THE MINE-SWEEPERS
FREE OF INFLUENZA.
lhe minesweepers Gerauinm and Mar. guerite, which wera placed in quarantine owing to cases of influenza developing among their crews 011 the voyage from Sydney; have now been granted pratique, and are coaling in anticipation of proceeding to sea to-morrow. The three vessels, working together, will at once proceed 1 to Cape Farewell, and sweep the wptei's in that vioinity—the track of Sydney-Wellington steamers—which were sown with mines by the Germnu mineplanter and raider Wolf. It'is not anticipated that inanv mines—if any—still ronnun anchored on our coasts, but the operations • of throe adequately-equipped sweepers such as tho Mallow, Marguerite, and Geranium, will make assurance doublv sure.
Captain. Hall-Thompson, Naval Adviser, reported..yesterday that one of the patients from the sweepers died at the quarantine hospital on Somes Island on Sunday 'night. The deceased was one of. thp two serious cases reported after the arrival of tho vessels in Wellington-
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 237, 1 July 1919, Page 6
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153THE MINE-SWEEPERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 237, 1 July 1919, Page 6
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