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SEE GERMAN CRUISER
OFF BRAZILIAN COAST

Mysterious Ship Seen in Several Places
Discharging Cargo Believed to
Be for Submarine Bases.

Buenos Aires,
Dec. 28.—Brazilian
papers received here are filled with
accounts of the movements of a German
cruiser off the Brazilian coast a
few weeks ago.

The newspapers assert that the mysterious
vessel was identified as a German,
and that it unloaded an immense cargo
of heavy cases at Cerqueira and Armacao.

Several days later the steamer returned
to Armacao with additional
cargo, which the newspaper accounts
say it is believed she received from a
larger ship out of sight of land. From
Armacao the vessel proceeded to Cal-
uro, where another portion of the
cargo was unloaded.

These ports are not guarded and it
is asserted that the cargoes
landed
were mysteriously smuggled
away.

Later the German vessel was sighted
close to shore at San Pedro de Madeira,
where two persons now are under
arrest, as a result of their relations
with the crew. They are charged
with being spies.

The newspapers say the ship disappeared
as mysteriously as she came
and that Brazilians believe she brought
supplies for a submarine base.