Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — GERMAN NAVY CONTINUES WAR [ARTICLE]
GERMAN NAVY CONTINUES WAR
Cails Armistice Unjust aad <Shll« otf the Sailors to Defend Their Country,! London, Nov. 12. —The German rev® lutlonarr council in command of thl German fleet* denouncing the armjf| Uee terms as “unjust, particularly me continuation of the blockade, has sunF moned all sailors “to defend the counj try.” It has ordered all submarines in thq Baltic to assemble immediately in the harbor of Sassnitz, on the east of the island of Reugen. The German order was intercepted by the British admiralty wireless and was given out hero. It was sent by “command and sailors’ council,” which appears to have headquarters on the German battleship Strassburg. The or* der reads as follows: “To all ships, destroyers and sub* marines in the North sea and Baltic: • •"The enemy terms are unjust TIM blockade of the German people, in dm fence of international law, continues. “German comrades! Defend you! country again-: such unheard-of pre? sumption! A strong English force U off Shaw. “AB submarines in the Baltic ark to assemble immediately in the harbol of Sassnitz.”
