Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-28 | Page 1 | German Cruiser on Trade Route

GERMAN CRUISER I ON TRADE ROUTE tHG HrB Japanese Liner Brings News HB That Germans Are Patrol- KB ling Between Puget WB Sound and Orient. En STORY IS DISBELIEVED BB Messages From South Ameri- Efj ca Report British Squadron iHyP Steaming North. iEB Tacoma. Wash., Nov. 28. That H three German cruisers which had BySr been operating off the coast of South S&sl Vmerics had changed their base to Bifffc the Aleutian Islands an;! were patrol- Bgmi ling the trade route between Puget BvPa Sound and the Orient was the report KPtr brought today by the Japanese liner Hg&S Tacoma Maru in port from Yoko- ha ma. Hk1! While crossing the Pacific the Ta- cc.ma Maru received a wireless dis- H patch from the Chicago Maru, west bound, stating that German warships 'Bel were In the area between the 108th s and 100th meridians. The Chicago Hf? Maru reported that she had altered iKr ' her course to avoid capture. Pre- Hsul cautions were taken aboard the Ta- ' cuiiK) Maru which for three nights K ' proceeded without a light showing. This news of the alleged presence wti Ol German warships In northern wa- Rfi ! ters Is given little credence here. Since the outbreak of the war there Hp.' has been more or less hysteria In Bp,, shipping circles and war craft of va- m:-'f nous nations have frequently been Rtf- ;.iported in widely separated parts of B' the Pacific ocean. Buenos Aires, Nov 28 A dispatch W?, received here from Montevideo savs that a squadron of ten British war- i.hlps has been sighted 300 miles flfjl from Montevideo The direction in Bffi? Which these ships were proceeding i3 Bv) vo' given. EL- Lima. Peru. Nov 28. -A telegrom received here from lquique Chile, , aya that four warships, nationality unknown, have been seen off tho ( hlleah coast teaming north