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Show GE1WTEIESGI! TIE PACIJRC COAST SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 13. Information Informa-tion tending to support recent reports I ha t a German steamer had been plying along the Lower California coast for the supposed purpose of collecting and caching cach-ing supplies for a German raider was brought beret today by Captain D. K. Brandt of the schooner W. and K., which arrived from Magdalena bay. Captain Brandt said he was told by Enrique Flores, jefe politico of Magdalena Magda-lena bay, that early in December a steamer flying the German flag had entered en-tered the bay and remained more than twelve hours. The vessel, he was informed, in-formed, had one funnel and was equipped with wireless. Captain Brandt quotes Flores as saying that the latter believed tbe mysterious steamer entered Magdalena Magda-lena bay for the purpose of picking up a" number of sailors from the fleet of German sailing vessels warbound at Santa Rosalia, on the Gulf of California. At that time tiie British cruiser Rainbow Rain-bow was standing off Santa Rosalia, keeping watch over the German ships. Ten 'German vessels, which before tbe war were engaged in carrying copper ore from the French smelter at Santa Rosalia to Havre and Hamburg, are anchored in Santa Rosalia harbor. Reports have been received here that three .Japanese warships were sighted recently re-cently off Cape Sa n Eucas. at the extreme ex-treme tip of Lower California. |