OCR Text |
Show s BIO NAVAL BATTLE MAY BE OFF CHiLE iSc le ' be Fan Francisco, Nov 6 No further details of the naval engagement have been received. Closer reading of the jel cable message seemed to indicate that ,rn. Yayot wab not the name of a town ,nd off which the engagement was In 58c progress, but a code word which had been left blank of meaning In the linn's code book. An inquiry to the lirm't home office at London for a translation of Yayos had brought no answer late today dor TMf translation was subsiautiated ra'1 by the tact that the Peruvian town its- of Yauyos. first thought to have been by. Intended. Is some distance Inland and &ol- that It did not seem likely the Ger- 49c man squadron would have had time to reach the Peruvian coast In the short time since the first rngagemeut. the firm believed the battle was taking place somewhere off the coast A of Chile |