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Show BERLIN, Nov. 3. bv wireless to Say- 1 ville. The admiralty "has made the fol- lowing announcement: It is once more stated that all the German torpedo boats which partook par-took in the enterprise in the English Eng-lish channel on the night of October Octo-ber 26-27 returned. No boat was damaged by shells or mines. As to the English patrol ships sunk by German torpedo boats, the British minister, Balfour (first lord of the admiralty) admitted that the number was six. The official British report issued previously mentioned none. The German report gave their number as eleven, which, according to a new and careful investigation, must be considered as very conservative. conser-vative. The German torDedo boats by no means wrere driven away by the British, for there were present no British forces that could have done this. The few British destroyers which showed themselves were in part sunk by shots, being so taken by surprise 'that they could not fire one shot, while "the remainder Baved themselves by flight. |