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Show BRITISH FLEET SENT T0JEXIC0 Cruiser Squadron Given Peremptory Per-emptory Orders to Proceed to Vera Cruz. POWERFUL WARSHIPS j Formidable Assemblage of Twenty-two Fighting Machines Ma-chines in Mexican Waters Bridgetown Barbados, Nov 19 The British cruiser squadron in West Indian waters Jasf night received per emptory orders to proceed to Vera Cruz and the vessels sailed at mid night The British cruiser squadron consists con-sists of the three armored cruisers Suffolk. Lancaster and Berwick and Is commanded by Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Gradocock His flagship j Is tho Suffolk. j The three cruisers are of the same type, displacing 9800 tons each. They each carry an armament of fourteen six-Inch, eight 12-powder and three-' three-' pounder guns With the British cruisers. Suffolk, j Lancaster and Berwick, arrive at j Vera Cruz a very powerful fleet of warships will be assembled In the Mexican gulf The American battle-I battle-I ship Louisiana Michigan, Rhode Isl- and. Virginia, New Jersey, N'.-hraska land New Hampshire, the cruiser Ta-I Ta-I coma, the gunhoai Wheeling and the 'scout cruiser Chester, alone compose 1 a formidable squadron. To these bare been added the German cruisers Bremen and llertha and the French 'armored cruiser t'onde On the Pacific coast of Mexico are the American armored cruisers (all- forma. Maryland and Pittsburg and I the gunboat Annapolis The German cruiser Nuernberg Is al?o on that ile and the Japanese cruiser Izurao Is on the way there |