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Show oo MINES BEING LAID BY FRENCH FLEET Bordeaux, Oct. 6. 10:45 p. m The ministry of marine issued the following follow-ing notice today: "The Austrian navy having laid mines in the Adriatic, the French fleet has been obliged to do lifewlse, but in order to avoid damaging neutral neu-tral shipping, as the Austrians have done, the French have laid their mines according to rules of chapter vlll of The Hague convention of 1907 The danger zone comprises all Austrian Aus-trian water and channels between the Islands and the coast of Dalmatian |