Heavens above! but the terms are crushing!
All the U-boats to be surrendered, the High Seas Fleet interned; why not say "surrendered" straight out, it will come to that, unless we blow them up in German ports.
The end of Kaiserdom has come; we are virtually a republic; it is all like a dream.
We have signed, and the last shot of the world-war has been fired.
Here everything is confusion; the saner elements are trying to keep order, the roughs are going round the dockyard and ships, looting freely.
"Better we should steal them than the English," and "There is no Government, so all is free," are two of their cries.
There has been a little shooting in the streets, and it is not safe for officers to move about in uniform, though, on the whole, I have experienced little difficulty.
I was summoned to-day before the Local Council, which is run by a man who was a Petty Officer of signals in the König. He recognized me and looked away.
I was instructed to take U.122 over to Harwich for surrender to the English.