The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-11-24
GERMAN OFFICER
TELLS OF REVOLT
lnfuriated Sailors Mob an kd.
miraI and Staff.
BLOW UP NCOMPLETEDSHPS
Many Women Aided In the Mutlny,
Says Participant, Who Is Now Safe
In Observation-Disclosures Were
Moved Down by Machine-Gun Fire
Secret Agents Deceived.

The New York Evening Sun prints
an account Of the mutiny In the Ger
many navy as given by a participant,
Second Lieut.. Rudolph Glatfelder of
the cruiser Magdeburg, who escaped
to Switzerland. He Is a Social-Demo
crat.
Lieutenant Glatfelder's account of
the outbreak was in this country a
week before the cable dispatches told
Of Admiral Capelle's announcement
to the reichstag that a grave disturb
ance in the navy had been sup
pressed.
He tells how the mutiny started, re-
lating events that led to the bloody
conflict that lasted from early morn
ing till midnight. Infatuated sailors
and marines from 25 ships mobbed an
admiral and his staff Of so officers,
set fire to the barracks, Zeppelin
sheds, warehouses, wharves, naval OBJ
%servatory and then plundered the ar
senal.
One of the arsenal forts sided with
the rebels and engaged IL coastal
forts. -Four uncompleted warships,
bridges, buildings and ftting-out har-
bors were blown up. Some of the mu-
:tineers reached their ships, others
were moved down by machine-gun
fire. The lieutenant says ugly feeling
is universal in the German navy and
other outbreaks are feared.
mo less than $4,000 sailors and
marines were involved in this upris-
ing" says Lieutenant Glatfelder. 81
am making this statement from per-
sonal knowledge. This refers to the
last days of July and early days Of
Augustine final suppression having
been concluded on the sixth or sew
enth day of August, of which I have
learned since leaving Wilhelmshaven.
Secret Agents Deceived.
"In conformity to the plans of the
central terrorist committee a series of
loud demonstrations were held in
Berne. Switzerland, for the purpose of
deceiving the secret agents of Berlin
into believing that the center of the
coming uprising was to be near the
French frontier and that the agitation
was intended for the army in France.
"In fact, this was the original idea,
but the Russian revolution had
changed our basic plans and we had
decided to direct our energies in work
ing out a powerful agitation in the
v,ouu Tho innnndiatn aarrxinn ont nf
the new strategy was postponed near
ly two months on account of a serious
disagreement among our revolutionary
tacticians.
'The first group maintained that we
should exert all our energies to bring
about a revolutionary feeling in the
ranks of u armies stationed in
France and Belgium the second group
pointed out that the navy vas totally
overlooked by the Berlin police, there
fore 1t would be more effective if we
lcentered our propaganda at Zee
Ibrugge, Ostend and other Belgian cit
les.
"Finally our navalists won, and In
the middle of May 149 heroic COM
rades, So of whom were women, were
started to 16 centers.
my group was assigned to Will
helmshaven. In my group there were
seven persons, five of them women
Being an incapacitated naval officer
(the author of this report lost an eye
during a naval engagement with q
portion of the Russian fleet In the Bal
tic), and therefore familiar with our
naval centers, I was elected chairman
and director of our group.
SIT hardly took two weeks before ev-
cry one of our woman comrades had
obtained positions as naval nurses at
the Wilhelmshaven Imperial Naval
hospital.
Hospital Horrors Told.
1--WE selected the hospital because