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Show BRITISH REPORT ON NAVAL BATTLE London Nov. 5. 1:20 a m The admiralty ad-miralty has issued a statement in which it aays it has received from German sources details of a naval en gagement off the Chilean toast n whlrh the British cruiser Monmouth was sunk and the cruiser Good Elope severely damaged. The statement says the admiralty has no confirmation confirma-tion of the report. The statement was issued through the official press bureau In the nam of the secretary of the admiralty an I sa ys : "The admiralty cannot accept the facts gi en in dispatches as accurate at present for the battleship Cano-PUB, Cano-PUB, which was specially sent to strengthen Rear Admiral Cradock's j squadron and which would have giv-en giv-en him a decided superiority v. as no mentioned in them Further, although al-though five Herman ships concentrated concentra-ted In Chilean waters only three tered Valparaiso harbor. "It U possible therefore, that when the full account of the ac tion Is received re-ceived it may considerably modify the German version Effective me: ure3 have been taken to deal with the situation In any event." |