"Washington, Sept. 9.
The United States Navy daily bul-latin to every American ship, normally used to convey warnings of bad weather, icebergs and other obstructions, carries the following exceptional message Caution regarding attacks on merchant men in the Mediterranean. American ships "operating in the Mediterranean are "warned. that merchant men of various countries recently have been attacked by unidentified i surface vessels and. sub-
Officials state that the warning does not imply that the United States has changed its policy on refusing to recognize the blockade in Spain—
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