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Show GERMANS HAD TO WITHDRAW. Attack Venezuelan Fort and Are Given Warm Reception. Tho German cruiser Panther shelled Fort San Cnrlos, at tho cntranco to Lako Maraculbo, Venezuela, Saturday, for ono hour. Tho fort returned the flro with four guns. Tho Panther withdrew with-drew in tho direction of Curacno. Fort San Carlos Is twenty-two miles from Maracalbo, und commands tho on. tranco to tho lake, or Inner bay. General Hello, tho commander ol tho fort, says: "Yesterday nftornoon nt 12:30, Fort San Carlos wns attack, ed and shelled without any provocn. tlon on our part, without previous no. tlflcntlon or tho delivering of an ultimatum, ulti-matum, by tho German cruiser Panther, Pan-ther, w ch tried to force tho entrance. After a fight lasting an hour, during which the fort iwcd only four guns, tho Panther wns obliged to abandon tho fight and retreated In tho direction direc-tion of Curacao. Tho fort suffered no damage, and only thrco men wero wounded." There havo been populnr demonstrations demon-strations In tho streets ns a result of the shelling of the fort. |