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Show GERMAN ANSWER-IN ANSWER-IN SEEBECK CASE SENT TO U. S. Hf-;i;f,I.V, Dec. fl. via London, 0:"0 a. in. , --Thi! German answer to Hie American Inquiry In-quiry regarding the Kinking of the Sec- : hck has been diHpn tclied to Washington, j The steamer Hrebeck. according to German Ger-man Information, h;ih steaming without lights or any Indication of its nationality In the immeillfLle vicinity of a. hostile naval port and there were no moans of dis! ingulshing U Irom an enemy war-hlp. war-hlp. Thfl foregoing prohnbly refers lo the I sinking of the vessel alluded to in a Off- i man admiralty statement of October 'JO last as "the armed British steamer S'e- 1 dt-k," sunk In t lie Mediterranean by a German submarine on October 12. It was! assumed that the British steamer Sebek, ! of 4 r,0 1 tons gross, built in West Ifarlle.-! pool in HK)D, was the vessel in question. |