Show i BATTLESHIP FLEET cT OFF FOR MAGELLAN b Adm Admiral lal Evans Bids Farewell to toI 1 I Brazil and Continues Journey 0 ENTHUSIASTIC FAREWELL h- h Commander of Armada Denies pj ff i. i Report of Accident to Minnesota W t t. DY BY RICHARD J. J PAR hAnky BARKY lY I Special representative with the tile Pa Pa- chic fleet n Special Cable Jib Rio Hlo De Janeiro Jan 22 Ou On a day a I like raid August In Jn New ew York with a alight alight it I light breeze blowing across the tho hills bUh about the Guanabara ba I 0 bay the United states Slates I battleship fleet sailed at 3 7 i o'clock this afternoon W t 1 The hills about the harbor were I 9 crowded d with about halt half a million Brazilians as the ships steamed slowly 1 out in single file e escorted b by sL sixteen j r worships warships of the Brazilian xia navy I 5 t A thousand whistles soun sounded ed faret farewell fare fare- well as the armada a headed beaded towards the straits of Magellan Preceding the fleet about four miles was the German crul cruiser cr Bremen bound for COl uen s Ay res res Sho ho has been anchored I. I t. t j about yards from the Minnesota for Cor the last lait ten days daye The Tho fleet Hoet was ss-as ready to alI CC 6 hours ago but waited for Cor the arrival nl of ot tho the malls mails from the north and the carrying out of ot the tho official program ent Alfonso Ienna Penna of ot Brazil vl J the Minnesota and was received U by Admiral Thomas Admiral Evans E when the fleet sailed was seated in an armchair on the bridge or of tho the Con Con- Ho lIe has received no callers during the stay of oC the fleet here His Ills Illness Is only rheumatism aggravated ra by Ly the climate of oC the tho tropics Today roday ho he taId I 1 wish cm emphatically to den deny all aU reports of ot an nn accident to the or to the machinery of or the thu nI H The in UL me I men 11 twine I lIere has been lIeen fr J J exemplary vo we 0 now lion enter upon pon the ho PI most moot difficult part art of ot the cruise friends nfl nil and relatives should bo be heartily reas- reas SUZ that there Is Js le lean Ies P chanco chance of oC nc- nc to those upon neat Hoot than to lilii oil ito hajiM z ji f. f f L A- A 1 Ull Y ra Baron Daron 1 To lo minister min later ister of ot f foreign U 11 fl I today suld I C can 1 not hot any U circumstances un under which your ou country could go o to towar war nr but you OU may be assured that our friendship I In is real atM arid permanent In InThe Inthe the event ot or your country countr becoming In Involved In- In oln 11 In any serious difficulty I think It highly probable that Brazil would be ue willing to sell Hen you her hel three Dread Dread- now being built In England One will viiI be delivered 11 In Juno June and will equal I to an any battle battleship ht In th tho world 0 11 During ui u a iu cr cOln-cr conversation 1111 thu tho marine artist relative c to tho the discussion now going on in the tile navy he asserted that Admiral Brownson Brownson Brown Brown- I son sou did not Inspire his criticisms The genesis of Attack was In official and nud X professional records roe rec and there thel Is a great deal al of or sympathy sympathy sym sym- sympathy pathy with his IJo position In tho the fleet |