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Show SWEDISH PRESS IS HNANT Planting of Floating Mines Off Finland Causes Loss of Three Swedish Steamers. - Stockholm, Sweden, via London. 12 noon. The Swedish press is very indignant in-dignant over the planting of floating mine.- along the coast of Finland, which has resulted so far in the loss ol three large Swedish steamers and the drowning of upwards of forty men. Navigation of Finnish waters hitherto hith-erto has be-n unimpeded and no warning of the laying tf mines has been given. Captains of Swedish bte.irnfrs reaching here declare they saw German warships near the Finnish Fin-nish eoust Saturday aud Sunday; consequently con-sequently the strewing of minee Jn these waters is credited to the Germans Ger-mans Traffic in Finnish waters is to be discontiaued until they have oeen swept for mines. |