MEETING MENAGE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 265, 29 November 1939, Page 4

MEETING MENAGE

DRIFTING MINES BRITISH ADMIRALTY „ CONFIDIi-INOE JOX PRESSEiD CULL FOR DU I.FTERS RUGiyY, .Nov. 27. To meet 1 lit* mine-laying offensive on 1 lif part of tlu> enemy, wliieft was not unexpected, .the Admiralty is lapidly reinforcing the mine sweeping ilotillas hy the acquisition of fishing vessels of trawler and drifter types and has called for volunteers from among fishermen between the ages of 18 and 4o years with, not less than olio year’s experience of deep-sea fishing era ft. Recently the Admiralty asked lor 200 drifters 'for mine-sweeping, and it is now revealed that more than 200 volunteers have already been received. “Wo have the .matter well in hand You may la* assured that the magnetic mines will not he a menace much longer,” said an Admiralty spokesman te-diiy in re faring to the tremendous response to the appeal for 200 drifters and trawlers especially to conduit the new form of marine warfare, which was obviously, lie said, a (.'formal! effort to choice neutrals from British routes.