Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 14.
With 60 tons of coffee, lard, cotton and grain aboard, the German freighter Uruguay (5,846 tons), slipped out of Pernambuco, Brazil, yesterday. She was the last to sail of ten German vessels lying there.
"At the same the Koenigsberg (6,468 tons), another German freighter, sailed from Belem, on the Amazon delta, but is reported to have stopped ister at Gaivota Island, some 70 miles down the estuary, presumably awaiting instructions from Germany.
The whereabouts of the La Coruna, 7,00-ton oil-burning German passenger ship, is unknown.
Rear Admiral Sir. Henry Harwood, in a statement to the press today, emphasized that H.M.S. Hawkins had not been involved in any incidents with enemy ships, thus ruling out the possibility that the cruiser could have been concerned in the scuttling of the German vessel Wolfsburg.
Tt is learned unofficially that the Hawkins will remain at Rio de Janeiro for 48 hours, instead of 28, as at first reported. The need for slight repairs to machinery is given as the reason.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.