Considerable comment been aroused the arrival and anchoring of a German torpedo-boat in the Tyne during a mimic hatti Officers of H.M.S. Vindictive boarded the German boat in order to ascertain the reason of her visit. Her commander explained that he had been watching fishing operations on the East Coast and had put in to the Tyne owing accident to a water tank. He was unaware, he said, that mancouvres were being carried on and he expressed regret for having caused any stoppage of the manwuvres.—Reuter.
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