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Show KAISER'S FLEET WILLI! FIGHT British Challenge to Pitched Battle So Far Declined Germans Sowing Mines. RETALIATORY METHODS Mine Laying Vessels Must be Stopped and Given Short Shrift as Pirates. London, Sept 2 The Times naval correspondent, discussing the fact that the German fleet has so far declined the British challenge to a pitched battle by taking refuge in the expedient expe-dient of sowing mines in the North Bea suggests that it may be necessary neces-sary lor tbe admiralty, which has de- lined to condescend to the German methods in this respect, to take re-taliutory re-taliutory measures in the near future "We maj either have to use mines for the purpose of presenting German Ger-man mine laying vessel leaving German Ger-man ports " sas the correspondent, "or we may decide that crews of vessels used as mine layers should be given short shrift as pirates." |