The Hague, Feb. 13.
The German Legation, in a communique issued to-night, reiterates the warning to neutral shipping and adds some new paragraphs to the effect that as Great B says she is justified in hoisting neutral flags and as, moreover, according to information" received from a reliable source, British merchant men have been armed in order to destroy German submarines or to ram them, these ships become war-
Germany, therefore, urgently warns all neutral chips against 1 tering English or Irish coast-water After February 18 Germany will pro-secure the war by all means and neutral ships will run the same risks as if steaming through eea-battles between Germany and England.
Germans.
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