The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-14
nation.
x Mutiny At Antwerp.

About a year ago there took place a terrible mutiny amongst the Ant werp garrison. My informant who was at the time stationed at that place, was an eyewitness. That mutiny was a pitched battle between the rebels and the loyal forces. Three whole regi- ments and a portion of another took part in it, while suppressinG the muti- ners there were nearly 70 1000 sol diers. There were more than 1000 casualties, on the side of the muti- neers, while my informant could not give an estimate as to the numbers of the killed and wounded amongst the Government soldiers. The mutiny continued during the major portion of a whole week.
 In that town I questioned more than thirty soldiers and officers who were at Antwerp during the period of the mutiny Without exception i every one of them corroborated each other as to the magnitude of the mu- tiny and the length of time it contin- ued.
 But when I made attempts to dis cover the prime cause of the military uprising. I became obliged to listen to as many "causes'' as persons I in-
 terviewed. This peculiar phase of the incident caused me to go into fur
 ther deep thinking. began to reason, and later was convinced, that the
 "causes'' of the rebellious mood amongst the German soldiers were
 many and varied. One of my infor- mants told me that during the Ant l most.
 Polygamy Preached by State
 It was in this place that I first be- came acquainted with the now great ly progressed polygamy movement in
 Germany.
 In this town, with a population of 5000 souls, nearly 12,000 incapacita-
 ted soldiers were lodged, most of
 whom are being employed by the gov-
 ernment in manufacturing war sup
 plies. The great majority of these men were minus one or more limbs.
 yet the authorities had found some
 sort of work for each of them. But I had not stayed in the town two days, when I began to learn what
 rank immortality ruled supreme in the name of the Fatherland!
 Immoral solicitors, masquerading under the sacred name of Social Workers for the Propagation of ] Race" had rendered the place into a betrothal hell.
 An intensive, aggressive and con-
 tinuous propaganda was being carried out by these social workers to in , duce women who could bear children to become temporary wives to inca pacitated soldiers.
 Bear a Child for the FatherIand!'' Young women were actually being
 persecuted for being "unpatriotic" should they refuse to ''bear a child for the Fatherland."
 Women, whose husbands were still
 at the front, were induced to bear
 children by soldiers who had been
 billeted in the town, while soldiers
 near the front, too distant from home
 to enjoy a short leave, were being bil- l leted at towns at hand and the wo-
 men of that town or city in turn were being importuned to become "patri- : otic"
 r made a thorough investigation to learn whether or not the movement was an extensive one. In the course 7 of my searchings I came across nine 3 pamphlets, written by various ''au- 7 thorities'' advocating polygamous marriages. On further investigation l discovered that these pamphlets were
 the work of one person, and that the , whole output was the diabolicaI work of our Berlin Educational Bureau !, The printers name did not appear in these pamphlets, but through one of the high officials of the Topographic al Union of Berlin, later learned be- yond the shadow of a doubt that the polygamous pamphlets were put out ; by the authorities under many fraud uIent names.
 = Gro Be Continued