MINES IN NEW ZEALAND WATERS
♦ OF GERMAN TYPE AND FIRMLY MOORED. The following statement is issued by the Naval Adviser to the New Zea- s land Government with reference to the discovery of mines in New Zealand waters :— "In order to allay various rumours as to origin and type, it is pointed out that they are of a known and distinctly German type and origin. They were firmly moored in position, and it is only under very exceptional circumstances that they would drift. They are not such as could bo mamifactuv-' ed locally, nor could any amateurs deal with them, and it may be safely assumed that they were laid by a vessel properly fitted for the purpose, by the enemy. It is practically impossible ii( them to have been laid surreptitiously by any nr.utra! or other vessel which visited New Zealand or other British ports, as the concealment of the mines themselves and the necessary structural apparatus for launching th»m would be practically impossible. It seems clear, therefore, that they must have been laid by a hostile enemy vea- ' sel properly commissioned and organised for the work."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180228.2.20
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 138, 28 February 1918, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
188MINES IN NEW ZEALAND WATERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 138, 28 February 1918, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in