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Show PARTS OF BRITISH VESSELARE FOUND May Have Been Discarded When Cruiser Rainbow j Cleared for Action SAN FRA CISCO Aug 11 Flotsam cast up today on the chore south of the Golden Gate and the presence outside the heads of a German cruiser standing on and off proved either that a British warship 1 ad c eared In haste for action or that she had been torn by an ex plosion. f There was evidence to support e ther ! theory but the definitely established fact , that the British protected cru ser Rain bow now in the service of the Domin on ot Canada, did clear for action when she left here ear y last Saturday seemed to outweigh the roost positive opinion of those who critically examined the wreck age. Brass doorplates stamped gunner and navigating officer proved that the de oris had come from a t British warsh p The badly splintered cond tlon of the woodwork and the twisted and tang ed metal f ttings attached to It, together with the fact that nowhere could be found any marks of 1 ammer chisel or crowbar made those who viewed it posl live that It had been torn loose by an explos on On the other hand came word from the Canadian naval station at Esquima t that the Rainbow was known to have cleared for action. Captain Grenbach of the 1 fe saving station near which the fragments w ere found remembered that about 2 o clock In the morn ng tbe Rainbow had laid to outside the harbor just after passing out She might have been strip ping her hull of Inflammable wood word then. If an explos on the e was It cou d not ha e been on board the Rainbow for she was sighted ast night off Cape Men doclno 19o miles north of here. Those who clung to the exp os on theory argued that the s oop of war Shearwater had been in trouble. The only other Brit sh vessel in Pacif c coast waters is the s oop of war Algerine last reported at Mazat an The Shearwater left San D eDo August 3 The German cru ser standing off this harbor was ldentlf ed today by the Amer lean bark RPR thet as the Leipzig The tark passed near enough to make the name c early legible. The captain of the bark RPR thet a so reported that he had passed a mass I of wTeckage float ng several mi es off the ha bor en ranee. This It Is bel eved is from tl e same essel as that cast up on the beach soutl of the Go den Gate last j n ght and today Offlcia s of the Po nt Bonlta 1 fe saving stat on reported that no j w eckage had been washed ashore for several m es up tbe north coast. |