Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-02-08 | Page 2 | Mutineers Aboard Dutch War Vessel Threaten to Fire upon Pursuers

Mutineers Aboard Dutch War Vessel Threaten to Fire Upon Pursuers IB CaMea rreeal AMSTERDAM, Feb. S Mutineers board the Dutch cruiser De Zeven Provincleu threatened today to fir on a pursuing government vessel a tha blxarra chaM ot th crulaar Continued Con-tinued through tha aoutb sess, re-; porta received bara said. Dutch airplanss wara instructed to warn tha mutlnaari to laava the cruiaar In boat. Otherwise, tha crulaar would ba borabad with gas bom be, tha planaa wsrnsd, raporta from Sourabaya ssid. Tha mutlnaara and thalr pursuers communicated by wlralaaa. Tha government vessel Erldamis, whioh li not a warship, waa ssid to hava dropped back to a aaa dts-tanoa dts-tanoa after tha mutlnacra thraatanad to lira. Wsrshlps ol tha East Indies fledt wara rushing toward Sourabaya In, the-hope of heading oft tha cruiser , before it could rtach that port, wbara aoina 400 native enlisted man ara undar arrest tor demonstre-Uona demonstre-Uona protesting agalnat racant pay cuts. Forms Pramiar Colyn aald In an Interview that tha crulaar "ought to ba torpedoed." Government officials wara dlaturbad by raporta that agitator agi-tator wara taking advanuga ot the Da Zeven Provtncien mutiny in other Dutch colonies. Two natives wara reported killed t Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, and several wounded when police dispersed dis-persed a demonstration which had been addressed by communist agitators. agita-tors. Tha government aaid, however, how-ever, that evidences of communist activities In tha mutiny had not been definitely established. Dutch sesmea replaced natives aboard government vessels and war-ships war-ships sent to intercept tha Da Zaven Provincial!.