El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-12
MUTTNY IN THE GERMAN FLEET
SHOWS TEMPER OF THE PEOPLE

4 MUTIEY IN the German navyi The news IS the most
n surprising that has cut Of Germany in many
= day Indeed, many would doubt the story were 1t
not that the German minister OF marine admiral Won
Cap IN the Tehstag and admitted there had been
such event. adding that the guilty persons had received
their Just deserts"
weared Of the war dissatisfied with the government
victims Of insufficient feeding, the sailors Of one
warship at Wilhelmshaven where the grand fleet IS
stationed, mutnied drowned the captain and then went
ashore The marines, evidently in sympathy with the mutt
neer refused to modest them It required other forces to
effect their surrender Were these other forces from the
et Inere mas been no word so Tar 70 indicate that crews
Of other ships took the least action against the muneeI
and it IS said the trouble widespread that grave
events feared.
On another ship, the crew took control and put the
cruiser out to sea- intending to put into Russian
tral port and become prisoners Of be nterned until
peace restored The main desire have been
get away from Germany and the brutality which is the
synonym in Germany for authority, whether exercised by
the emperor the officers Of a ship.
This vessel overtaken by destroyers and forced
surrender The emperor of Germany FASTENED WiIhelms
haven It IS to be noted most carefully that instead of
considering any grievances which his sailors undoubtedly
had he uneer out of very seven shot
death Mutny in time of carries with It the penalty
Of death IN any country but If these German sailors
served execution after the services they had given the
fatherland IN the inferno Of the Jutland battle and
Of other fights then maker Of the ntoerable
conditions against which they Tebeed also deserved to be
shot.
The penalty too much for chancellor MichaeIs who
did not altogether being human when he became the
imperial football for the emperor and the reichstag
urged the kaiser modify the sentence that in the end
only three mutneers given the death penalty while
the others heaped aggregate sentences of 200
years imprisonment.
The astounding thing not that the outbreak should
have been put but that ever should have started
The Germans not Mexicans nor are they Americans
yet Frenehmen. Americans Mexicans OF Frenchneu
would mutny against senseess cruel conditions and
have done often the conditions Not the
German, however Obedience is his watchword dis
cpne his ideal He is phenomenal in his love of order-
and oTderness with him alone things ma
teral but men as We-every in his place according
to his rank and station There have been food demonstra
tons among the civilian population in Germany for
woman Of any nationality with starving baby viii fight
the police and break down the door Of the shop where milk
bread IS to be had but heretofore has seriously
believed outbreak N the German army or the German
navy possible It uuthnkabe but has happened
True enough, the revolt carried through The
mutneers surrendered when little show of force was
brought against them. Natural inclination to obey and the
habit Of discipline worked against them so strongly that
they were quick to surrender They barely had enough Of
the spirit OF rebellion to start revolt and not enough 70
20 through with the enterprise. But even the start was
something Il Is safe to venture guess that Wilhelm of
Hohenzolern has done serious thinking about the
future Of his dynasty since the outbreak the imperial
navy than before.
VIII this demonstration amount to anything or IS It
merely sporadic something never again to occur? It viii
take time to tel that It be remembered that the
German people IN desperate straits The food which Is
sufficient to hold life in the body not that which salts
res and makes man conteHted Add to that hard work
and long hours and the overbeang brutality of the German