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Sunday 4 December 2011

The mutiny within the Austrian-Hungarian navy according to the Dutch newspaper Het Volk daily edition dated 28 August 1918

Just like Germany went the First World War disastrous for the Austrian-Hungarian empire and were both navies the scene of mutinies by crews of the warships. The Havas press association send a telegram dealing with such a mutiny using the newspaper Zuricher Volksrecht. According to this newspaper mutinied Austrian sailors in the harbours of Pola and Sebenico. In 1917 were all ready small uprisings under sailors in Dalmatia and Croatia caused by their bad treatment with the first one in February. A more uprising found place at Pola and Cattaro in which some officers were killed and the commanding officer of the St. George (1) taken prisoner by the mutineers. Just after a fight of 24 hours with the gendarme and coastal batteries were the mutineers convinced that some of their demands were accepted. Their leaders were arrested and were to appear within short time for the court-martial at Cattaro.

Note
1. This must be the armoured cruiser Sankt George launched on 8 December 1903, after the war handed over to England, sold to Italy and finally broken up around 1920.