Captain Fred Jebsen, who was a lieutenant in the German Naval Reserve, took out a cargo of coal, properly bonded in his ship, the _Mazatlan_, for Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. Off the mouth of Magdalena Bay the _Mazatlan_ met the _Leipzig_, a German cruiser, and the cargo of coal was transferred to the battleship. One of Jebsen's men, who had signed on as a cook, was an expert wireless operator, and he went to the _Leipzig_ with three cases of "preserved fruits"--wireless apparatus forwarded by German agents in California. Jebsen, after an attempt to smuggle arms into India, which will be discussed later, made his way to Germany in disguise, and was reported to have been drowned in a submarine. The _Nurnberg_ and _Leipzig_ lay off San Francisco for days in August, the former finally entering the Golden Gate for the amount of coal allowed her under international law. The _Olson_ and _Mahoney_, a steam schooner, was laden with supplies for the German vessels and prepared to sail, but after a considerable controversy with the customs officials, was unloaded. Perhaps the most bizarre attempt to spirit supplies to the Imperial navy was that in which the little barkentine _Retriever_ figured as heroine. Wide publicity was given the announcement that she was to be sailed out to sea and used as the locale of a motion picture drama. The Government found out, however, that her hull was well down with coal, which did not seem vital to the scenario, and she was not permitted to leave port. The major portion of Germany's naval strength lay corked in the Kiel Canal, where, except for a few indecisive sorties, Germany's visible fleet was destined to remain for more than three years. At the outbreak of war, the _Emden_, _Dresden_, _Scharnhorst_, _Gneisenau_ and _Nurnberg_ were at large in the southern oceans. On November 1 the German cruisers met the British _Monmouth_, _Good Hope_, _Glasgow_ and _Otranto_ off Coronel, the Chilean coast. The _Monmouth_ and _Good Hope_ were struck a mortal blow and sunk. The _Glasgow_ and _Otranto_ barely escaped. In a battle off the Falkland Islands on December 7, as the German army was being thrown back from Ypres, the _Scharnhorst_, _Leipzig_, _Gneisenau_ and _Nurnberg_ were sunk by a reinforced British fleet. (Walter Peters, one of the crew of the _Leipzig_, floated about for six hours after the engagement, was picked up, made his way to Mexico, and for more than three years was employed by a German vice-consul in Mexico in espionage in the United States. Peters was arrested as a dangerous enemy alien in Crockett, California, in April, 1918.) The _Dresden_ and _Karlsruhe_ escaped, and the former hid for two months in the fjords of the Straits of Magellan. On February 26, 1915, an American tourist vessel, the _Kroonland_, passed east through the Straits and into Punta Arenas harbor, while out of the harbor sneaked the little _Glasgow_, westward bound. The _Dresden_, after