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Show 'VICE ADMIRAL HASJOGNED! Von Capelle Forced Out by Mutiny in the German Navy. LONDON, Oct. 12. Reliable reports re-ports received here by way of Holland Hol-land indicate the growth of a strong disinclination on the part of the German Ger-man seamen to servo on submarines. This news, the authenticity of which ' Is not doubted, is to the effect that i several seamen already have been shot for refusing to perform U-boat duty. The shootings are said to have j occurred prior to the mutiny in Wil-helmshaven. Wil-helmshaven. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 12. Vice Admiral Ad-miral von Capelle, the German minister minis-ter of marine, has resigned, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung. Vice Admiral Eduard von Capelle was one of the administrative direc-j tors in the ministry of marine before the Avar and had served as a captain I at sea. In March, 1916, hp succeeded! Admiral von Tlrpltz as imperial min-i ister of the navy. Several t-imps since then Von Capelle has appeared before I tho relchstag with optimistic state-! ments regarding tho progress of the unrestricted submarine campaign, as late as August 26. 1917, defending the U-boat policy o(f his predecessor and j himself at a mooting of the reichstagi main committee. I Vice Admiral von Capelle announced ' in me reictistag last Wednesday tnat: a plot had been discovered in Ihe navy to paralyze the efficiency of the ; fleet and force the government to I make peace, He said that the guilty parties had received their just deserts and attompted to link socialists with the plot. The imperial German chancellor, chan-cellor, Dr. Michaclis, also spoke of the' existence of a conspiracy in the navy and asserted that certain doputles were involved In tho revolt. The socialists and their newspapers have attacked both the chancellor and the vice admiral for their statements. LONDON, Oct. 12. The Inactivity of the German fleet in the Baltic sea recently when there were obvious opportunities op-portunities for attacking Russia, ac cording to a dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Amsterdam, was due to the mutinous outbreak in the German Ger-man navy The outbreak affected at least six important units of the fleet, putting them out of action and causing he authorities to doubt the discipline and loyalty of the crews of other large ships. It was impossible, the dispatch adds, to take stern measures on large scalo against the offenders, because be-cause that would have Increased the evil. oo |