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country to mitigate the sufferIngs of
the victims of the disaster. Regard
ing the situation in Samoa, he said
that the report Of the German officer
in command there did not show that
the lives or property of Europeans
were endangered. He was sure that
the British warship CaIliOpe would
not have left Samoa if the position
had been critical
Emperor William was deeply
moved by the news of the Samoan
disaster. He Immediately tele-
graphed to Prince Henry and after
ward conferred with Count Won
MOltke, Prince Bismarck and others
The Emperor later issued an order
of sympathy for the loss and conf
dence in the devotion of the navy.
German officials say an easy ad
justment relative to the positions Of
the three powers on the Samoan
question is possible if the American
Commissioners are empowered to
assent to some form Of compensation
for native Outrages on the Germans.
The Brooklyn in Distress.
The arrival at Pensacola of the
British steamship Falshaw from
Cape Verde, brought information Of
meeting the United States war-ship
Brooklyn IN midsea flying signals of
distress, she being disabled and
short Of provisions. This was on
March Goth in latitude % deg. AZ
min. north, longitude 60 deg. 81
min. west. Lieutenant Heald said
she had broken her main shaft, and
that the rest of her machinery was
out of order. A liberal portion Of
the Falshaw's stores were sent over
to the American man-Of-war. The
Brooklyn had been disabled for
long time, was proceeding under sail
from Honolulu to New York and had
been at that time 1877 days at sea.
During the passage the Brooklyn
encountered three heavy gales; one
lasted three days. The American
officers, upon invitation of Captain
Bennett, accepted the hospit atty of
the ship. THE Brooklyn was dis
abled before leaving Honolulu
Your Correspondent.
The New German Fleet.
The German vessels Sperber and
Alexandrine are now on their way to
Samoa. The corvette Alexandrine
is wood, iron and steel, of 2,373 tons
burden. She is of fifteen knots
speed. Her battery is made up Of
twelve 5a-inch four-ton breech-load-
ing rifles, two 3a-inch breech-loading
rifles, four revolving cannon and
torpedo tube and equipment.
The Sperber is a new cruiser of
composite type, 1,120 tons burden, of
fourteen and a half knots speed ard
armed with rifed 495-inch Krupp,
four HOtchkiss revolving cannon and
two torpedo tubes. Neither of the
vessels is armored, but their speed is
about SO per cent greater than the
American vessels ordered to Samoa
and their guns are OF greater range.
which sailed from Zanzibar for
Samoa, is another fine ship, superior
to either the Richmond, Adams or
Alert, which will constitute the
American squadron at Samoa. She
is of the composite type, of fourteen
knots speed, 1920 tons burden, and
carries eight inch and two 3aa-inch
rifles and four machine guns with
torpedo outfit. She uses the forced
draft, which engineer experts here
think contributed largely to the es-
cape of the English war vessel CALI
ope, as it enables a vessel to get up
steam in a short time.
The German naval authorities
have ordered the cruiser Habicht
and the gunboat Wolf to be put in
readiness at once to proceed to
Samoa.
Diplomatic Items.
The American Commissioners to
the Berlin Conference will sail by
the Umbria on the 18th inst.
Klein was twice summoned by the
State Department to testify Of out
RACES committed by Germans while
he was at Apia. He contradicted
charges against himself, of taking
part in the war, and submitted aft
davits by himself and three of Mata-
afa's warriors.
Bismarck cabled in cipher to the
German Minister at Washington, for
prompt information regarding ships
and men to be sent to Samoa by the
United States, how their dispatch
Will 1cdNS buS AlASIlCdu udN, III OUuC1
parts, and the condition of vessels
now under construction.
America Getting Ready.
Secretary Tracy has issued orders
for the Richmond, at La Platte
River, South America, the Alert, at
Honolulu, and the Adams, at San
Francisco, to be made ready and
started for Samoa at once. It is ex-
pected the Alert will reach Samoa in !
May. The Adams can be got off in |
two or three weeks. The Richmond |
has to go round Cape Horn.
The old Richmond is by far the !
largest of the vessels that will go
down. She was built at Norfolk in |
1858, and is of 2,70O tons burden, 225 |
feet long, AZ feet 6 inches beam and !
Is feet inches draft. Her speed is
set down at nine and a half knots
when in trim, but she is doubtless
foul and consequently much reduced
in speed by her stay in South At
lantic waters. She is commanded
by Captain A. V. Reed, with Lieut.
enant Commander Louis Kingsley,
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