We have received the following communique from H, M. Consul-General.
His Majesty's Consul General is instructed by His Majesty's Minister to publish His Majesty's Government's absolute denial of Germany's recent announcement that all English harbours had been declared to be fortified places or Naval ports. His Majesty's Government is forced to the conclusion that this wholly untrue invention of the German Government is deliberately perpetrated with the object of offering some sort of excuse to Neutral Powers for the illegal German ' operations against mercantile shipping in British waters. Two lives lost.
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