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I have made a request to the Vojenský ústřední archives Praha (Military Central Archive in Prague) and to the Austrian State Archives, BKA - KA (ÖSTA Kriegsarchiv) concerning the photos published on Wikimedia in connection with the Cattaro Mutiny. Both archives have answered in the meantime. The Austrian archives informed me that unfortunately no information about the photos would be available there (letter dated 9 June 2020). The Czech archives wrote to me on 28 April 2020 that index cards with the photos were available there, whereby the descriptions recorded on the index cards would roughly follow those published by Veselý in 1958 (Jindřich Veselý: Povstání v Boce Kotorské. Historická kronika (Czech: Rebellion in the Bay of Kotor. Historical Chronicle). Prague 1958, appendix. Available online (April 10, 2020) as a PDF document with a different page count at [1].). However, from my point of view even these information are not fully reliable, because the Czech index card obviously contains greatly exaggerated to false information and Veselý does not indicate any sources.
To the photo available here (Pobuna_u_Boki_Kotorskoj.jpg) the description by Veselý reads: Kapitulace námořniku na "St. Georgu" 3. února 1918 ráno. Důstojnici znovu přejimaji moc. [Czech: Surrender of the sailors on "St. Georg" 3 February 1918 in the morning. Officers take power again].
The description in the Prague archives (summarized): The crew of the cruiser "St. George" gathered at the stern of the ship, after the expiration of the ultimatum on 3 February 1918 at 10 a.m. and released the imprisoned officers. In the middle of the meeting the commander of the cruiser, von Scheibenheim, spoke with the Germans and Hungarians standing next to him. The description also falsely states that the ultimatum had been issued by the German submarines and that one in ten had been chosen to be shot.
Conclusion: There is good reason to assume that the photo documents the surrender of the sailors aboard “SMS St. Georg”. But this is not certain, as there are no further sources available so far. In the articles using this photo, a corresponding remark should be given.
