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Show TRAITORS PUT THE PENALTY Plot to Paralyze German Fleet Meets Quick j Retribution. TO FORCE PEACE Principal Agitator Conferred Con-ferred With Socialists in Reichstag. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 10. A mutiny among the crews of four battleships of the German fleet has occurred at Wil-helmshaven. Wil-helmshaven. One of these battleships was the Westfalen whose captain was thrown overboard and drowned. The crews landed. Marines refused to fire on them, whereupon soldiers surrounded surround-ed the sailors who surrendered. A mutiny also is reported on the German Ger-man warship Nurenberg, which was at sea. The men seized the officers : and proceeded into the direction of Norway with the intention of being in-Itcrned. in-Itcrned. The Nurenberg was overtaken overtak-en by destroyers and for.ced to surrender. surren-der. Empercr William went to Wilhelms-! Wilhelms-! haven and ordered that one out of every seven mutineers be shot. Chancellor Chan-cellor Michaclis protested, with the result re-sult that only three were shot. Sentences aggregating 200 ears penal pen-al servitude were imposed on the others. oth-ers. One of tho reasons for the mutiny mu-tiny was bad and inadequate food. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 10 In announcing an-nouncing to the reichstag yesterday that a plot had been discovered in the German navy to paralyze tho fleet, Ylce Admiral von Capelle. the minister minis-ter of marine, Is quoted in a Berlin dispatch as spying: "It Is unfortunately a sad fact that the Russian revolution turned the heads of some persons in our navy and introduced revolutionary Ideas among them. Their insensate plan was to recruit representatives on all the ships to cause the crews to refuse to obej orders, to paralyze the fleet and force peace upon the country. "It Is proved that the principal agitator conferred In this building with the independent Socialist faction in the reichstag, explained bis plans to Deputies Haase and Yogtherr and obtained their approval. "I cannot mako a statement here on the subsequent events which occurred oc-curred in the navy. The few persons who forgot their honor and their duty suffered the penalty " |