Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-11-15
REBELS SEIZE
GERMAN NAVY
Submarine Crews Join in Revolt
ton Resembling BoIshev'St
Rising in Russia.
SOLDIERS ARE IN SYMPATHY.
Twenty Thousand Deserters Parade IN
Berln-Reichstag Socialist and
Peoples Council Head
Control kiel.
SOLDIERS ARE IN SYMPATHY

London.-The entire German navy
and great part of Schleswig is in the
hands of the revolutionists, according
to reports received in Copenhagen
from Kiel and transmitted by the Ex-
change Telegraph Company.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the En-
change Telegraph says that two battle
s;,ins, the Kaiser and the Schleswig-
.:to!s;eln, were first seized by the mu-
:;3!aers and that 20 officers, including
tgvo captains, were killed.
It is reported that the garrison at
.t!ol refused to march to the harbor
.,,L that the sailors threatened to blow
~ the battleships if ottacked. They
=. defending the ships and refuse to
.,,i:rn to their duties until treaty OF
.,'ace is signed.
..:cl is governed by the marines, SOL
rs and Workmen's Council. All the
..gEsho1s have been occupied by Red
-. IS. The street car lines and rail-
rs are under the coptrol OF the
".!<lien's Council.
.t..:+e. Secretary Haussman and Gus
Ny Noske, Socialist member OF the
.;"hStag, were sent to Kiel by the gov
-.ument. Hugo Haase, leader of the
>u.alist minority in the reichstag, ana
'eor"e Ledebour a leader of the So
4. Democratic party, are also there
. complete the formation Of local
,>nmittee.
After a conference between Secre-
"ry Tiaussman and Deputy Noske and
e Workmen's and Soldiers Council
80 following proclamation was is
led:
Comrades: For the first time politi-
a: power Is in the hands Of the SOL
f:iers. Great work lies before US. But
n order that it's realization can take
place the organization of our move
!nent was necessary. We have formed
4 Council Of Workmen and Soldiers,
and it will be responsible for the pres
arvation of order"
The following points were passed by
he council:
First. - Secretary Haussman will
take care that the demands Of the Sol
Tiers and Workmen's Council shall be
forwarded to the reichstag.
Second.-The immediate cessation
# all military measures directed
lgainst the movement of the council.
Third.-The navy to be ordered to
leave the harbor.
Fourth. Military prisoners to be re-
leased.
The German authorities have decid'
ID to suppress the revolution at Kiel,
according to a dispatch from Copen-
hagen to the Exchange Telegraph
Several thousand soldiers from Feb
aarn island have been ordered to KEEL
The Workmen and Soldiers Council,
these advices state, has decided to
make a stubborn resistance.
~ The Kiel Zeitung said that the
streets of the naval base were being
,uarded by soldiers, sailors and strlk-
'ng workmen. Officers were being dis
lrmed and arrested, while warrant and
lefty officers who did not join in the
movement were also being disarmed.
A number Of German garrisons on
he South Baltic coast have deserted
aud are going to Kiel, says another
Copenhagen dispatch. The red flag
has been hoisted at Warnemunde, a
seaport of northern Germany, and the
port Of Rostock, on the Baltic sea
coast.
Continuous demonstrations are TAX
.ng place in Berlin, according to the
Social Demokraten of Stockholm.
Twenty thousand deserters from the
army are marching through the streets
of the capital.