Germany’s Spies Believed to Know Fate of the Cyclops
Mass for Passenger on Missing Ship Mysteriously Advertised in Brazil
AN ATLANTIC PORT, May 5.— German agents in South America are believed to have knowledge of the fate of the United States Navy collier Cyclops, missing almost two months, according to passengers on a British liner arriving here to-day from Rio de Janeiro.
Reports that the Cyclops was either captured or sunk by a U-boat or German raider, were thought to be greatly strengthened by an occurrence which stirred the Brazilian capital a fortnight after the collier disappeared. This was three weeks before the Navy Department announced officially that the vessel was overdue.
There appeared in a Brazilian paper about March 27 an obscure announcement in Portuguese. It was to the effect that a mass would be said for Alfred L. Moreau Gottschalk, United States Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro, and a passenger on the Cyclops. A large Catholic church and the time were designated.