The New York Times/1918/11/11/More Warships Join the Reds
MORE WARSHIPS JOIN THE REDS.
Four Dreadnoughts in Kiel Espouse the Revolutionary Cause.
GUARDSHIPS ALSO GO OVER
Those Protecting Mines in the Great Belt and the Baltic Abandon Their Posts.
LONDON, Nov. 10.—The crews of the German dreadnoughts Posen, Ostfriesland, Nassau, and Oldenburg, in Kiel Harbor, have joined the revolution, says a Copenhagen dispatch. Marines occupied the lock gates at Ostmoor and fought down a coast artillery division which offered resistance.
According to the British Wireless Service three German destroyers have anchored outside of Stockholm. All the guardships in the Baltic, it is said, have joined the revolutionary movement.
Six more cruisers flying the red flag arrived at Hamburg last night, says a Wolff News Agency dispatch received in Copenhagen.
An Amsterdam dispatch states that the Berlin Vossische Zeitung and Vorwärts confirm the fact that the inception of the revolution at Kiel was mistaken for the idea that a cruise had been ordered and that it was intended to give battle to the British fleet.
Up to Friday night the number of persons killed at Kiel was twenty-eight, according to information re- ceived here. The majority of these were officers.
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COPENHAGEN, Nov. 8.—Specials to the Koebenhavn report events in Schleswig-Holstein: The cruiser schoolship Schlesien arrived at the Danish town of Marstal on the Island of Aeror, a fugitive from the red fleet, but pretending to lack fresh water. Two warships from the rebellion are watching the ship, evidently wanting to catch it. But the crew prefer to stay at Marstal.
From Toender it is reported that soldiers have taken possession of arms and ammunition. Similar reports come from Rensburg, Eckernfoerde, Flensborg, Aavenran, Soenderborg and HAderslev, where the railway stations, and from Sonderborg, where the marine station is in their power.
Flensborg reports say that the Captain of the Koenig was shot on board his warship when trying to hoist the German war flag.
According to an official Danish communication the Danish cruiser Geyser is stationed at Koldingfjord and the cuiser Heimdal is off Fasborg. The guards at the frontier of Schleswig have been strengthened.
Ships guarding the mine fields in the Baltic and south of the Danish Islands have been withdrawn. Sailors forced their officers to obedience and hoisted the red flag.