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Show EIGHT VESSELS STRIKE MINES AND DISAPPEAR LONDON, Pec. 2V 4:45 a. m. Commenting Com-menting on the fact that eight vessels have been lost in the North sea since Christmas eve, owing to mines, the Times today says: "Many people have been under the Impression that some of these losses were caused by bit tin? British mines. It can be st'-itrri authoritatively that not a single sin-gle British mine has been laid down off thf etiMi coast of England. "Tlie loss falls most heavily on neutral shipping, which, however. h;in heen warned' rpatedly by the admiralty that the Germa n mines are insecurely anchored an-chored find likely to drift considerable distances." |