Amsterdam, Nov. 20.
high wind) continued blowing Jacross the North Sea throughout the night, casting many mines off their moorings and washing some ashore on the Dutch coast.
Several vessels reported that they had sighted "mines drifting off the coast. Thus the Norwegian freighter JAre saw three mines off Schoumenbank, while mines off the Hook. of Holland were reported by the Latvian steamer. Krimalda.
The Simon Bolivar disaster stirred
leon tinue to reproduce impartially bot the, whole country, 'The papers ithe British and German versions of the accident. The latest' casualty" lst released by the owners of the ill-fated vessel numbers 135 passengers and members of the crew, 'Reports reaching here say the Dutch finer Veendam has been included in the oMeial German ist of armed belligerent merchantmen, Members of ithe press were told at the offices of {the ship's owners that "she plles re-Jgularly' between Rotterdam and New York." We fail to understand how she happened to be Included by the Germans as an armed belligerent vessel demarche has been made in Berlin clarity what is stil! believed to be "an involuntary error" by the German One of the problems of nurses and Jdoctors was the vast "quantities of {tenacious all with which survivors were covered. "Hospital authorities had to make emergency application Hor the issue of petrol for cleaning.
'OMicial circles" in London declare Beyond question that. the was sunk by a German: mine. There are no British mines, {they assert, near the spot where the [Dutch liner went down, and all British Jmines, in accordance with international haw. are so constructed as automatieality to become harmless if parted from their "moorings. "We know."" they
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