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Show GERMAN FLEET lAYjW MINES London, Jau. 26, 1 p m Tho German Ger-man armored cruiser Friedrich Carl and a numerous group of torpedo boats were seen today off the Aland islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, steering south. Later they passed Gotland close to the shore Ic is believed they have again been active ac-tive in the laying of mines in the Gulf of Bothnia All shipping In the gull has now been stopped. The foregoing dispatch, If correct, disproves a story from Petrograd over a month ago to the effect that tin Friedrich Carl had been sunk in the Baltic during a naval sortie trom one ol the German bases. She is a cruiser crui-ser of S,S58 tons and was launched in 1902, |