New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-16
Said to Have Started Prosecu-
ton of Alleged
Plotters
Parliament Inquiry
Must Be Given Up
Won Capelle Now Said to
Have Acted for
Michaelis

COPENHAGEN, Oct. l5.-The Ham
burg "Fremdenblatt," copy OF when
has been received here, says the Ger
man government has decided TO prose
cute Herren Haase, Dlttmann ana
Vogtherr. the three Socialist deputies
whose names recently were linked
with the mutiny in the German fleet,
II possible. The government has sub
mitted evidence against the three
deputies TO the Imperial Court at Leip-
sic, and, therefore, has declined the
suggestion that parliamentary COM
mittee Of investigation be appointed.
II is believed here that the German
government, alarmed az the result OF
It's effort TO saddle the responsibility
for the feet mutiny on the lndepen-
Dent Socialists. has decided to force
the matter to an issue in the civil
courts A parliamentary committee,
unless composed entirely Of the Right,
or Conservative, element, would almost
certainly have acquitted the three
deputies. but in proceedings before
civil forum. the evidence may be sutii-
cient to make case against them, as
all have acknowledged political actlv-
ity for peace among the sailors of the
fleet. However. 1t is doubtful If the
governments action can have any
other result than that of widening the
breach between itself and the Reichs-
tag majority.
The "Lokal-Anzeiger" says the re-
mort that Admiral Won Capelle. the
German Minister Of Marine. had re-
signed evidently emanated from Won
Capelle's friends.
Capelle Followed Instructions
This newspaper declares untrue the
assertion that Won Capelle exceeded
the instructions Of Chancellor M'chse-
lis in making his declarations 70 the
Reichstag recently regarding the plot
that had been discovered in the navy
10 paralyze the feet so as 70 force
the government 20 make peace.
IL is believed that the political sit
uation which has arisen because OF DIS
content in some quarters with Or. MI
chaelis will reach a crisis before the
Reichstag reassembles, in December.
Or. MiChaelis remains in Berlin, con-
ferring with Reichstag leaders and his
personal advisers, endeavoring 10 find a
solution of the situation, but, according
70 advices received here, he does not
seem 10 realize that his own position Is
endangered
The Chancellor's biggest blunder, IN
the eyes Of the moderate press. was MS
rehabilitation OF the Independent So
cialists by his disclosures concerning
the mutiny on German warships, there
by driving the Socialists into opposl-
ton. which many persons believe VIII
unite the two Socialist wings into a
powerful radical opposition. Even the
pan Germans say that unless DR.. Mi
chaelis is able TO rule the situation with
a stronger hand he had better resign.
The Berlin Socialist paper. "Nor-
vaerts." in an editorial on the po-
Ii .cal situation, is quoted by an Am
sterdam correspondent as follows:
"It is enough to make one weep 10
think that we have a Chancellor like
Michaelis. Vice Chancellor like
Helferich. a War Minister like Won
Stein, a Naval Secretary Of State like
Won Capele. 1t is enough to make one
weep that in this critical time of the
empire a government should be in
power which neither at home nor
abroad can command or even lay claim
to respect. government az 70 whose
incapacity there is general consen-
sus of opinion from Heydebrand TO
Scheidemann and from Won Reyentlow
to Ledebour. and that we cannot even
tell whether or no this government
will be forced 70 make way for an
other more capable"