FLOATING MINE NLENACE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3393, 24 January 1920, Page 7

FLOATING MINE NLENACE.

LOSSES IN NORTH SEA

The Sr/cl'otal‘y to the Bl‘i.lisll .‘~\dnlil‘alty states that it is ullfol'tullatoly frue that tllel'o are a‘l-.ll'ge number of floating mines in the North Sea, which is inevitable. so long as the mine areas for ‘(he clearance of wllicll Gl'e:l'r. B'l'i—tain is not responsible 1-0111:1111 in exisfcncc. During the last two m~ollths, w1"1t0s a corl'eSpondollt- from London, 108 11111105 war.) dvstroyetl 310111111 the coasts, and «tight dL‘Sl'l‘o}'Ci':<. vre cllgagud 011 the work. =

Sn‘-svivors of the crew of the fishing boat Ocean Crest 11. werg -bx-onglit, to Yarmouth, and I'epol‘te<l that f,‘leir Vesssel struck a mine and sank eff Cl-omer. William Elijah Shreeve, the sliippeij. went down with the vessel, and one other member of the crew was lost, having been killed by an explosion or (irowiied. All. the other hzmds. were picked up. A niotpr vessel called the Royal Swan, struck a drifting mine off the coast of Ireland, and was blown up Four men were killed. This is the second mine eaisualty oil‘ the Irish coast in a few days.