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Show MOMS SEEN IN ' M OCEAN American Commander Issues Warning for Ships to be on Lookout. SAN FRANCISCO, April 11. Warnings Warn-ings that German submarines are op- era ting in the Pacific were sent to all steamship captains at sea late today I by -wireless, by order of Lieutenant I Commander F. C. Woods of the I Twelfth naval district here. The warning said: "Information has this day been received re-ceived that German submarines are operating in the Pacific. Please notify noti-fy all ships under your control and aslt that they spread the warning broadcast." Instructions from the navy department depart-ment on which the warning was based said : "Get in touch at the earliest possible possi-ble moment with captains and masters of all merchant vessels operating in your district, especially off the coast, and at sea, and urge upon them the necessity of keeping a very bright lookout for German submarines and of reporting same immediately by radio ra-dio to the nearest radio station. Urge upon them the necessity of giving as much detailed information of locality where submarines are seen and any other data that will be of value to the naval forces in searching for these vessels " Where the submarines are operating was not disclosed. oo |