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care of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. first peace offer, may best be answered in the words of Admiral Hawkins, who reproached those who feared the apparently overwhelming might of the Spanish Armada Fail? Fail? What murrain do you here talk of failing? Who made you a prophet, you scurvy, hang-in-the-wind, croaking, white-livered son of a corly-crow? Here's a fellow calls himself captain of a ship, and her Majesty's servant, and talks about failing, as if he were a Barbican loose-kirtle trying to keep her apple-squire ashore, If such peace offers are indeed put forward, they will undoubtedly be carefully studied, as all Herr Hitler's suggestions have always
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