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Show brazil navy to i help raid huns? I New York, Dec. 3. The dispatch I of six Brazilian warships to European I waters, exclusively reported by the Jjijnternatlonal News Service staff cor respondent at Mo de Janeiro, has been discussed between the Brazilian and entente governments ever since Brazil's declaration of war on Germany Ger-many last month. It was not expected, however, that plans in that direction would ripen I so swiftly aud the news from the I Brazilian capital may be taken to bear out recent reports of the allied al-lied powers determination to launch n sea attack on Germany, Brazil's action presumably Is the first Immediate result of the Interallied Inter-allied conference ut Paris, at which the southern republic Is represented by Its minister to France, Senior Antonio An-tonio Olyntre. Hy sending her six best .naval units un-its to European waters to aid the allied fleets, Brazil Is virtually stripping strip-ping herself of her main naval power. pow-er. An American squadron under command of Admiral Caperton is now In South American waters. ' n |