ON THE SEA.
BRITISH MINEFIELDS. ENEMY METHODS OF GETTING THROUGH. Copenhagen. Sept. 5. A hundred mines and much wreckae<> have been washed up in Jutland.- The Germans are scattering a new kind of floating mine consisting of a small bomb, which is bighted with difficulty and explodes on (he slightest contact. The survivor* r>f four trawlers describe that their method is to work in pairs with a great steel net between each for (he purpose of breaking the British mine field. Two submarines accompany them and steam alowly as the mines are removed. Several submarines at various times have thus traversed the mine-field.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1917, Page 5
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103ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1917, Page 5
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