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Show RUSH ORDER IS II GIVEN WARSHIPS r Three British Cruisers Sent Full Speed to Gulf of Mexico. Galveston Tex.. Aug. 27 An official offi-cial statement from the British con SUlate here today said three British warships have been sent at full speed to protect cotton and oil traffic in the (,ulf of Mexico The statement said: "It is rumored that the French cruiser crui-ser Conde has sunk the German ship Alliancla and the British cruiser Don egnl has captured the North German Lloyd steamship Brandenburg." Sending of the British ships to the cult 1h probably the result of reports of the presence of German warships in thoee waters. Several British tank steamers are engaged in the oi? trade between Mexico and the United States, asm I i a.4 Wsm i&frco I I I .tw |