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Show JflKRS SEIZE xEERIi NAVY Street Cars and Railways Also Under Control j of Revolters. Kiel Military Governor Accepts Ac-cepts Demands of the Workmen's Council. LONDON, Nov. 8. 12:45 a. m. Virtually all the German fleet lias revolted, according to a dispatch received from The Hague. The men are complete masters at Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, Helgoland, Borkum and Cuxhaven. J -rtKiel the workers have joined vthe navy men and declared a gen-f gen-f eral strike, says the dispatch. LONDON", Nov. 7. The entire German navy and a great part of Sehleswig is In the hands of the revolutionists, according accord-ing to reports received in Copenhagen from Kiel and transmitted by the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company. Kiel is governed by the mariners, soldiers sol-diers and workers' council. All the workshops work-shops have been occupied by red troops. I The street car lines and railways are under un-der the control of the workmen's council. coun-cil. There have been no disturbances. After a conference between Secretary ! of State Hausmann and Deputy Nosk and r the workmen and soldiers' council, the following proclamation was issued: "Comrades: For the first time political politi-cal power is in the hands of the soldiers. sol-diers. Great work lies before us. Germans Desert. "But in order that its realization can I take place, the organization of movement was necessary. We have formed a council coun-cil of workmen and soldiers' and It will be responsible for the preservation of order." or-der." A number of German garrisons on the south Baltic coast have deserted and are going to Kiel, says a Copenhagen dispatch dis-patch to the Exchange Telegraph company. com-pany. The red flag has been hoisted at Warnemunde, a seaport of northern Germany, Ger-many, and the port of Rostock on the Baltic seacoast. The German authorities have decided to suppress the revolution at Kiel, according ac-cording lo a dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange Telegraph company. Several Sev-eral thousand soldiers from Fehmarn island have been ordered to Kiel. The workmen and told iers' council has decided de-cided to resist. Demands Accepted. The military governor of Kiel, according accord-ing to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen, lias accepted the fol- t lowing demands of the workmen and sol- v dierscoiincil: f TMrelease of all military and political BRfoners. r Complete freedom of speaking and writing. writ-ing. Released prisoners must not be pun-Ftohed. pun-Ftohed. C Strikes at the imperial wharves at Cux-Pkn Cux-Pkn ana- Wilhelmshaven are expected j toKv.ir today, the agency advices from I jrfnste.'dam add. The authorities have I . ordered the preventive arrest of sailors Sf. under suspicion. IT The following points were passed by the council: First Secretary Hausmann will take care that the demands of the workmen and soldiers' council shall be forwarded to the reiehstag. Second The immediate cessation of all military measures directed against the movements of the council. Third The navy has been ordered to leave the harbor. Fourth Military prisoners to be released. re-leased. Hoisted Red Flag. LONDON, Wednesday. Nov. 6- Members Mem-bers of the battleship Kaiser at Kiel have mutinied and hoisted the red flag. Officers Of-ficers attempting to defend the German flag; were overpowered and two of them, including the commander, were killed. A number of others were wounded, according ac-cording to the Cologne Gazette. Three companies of infantry, sent from Kiel to restore order, joined the revolution revolu-tion and a fourth company was disarmed. dis-armed. Last night Hussars sent to Kiel from Wandsbeck were encountered outside out-side of Kiel and forced to turn back. The soldiers' council has decided that all officers must remain at their present ; posts, but must obey the council, which controls all food supplies. Machine guns are in otm ted in various parts of the city. Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven Wil-helmshaven are quiet An Amsterdam dispatch to . the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company says that two battleships, the Kaiser and the Schles-wig-HoIstein, were seized by the, mutineers muti-neers and that twenty officers, including two captains, were killed. It is reported the garrison at Kiel refused re-fused to march to the harbor, and that the sailors threatened to blow up the battleships If attacked. They are defending de-fending the ships and refuse to return to their duties until a Ireuty of peace is signed. Admiral Souchon. governor of the port, has approved all demands of the mutineers, it is reported. |
