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Show SUSPECT RAIDS AT SEA AREJLANNED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE CONCERNED OVER DEPARTURE OF SEAGOING MOTOR BOATS. Belief Held That Wealthy Mexicans are Financing Filibustering Expedition Expedi-tion and That Small Boats are to Carry Arms for Raiding. "Washington. A tangled skein of circumstances cir-cumstances is perplexing officials here, pointing either to an institution of a new commerce raiding campaign by Germans ii the Carribean sea, or the beginning of a series of filibustering expeditions ex-peditions against Mexico. (The justice, navy and state departments have worked on the mystery several weeks, without result. The departure of several seagoing motor boats, the escape of German warrant officers interned at Norfolk and the mysterious movements of several sev-eral American yachts in the Gulf of. Mexico have baffled not only officials of the "Washington government, who are anxious to .prevent violations of neutrality through use of American territory as a base of naval operations, but also agents of the British government, govern-ment, who (ear a commerce raiding campaign is about to be begun against the tank steamers which carry oil from Mexican ports for use of the British navy. Officials have two theories as to the meaning of this series of happenings. One is that wealthy Mexicans in the United States are financing filibustering filibuster-ing expeditions that have some connections con-nections with the raids in the vicinity of Brownsville, Texas, and the other is that small boats putting out from the United States are being met at sea and armed with guns of medium caliber cali-ber for raiding purposes. |
