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Show ! ALLIED FLEET CAPTURES VENEZUELAN VESSELS I La Guayra, . Dec. Id Ten German and- .four British cutters: cap- tured the Venezuelan fleet yesterday. They went alongside the Vene- -f : zuelan vessls and ordered them to surrender, and, without a shot being -f j fired, the British and German forces seized the vessels in the name of -f ( the German emperor and the king of England. Two of the five vessels, I which were undergoing repairs, were broken up. The German cruiser -f s - Panther steamed into the harbor during these proceedings with her decks -f I v cleared for action. The Venezuelan steamers were taken outside the -f harbor, and at 2 o'clock this morning the General Crespo, Tutmo and -f "" Margarita were sunk. I The Ossun was the only vessel spared, in view of the protest made i by the French charge d'affaires, H. Quievreux, who notified the com- modore of the allied licet that the Ossun is the property of a Frenchman., -f GERMAN SAILORS LANDED. At 10:30 last night 130 German sailors were , landed and proceeded to ("ardonel, a suburb of La Guayra, in which is situated the residence t I of German Consul Lentz, who, with his family,, was escorted to La Guayra and placed on board the warship Vineta. On their way back -f s to this port the German sailors met a party of Venezuelan soldiers, but j no collision took place. i At 5 o'clock this morning a landing party of British seamen went to ' the British consulate and conducted the British consul, R. Shunck, and his familv on board the Retribution. The German and British residents at La Guavra have all been arrested, with the exception of Messrs. -f 1 "- FMdwich. Prince and Lepage, the English directors of the harbor corpo- -f j ration, who barricaded themselves in their houses. Fieldwich, Prince I and Lepage were rescued by the forces of the allied powers, and have f been taken on board the Retribution. - The Englishmen's houses were surrounded by Venezuelan policemen, -t-; but when a 'party of 3l!0 sailors was landed at 5 o'clock in the afternoon -f i and inarched to their relief, the policemen made no resistance, and the -f ' inmates were conducted to the Retribution without trouble. -f SHIPS CLEARED FOR ACTION. i The British and German warships, however, in the meantime, had 5 cleared for action. ,,. , . ',.'.-. i No one here can explain the action of the allied powers in taking -t- action without giving Venezuela time to reply to their note. The British -f-s I'TtKdo boat destroyer Quail arrived here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The Germ-n cruiser' Panther left this morning in the direction of Car- -t- i upano, and the German cruiser Falkc has sailed for Puero Cabello on a i search for the remainder of the Venezuelan fleet. It is believed that the I cruiser Indefatigable is on her way to the seaport of Guanta. province -t- -f Barcelona, where the Venezuelan gunboat Restaurador is now lying. : Troons are expected here from Caracas, as the government is cred- - I itcd with the intention of repulsing any landing by the allied forces. I All the "tores and banks here are closed. Great excitement prevails, I as the- population fears the town may be shelled or other action taken I 1 y the Anglo-German vessels tonight. , . . T. |