MINES IN NEW ZEALAND WATERS.
STATEMENT BY NAVAL ADVISEE, LAID BY ENEMY VESSEL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night, The following statement has been issued by the naval adviser to the New Zealand Government, with reference to the discovery of mines in New Zealand waters: "In order to allay various! rumors as to the origin and type, it is pointed out that they were of known and distinctly German type and origin. Thoy were firmly moored in position, and it is only under very exceptional circumstances that they would drift. They are not such as could be manufactured locally nor could any amateurs deal witti them and it may be safely assumed" they were laid by a vessel properly fitted for the purpose by the enemy. It is practically impossible for them to have been laic surreptitiously by any neutral or other vessel which visited New Zealand, oi other British ports, as the concealment of the mines themselves, and the necessary structural apparatus for launching them, would bo practically impossible, It seems clear, therefore, that they must / have been laid by a hostile enemy vessel ( properly commissioned and organised foe \ the work.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1918, Page 4
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192MINES IN NEW ZEALAND WATERS. Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1918, Page 4
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