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Show HEAVY FIRING HEARD OFF PACIFIC COAST Eureka. Cal., Oct. 0. Heavy firing heard off the coast here this morning leads to the belief that a naval battle between some of the foreign cruisers patrolling the Pacific coast has taken place. The firing began shortly after 10 o'clock and continued for twenty minutes. The light keeper at Trinidad Trini-dad point, who plainly heard the detonations de-tonations from the heavy guns, reported report-ed to the chamber or commerce that the engagement, if such it was, took place about thirty miles from shore and that the ship's engaged could not be sighted from tho shore. The Japanese cruiser Idznma has been patrolling the California coast for some time, but no German cruisers cruis-ers have been sighted in this vicinity recently. |