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Our North Sea patrols on Monday intercepted a number of

German merchantmen off the Dutch coast. The enemy vessels refused to stop and were fired upon. Two were driven ashore, but four were captured and brought into harbour. These prizes,

Porese s Annome ur Ibsr..afD. averaging 1,200 tons apiece, will be useful to the Shipping Controller. The enemy's device of shipping coal from Westphalia by way of the Rhine to Rotterdam, and thence along the Dutch coast to Scandinavia, in order to relieve the congestion on his railways, is thus brought to naught. This abuse of Dutch *neutrality was doubtless in the mind of the Admiralty when the British danger zone in the North Sea was lately extended almost to the verge of Dutch territorial waters. Our patrols have made good use of their new opportunities.

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