The New York Evening San has published a lurid account
of a German naval mutiny at Wilhohnshaven on July 30th. It purports to be the story of a German naval Lieutenant, Glatfelder by name,. who says that he was one of the "Central Terrorist Committee" whic's planned the rising. Glatfelder alleges that the first mutiny vecurred on the "death ferry" which takes hundreds of corpses daily from the military hospitals for burial at sea. Tho Captain was thrown overboard. On July 30th the sailors and marines were formed up on parade to listen to Government orators. An altercation between an Admiral and a sailor led to a riot, in which all the officers present were killed. The rioters then set the Zeppelin sheds on fire and attacked the forts. The crew of the arsenal battery joined them and fired on the forts until their shells were exhausted. Troops had by this time arrived and the mutiny was suppressed. It is ,a picturesque tale, but the Evening Sun wisely :foes not guarantee its -truth. All that we know is that there has been disaffection among the German sailors, caused, no doubt, by their prolonged detention in port and the growing scarcity of food.
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