus ResuIta
Intoxicated by the stories from Rus
sia- Of soldiers and sailors command
ing their officers TO salute and them
selves becoming generals ana sdni-
rails overnight q group Of German
bluejackets. how strong numerically
Ia as yet unknown. organised a move
ment:
/ To form a council Of delegatess
among the German navy. after the
Russian model.
? To bring about Organized dis.
obedience and thus paraiyze the whole
feet. with the ultimate aim:
= To force peace.
The concrete results OF this asits-
ton thus far known. were
The crew OF the 1ssOO-tou battle
ship Westfalen. while the vessel was
at 'Nlhelmshaven. mutinied and
threw their captain overheard. He
was drowned
The complement of the westfalen
Is 80 Officers and men. The German
naval roster published just before the
tANC1 N0RA- nCNlCu dE Lne ONt-
ueship's commandant
Turned ships Course.
The crew OF the Cruiser Nuernberx
also mutined, while the vessel was
at sea They arrested the officers,
1t is said, and headed for Norway to
have themselves interned. A mos
quito" fiotills overlook them and took
the ship and crew back to Wflhelms-
haven.
Similar scenes were enacted on two
other warships. according TO the un-
official accounts. Admiral Won Ca
pelle refused TO give the Reichstsg
any details OF the outbreak beyond
saying that the guilty parties have
been arrested and have received their
just deserts
One version has Il that the Kaiser
FASTENED to Wilhelmshaven and
ordered the execution Of one out Of
every seven. that Chancellor Michaelis
prevailed upon the Emperor to mod
ify this so that only three were shot.
High Treason Charged.
A grave political aspect attaches 10
the mutinous outbreaks The marine
minister openly charged In the Reich
eNot NAAoN NAAC cCOANlO1c IAOl NdE dlQtQ
and abetted by the Social Radical
wing. He named deputies Hausse and
Voghtherr specifically as having help
ed TO map out the plan Of action. The
conferences. he asserted, took place In
the radical Social conference room
In the Reichstag Building.
The Reichstag session in which these
disclosures were made will so down
in German history as the most sra-
matte Of tie war. according to Ber-
lin dispatches The climax came when
the radical deputies amid uproar de-
MED the marine minister's accusations
and defed him to furnish proof.
Hun Admiral Grave.
The head Of the German navy spoke
with rigid gravity and clearness. but
like a man who had 70 wiring every
word from his own lips. He began:
TT is unfortunately a sad agar
that the Russian revolution turned tn
heads Of persons in our navy and in
troduced revolutionary ideas among
them.
1T is proved that the principal agi-
tator conferred in this building with
the Independent social faction IN the
Reichstag, explained his plans to
Deputies Haase and Vogtherr and OBJ
tained their approval
Statement In Refused.
Il cannot make a statement here on
the subsequent events which occur
red In the navy. The few persons who
forgot their honor and their duty suf-
fered the penalty. can only say that
the rumors which are in circulation
are inmeasurably exaggerated
The combstive force Nof the navy
was not threated for a single moment
and things viii remain So"
Heavy prison sentences were given
those Of the mutineers who were not
shot.