The naval news contained in today's telegrams indicates that at a very early date the British Admiralty will be able to announce that the ocean highways of the world are quite free of hostile ships. On October 23 the Admiralty stated that nine German cruisers were on the high seas and that seventy men-of-war of the Allies were searching for them. It was added that the discovery and destruction of the enemy was but " matter of time, patience and luck owing to the vastness of the oceans and the innumerable
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