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Show EVELYN NOT IN HE ZONEWHmilUP Commander Gherardi Says Ship Was Following Course Germany Sanctioned. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Fob. 27. Tho Amrr. ican steamship Evelyn, Mink re:rntly in the North sea, was witbiu tint Mrip 01 water otf the Dutch coat whii-h Germany Ger-many hns declared oaf e for nent rn I shipping. Tii is was assert :ii nod today bv officials of th navy department cm receipt of ti oablcram i'ro:n Commander Com-mander Gherardi, naval attache at i'--'r-lin, yivin the cxat location of the ship when struck. Commander G herardi 's yo 1 1 ion w as g-tven out a -o3 dryreea fJ minute: north, fl dc-sjTees 7 minutes ea--t. This :da-e is pixty rr.ilcs northwe-t of Borkum island and out twenty-live n-.Uvg directly off the Irtiteh roac It wan. therefore, five miles within the utrip rle-dared rle-dared Fate bv the German authrritie. It is apparent, nlso, ao curding to officers of-ficers of the navy department, that the Fvelyn was directly on her roi:re to Breui-n. The receipt of the position ot ithe Fvelyn nl?o dicpostis of tiio theory that dieV-ruck orie nf the miiie-t plai-fd for the detVnff of the fW-'man e.a-t r i the eoa.-.t of borhum island. Officials here regard it ns hardly likelv that there would be deten-e in i no at unci, a di- tanee from th3 German shore. Alfhonh the water at the point r.hrrp the Kvelyn ft nick is fhalhiw. brin' probably not over 10H feet d'ep, it i not too shnllow to permit the op. raGou of !ibinariii's, mo the receipt of the vei. sel poaitifn floes not- diipoii' of th" possibility that phe ''arut t f an end in tii at way. The tendency in the navy department, however, is to believe that iho strnrk a mine, but whether one which had been floated frnni its moor- I idrb or one from a number Rtrewn i promisrnonnly over tho North sea it H impossible to say. ' Tho belief at the raw depnrtmTt ! is- t.hfit the German porernnient, if it ;s established that the Kvelyn was sunk j by one of her mines, will enmpeimafe1 the owners of tho vessel handsomely. Although the navy depn rtnv nt. in ;ts inst ni"t ions to marinerB, irives f h n ail the information it oon obtain as to nn.fe routes for neutral ye-iseU intended for Crerman porli. it is admitt'-fl by the nfcials of tli1 de?iartment (hernsclvcs that, thev ran liardly sav jur-t where in the North s'-a a lo'ntml nhip will le pfife nnd where it. will be in danger. As one hi'h off! rial put. it todav: "What the Knt'lish sny i vife territory terri-tory the rierTTin ns sa v is nnsa ff ; nnd what the Germans niv sate tlie Kn Irtish Ir-tish Hiv in unsafe. The bet wo ran do ih to ffive the mariners the full nailing directions issued bv each covernnient. " |