The Nome daily nugget., 1918-02-07
GERMANY CAN'T WIN THE WAR"
 CAPTURED OFFICER TELLS WHY

were in sight Then the barragc ire from the British side ceased, 2nl We
 had only to reckon with the fire If our own gunners.
 We put up a white flag as the Brit ish approached and shouted out that we were sick of the war. Seeing that our own gun fire was still dropping around the British soldiers thought it was only another white flag trick. and were unwilling to treat us as hay ing surrendered. However, they were soon convinced on that point and We we had been in. There were then only some 200 of the battalion unhit
 On the same part of the front an- other Bavarian battalion refused to remain in the fighting line any longer, and when the officers threatened to shoot them the men broke into open mutiny and killed the whole of their officers. For sixteen hours after that they remained in the trenches, but one day they managed to get into com munication with the British and they surrendered.
 On another occasion a. Saxon bat talion which mutinied was punished by being sent into a particularly dan gerous part of the line, where they had to remain under fire for four days.
 Our own guns were turned on them all the time, and if they had attempt ed to leave their trenches they would have been shot down.
 Before the British attack came this battalion was removed from inc lno and a Prussian regiment was sent in ! its place. The Saxons were taken to 1 the reserve base, and after being ad- dressed by General Non Almin. two non commissioned officers and five men from each company were taken out and shot, with the intimation that every day that the battalion remained , mutinious the same number of mon would be shot until the whole regiment was wiped out
 It was only after the men had each signed a written expression of regret ! for their conduct and expressed tLeir determination to fight better in future that they were forgiven by the com mand. They were then removed to the eastern front to form part of an army being collected for dangerous enterprise against Russia
 The 249th, which is also Bavarian regiment through bearing Saxon name, broke into mutiny after suffer ing heavy casualties in the front line. and in spite of all the officers could do the regiment made to go over to the British Mines Word was taken in time to German headquarters, and ma chine gun parties were sent out to CO., operate with the artillery in shooting down the mutineers.
 Only about ono half of the battalion escaped. Of these some made their way to the British lines and were treated well, but others were forced back into our lines, where the men reported as rngleaders were shot and the rest sent to Mons to be tried as tra itors.
 The men of this battalion were forced to provide the firing party which shot their comrades accused of being rlngleaders When they were lined up for the task they were placed in front of a firing party from Prussian regiment and told that if they did not fire at the word of com mand they would be shot down along with their comrades
 The condemned men begged their own firing party to obey orders. saying that they did not wish more lives sacrificed. . but in any case if they had to die they ! preferred to be shot by their own com raeds rather than by tho Prussian butchers.
 People outside Germany do not know the whole truth about the naval ' mutiny. It was far greater than has been admitted.
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