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Show GERMANS HAD TO WITHDRAW. Attack Venezuelan Fort and Are Given Warm Reception. The German cruiser Panther shelled Fort San Carlos, at the entrance to Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, Saturday, for one hour. The fort returned the Are with four guns. The Panther withdrew with-drew in the direction of Curacao. Fort San Carlos is twenty-two miles from Maracaibo, and commands the entrance en-trance to the lake, or inner bay. General Bello, the commander - of the fort, says: "Yesterday afternoon at 12:30, Fort San Carlos was attacked attack-ed and shelled without any provocation provoca-tion on our part, without previous notification no-tification or the delivering of an ultimatum, ulti-matum, by the German cruiser Panther, Pan-ther, which tried to force the entrance. After a fight lasting an hour, during which the fort used only four guns, the Panther was obliged to abandon the fight and retreated in the direction direc-tion of Curacao. The fort suffered no damage, and only three men were wounded." There have been popular demonstrations demon-strations in the streets as a result of the shelling of the fort. |