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Show mm OF FORMER GEiffllP QUEER Vessel Under Portuguese Registry Twice Circles American Steamer. NEW YORK, Dee. 25. The nliu ers and crew of the American steamer Sucrosa, which arrived today from Tuxpani, Mexico, Mex-ico, were mystified by the pecnlia r Motions Mo-tions of a vessel encountered on the vov- I aqe, which they ideniliied as the I'ortu-I gnese steamer Faro nl' Jisbon, la-st re- j ported lea vine New Or fans December 1 I Tor Newport News and Gibraltar. The j Fa ro wa s formerly the ' rrna n stf v m -shin (iiiiatH, one of 1 ho ('..inmn esf is ' interned in l'nrtuanese ports at the out- j rrenk or" the war ;;nd Liter seized by the! Portuguese. I The Sue ros.i, her of t'crs said today.! em f'Uiitered tii 1"h to j 1 : s t at duslc L'e-j cemher 'S.i. a ho ut fixty milep M,utli of 1 Diamond Simula lilitship, which is oif : Cape. Haitras. I Siie .srea ined acrosp the Sucrosa lv.-. I thn, cir' line, crofted a.--:t' rn and di.-ap- j I peered in the darkness. Her lunnti v.;n ' ! not discernible then. Put the next day. ; I yesterday at noon, t'e sump steamer ap- ; j p'-;ired and repea.tfd tne perw.nn-nr'e. : : T:"d time the tin me "Faro, I.ishon,'" was; , dis! i nnishd on her si f rn. She- si f n mJ, fi'.v,iv southeast without si -n;; I r h 1 j v , ' mf.-'sae 1" explain her arinm, the Su-! cpiw'si of 'l-'ers said. Thf Faro is r'-Cis'red a? a pt 'p of; ,fi cross ton?, rornniand'.J h- t'aptain. Aamedo. |