Paris, Feb. 2.
A naval communique has been issued which states that at 5 o'clock terday evening, fifteen miles north-north-east of Havre, a Ger man submarine fired a torpedo at, but missed, the British hospital-ship Asturias, thus violating the Hague Convention, Amsterdam, Feb. 2.
The high-water-mark of German bravado is reached in to-night's official Berlin announcement that "England is about to ship to France numerous troops and great quantities of war-material. We shall against the transports by all military means. Peaceful shipping is urgently warned against approaching the north and west coasts of France owing to the serious danger that they may be confused with warlike ships."
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