New York, Jan. 11.
German warships have been reported cruising about the equator, presumably wailing to escort the German merchantmen ordered to leave Brazilian ports, according to the Tio de Janeiro correspondent of the "Nev York Times."
Seven of the German vessels which have received "ultimatum" are ready. with cargoes of coffee, colton, ore. tobacco and beet—Reuter.
London, Jan. 11.
Attacks by German. aircraft on Jarmed merchantmen and defenceless ishing-boats are denounced in auth-Joritative quarters here.
Such methods of warfare, it is pointed out, "must make greater demands upon the conscience than the courage of the attackers, and it is hard to believe they can be anything but repugnant to the officers and men ordered to carry them out."
"Insistence on the presence' of armed patrol craft, which so often features {the communiques of the German High Command," it is added, "would sug. gest an unconvincing attempt to imart military flavour into an operation which suggests the calculated brutality and cowardice of a gunman, rather than the chivalry and courage of an Artillery Elements Active On West Front Paris, Jan, 11.
Both artillery and reconnaissance elements were active on the West Front yesterday, especially east and west of the Vosge River, a French War communique said last night "Aerial activity was resumed," on oth sides, the communique con-Uinued, and' several small areas were reconnaissanced.
German patrols were particularly se tive in the sectors where it is be-Hleved British troops are stationed. The French said all German raids were repulsed—United Press.
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