When the enemy delegates, headed by Herr Erzberger, left Berlin
on Thursday week to meet Marshal Foch, Germany was seething with revolution. Before they started on their return journey on Monday the old order had been swept away. Tho revolution began in the Navy at Kiel last Sunday week. The sailors, embittered by harsh discipline and bad food and demoralized by the heavy losses sustained in the U '-boat warfare, heard that. the naval authorities designed to send out the Fleet for one last desperate blow at our Navy, which has crushed the life out of Germany by its relentless blockade. The sailors refused to throw away their lives in the mad adventure and mutinied. The revolt spread rapidly to the Baltic and North Sea ports. The naval station of Wilhelmshaven was sacked by mutineers on Tuesday week, and all the warships, with few exceptions, hoisted the red flag. Hamburg and Bremen were in revolt on Wednesday week ; in Bremen Herr Liebknecht, the extreme Socialist, who was released from gaol a few days before, rode the whirlwind. Simultaneously riots had broken out in Cologne and Westphalia among the half• starved and desperate munition workers, and the authorities were powerless to stay them.
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