ADMIRALTY STATEMENT.
"ALWAYS LOOKING FOR FIGHT." ANXIOUS TO MEET THEM AGAIN. LONDON, June 4. Asked whether we were " looking for fight," or whether tho meeting had been accidental, the Admiralty replied: "Whenever tho fleet is out it is always ' looking for fight/ " adding
that whatever the German enterprise was, it did not come off. 44 We drove the whole of them to port, waited on the spot, and searched everywhere until Thursday. There were no signs of them, and we returned home leisurely. "Our only wish is that they will emerge to-morrow under similar conditions.'* , ' *"""..'
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11716, 5 June 1916, Page 1
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