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Show 0GRA1ANS MIX WITH HAIHGNS t GUNBOAT SENT TO THE BOTTOM IN THE HAHBOn OF GONAIVES. 1 he VeMel llelnnueil In llm KevohiltonlMi hiiiI IIhiI lliTeiitl(felxr(l h Meitmer of Hie llunilitir,; Ameru-Hii I'Mikel Co, The gunhoal Crote-ii-Plorrol, whlcll was In the service of tlie Firuilnist ourty, has been sunk at the entrance of the harbor of (ionulvcs by the Oerinan gunboat Panther. The crew left tho vessel before she went down. The (Jerman gunboat Panther reached Port au Prince September A. It wits announced ftom Cape llnltlen on September Sep-tember 3 thut the Oermttn steamer Markomuuiiia, Captain Hansen, belonging belong-ing to the Hitinburg-Amerlcau Pueke't company, having ou board arms and ammunition sent hy the provisional government to Capu Haltleu, had bcn (topped Sept. 3 by the Firuilnist gunboat gun-boat Crete-a-Plerrot at the entruuee of the harbor of Cape Haltlen, and that an armed force sent ou board the steamer from the gnnboat took possession posses-sion of the war munitions In spite of the protestations of Captain lluuseti und tho German consul. The Crote-u-l'lerrot was a steel screw vessel of 050 tous displacement. She wus urmed with one 0.7-incli disc, ono 4.7-lncli, four 3. (Much, two Maxim machine guns and four Nordeufeldt machine gnus. Tho Panther Is a steel cruiser of 097 tons. She was built at Dunzig In 1001 ond is 200 feet long. She Is armed with six 3.4-lnch.qulck-flrlng guns, six l.-l-lncli and twoiitchlno guns.. The Punthcr left (lennany July U, for the Caribbean sea. The crew tf. he '.'roto-a-Plcrrot left Hint vessel amid great disorder. At the end of fifteen minutes the Panther sent u small boat, carrying ono olllcer and twenty sailors, who were to take possession of the Firmtnist gunboat, When these men had arrived at a point ubout twenty yards from the Creto-a-Pierrot, flames were seen to break out on board of her. Shu had been llrcd by her crew before they left her. The Panther then fired on the vessel until she wus completely immersed. Thirty shots all told were fired. |