The disaffection of certain officers in the Greek Navy developed
into open mutiny on Friday week, when Commander Typaldos, of the torpedo-boat flotilla, led an attack on the loyal part of the Fleet at Salamis. He had under him at first, according to the Times account, about three hundred num and twenty officers, but some of these fell away, and only two destroyers stood by him when the larger ships opened fire on him. One of his two destroyers wae hit by shells, and the crews of both destroyers then refused to continue the fight. The battleships fired too high to begin with, and then too low, and both the arsenal and the hospital at Salamis were injured by stray shots. Commander Typaldos and some of his officers and men escaped after dark, and the rest, who declared that they had been misled into thinking that they were taking part in a revolt of the whole Fleet, gave themselves up. The losses in the fight are said to have been six killed and five wounded. There is little doubt that Commander Typaldos had been deep in the confidence of the Military League, but in the mutiny he acted on his own initiative, and the Military, League mobilised a large body of troops to help in suppressing the rising. Commander TypaIdos and another mutinous officer have since been arrested near Athens. They were disguised as labourers, and allowed themselves tamely to be captured by gendarmes. It is said that the ringleaders will be tried before a Civil Court on a charge of political crime. This means that the death-penalty will not be exacted, which is perhaps as well in the circumstances, as Typaldos's acts were not different in kind from those of the Military League. Besides, the feeling of the country is incalculable, and a sort of Ferrer agitation over any one of the officers would be most inopportune.
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