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Show GERMAN FLEET IN I SOUTHATLANTIC Powerful British Fleet Said to Be Close By Steamers Loading at Montevideo. OTHER WARSHIPS SEEN Three Japanese and One English Eng-lish Warship With Colliers Seen in Pacific Waters. Buenos Aires.. Argentina. Nov. 30. Dispatches received here from Montevideo Monte-video insist there is good reason to believe that the German squadron which has been operating in the Pacific Pa-cific ocean, is at present in the South Atlantic. Neither the French nor the British legation here has any information in-formation to confirm these reports, nevertheless private dispatches give them credence. It is related among other things that several German steamers are preparing to leave Mon tevideo to provision the German warships. war-ships. Reports tht the German Pacific squadron has succeeded in making Its wayr to the Atlantic have been current for two days. Under date of November Novem-ber 2S. Montevideo reported that the German squadron had been sighted 600 miles north of Punta Pilar, Brazil, Bra-zil, bearing northeast Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov 30 The recent reports that the German fleet Is now in the South Atlantic appear to have been confirmed here today. It is also rumored that a powerful British fleet is nearby Interruption of British shipping ami lll" 1 1 1 1 w I i t ill- Ul iii'lllJ.ili UIOIVIUUIl ships with supplies were nccepted here as confirmatory of reports of the approach of the German fleet, which is now believed to bo off the mouth Of the river Pfata. The Cerman steamer Pat-'gonia ' being loaded here with provisions, the 9ierrs Cordoba with coal and the Mora Mo-ra with coal and water. Sailings of British steamers from Montevideo and the Brazilian port of Santos have been suspended Marine records show that the Sierra Cordoba was at Montevideo on November No-vember L'2. The Mera reached thai port on September 8 since which time there has been no report from her The latest record of the Patagonia Is her arrival on October L'2 at Tener- j i (To, Canary islands British and Japanese Warships Sighted San Francisco Nov. 30 Three Japanese Jap-anese and one British warship and two Japanese colliers were sighted off Magdalene bay, Lower California, last Monday by the American freighter freight-er V.zteC, now in port here from Iqui-que. Iqui-que. Chile The British light cruiser New Castle a sister ship of the Glasgow, and the Japanese cruiser Idzumo, both of which have long been patrolling the Pacific coast, were recognized but .mother Japanese cruiser and a Japanese Jap-anese battleship were unfamiliar to the Aztec's officers. Probablv these vessels were the battleship' Hizen and the cruiser Asa-ma Asa-ma which coaled and left Honolulu as 'soon as the German gunboat Geier in-' in-' terned there. The understanding in the Japanese colony o the islands I at that time was thai the Hizen and lAsama were hound for the South A aiencan west coast |
