HIDDEN MINES IN-GERMAN NEW GUINEA
DANGEROUS MENACE REMOVED. _ , , Sydney, January 21. . Colonel Holmes states that when, tho 'Australian iroops , rushed the wireleas station at Rabaul, mines previously laid by the Germans failed to. explode, and the men continually marched over them. ' Finally they were exploded by his orders. ■ .. Each mine was formed. 1 by a six-inch iron pipe 50ft. long, and filled with dynamite. Above the pipe were laid stones and iron bolts, all buried a foot beneath the road. When they were blown up {he whole Toad for seventy feet was ripped up, and stonea were driven a hundred feet into the air.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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104HIDDEN MINES IN-GERMAN NEW GUINEA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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