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Show GERMAN CRUISER AIDS FEDERALS Mazatlan, Mexico. May 1 (via Casa Rlanca. Mexico, May 19, by wireless.) - -The conduct of the rnmmarider of the German cruiser Nurnberg, Captain Cap-tain von Shoenburg, threatened to drag Germany into the complicated situation on the west coast of Mexico. Mexi-co. This morning he deliberately interfered inter-fered with the constitutionalists when they opened fire on the federal ship Sinaloa as she was entering Mazatlan Mazat-lan harbor. He anchored his ship just where it interfered with the fire of the constitutionalists. He made the statement that If so much as one stray bullet from the constitutional-i.-t army struck his ship or one of iiis boats he would at once bomhard the revolutionists' position on Pie-dine Pie-dine island As the federal ship Sinaloa was entering the harbor today about 10 o'clock the revolutionists dragged a gun into position to shell it. Th American warship Iris had a boat going in to the beach at Mazatlan. Y'hcn the firing began the boat at once put back to tne ship Two American torpedo boat destroyers de-stroyers which were near the lire zone shifted their position so as not to interfere, but Captain Shoenburg had all his sail boats, numbering about seen maneuvering in the v; cinity of the Sinaloa and of the federal fed-eral steamer Limantour II, which is anchored close to the German cruiser. crui-ser. The revolutionists were compelled to hold their cannon lnv until the Sinaloa Sin-aloa was so far within the harbor as to be practical!; out of range Admiral Howard and his staff officers of-ficers are incensed over the behavior of the German. They consider thai he is forcing hifi way Into a Bltuatlon in which he is not concerned and 18 creating serious possibilities of intor-l national complications. |