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Show PUT IHE WIRELESS 0UT0FMMISS1 G D Smith, a British Sub-ject, Sub-ject, Tells of Experience on Board Mazatlan SN FKAlsCIbU) Oct 5 Rather than send a wireless mesa"o to the uerman cruiser . eipz g G D Smith a Brit sh 6 biect wrecked the wire less apparat s of the German Ire gut er Mazatlan lie told h s storj today to Rear dn ral Pond s permteudent ot the Twelfth United btates naval dis tnct . After m oh correspondence w tn Washington the Mazatlan w th 100 tons of coal aboard was finally permitted per-mitted to clear from San Francisco for Guavmas Mexico, August 13 under if "0 000 bond to del er the coal as od gned Two days later Captain Frederick Jebsen the owner who is a German reservist a German captain named Zur Helle and one Gustave Tranb were taken on at San Pedro Off the coast o lower California Bid Smth I was ordered to com mun cate w th the Leipz g I refused d was threatened with a beating To make good my refusal I then put the app. atus ont of conuniss on ' Sorth of Magdalena bay however we p ked np the Leipzig and trano ferred mail ana s orcb to hor The coal we carr ed to Guaymas, where it was ti"ansferred to the German steamship Mar e which in turn later coaled the Xeipzig Somehow the Brit sh cruiser ISew astle got wind of us and came cruis mg southward but the Liepzig gave her the slip The Mazatlan was formerly under the Mexican flag During the series of revolutions' in Mexico she was trans ferred for safety to German registry and when the European war broke out she aga n hoisted the Mexican flag Th coa she arr ed south wah ong mallv ons gneid to the Liepz g but 0 discover of that fact was declared to have been "sold to others for de- 1 erv at Guaymas LONDON Oct. 5 9 1" p m An of f cial n est gatton is being made regard d t e n o e ents of a number of vea se s wh cl left American ports carrying oal presun abl bound for porta which ha e not been r .ached While there is no dl po tion on the part of the British o ernment to queM on the efforts of the Kmer "an &o ernn nt to pre ent the -oa n of varsn p bv e&sels from Vmerian ports t is explained that every effo t s be ng made to forestall a repe ut on of e oa ins of the German : cruiser Karlsru e I |