NAVAL SECRETS REVEALED.
PLUCKIEST MEN IN THE NAVY. London, Jan. 9. Sir Erio Geddes, in a Bpeech to wounded soldiers at Oakland Park, Surrey, described the men of the Twentieth IJine-laying Flotilla as among the best and pluckiest in the navy. They proceeded nightly through German minefield for thirty miles off Heligoland to discover channels through which raiders could pass and lay mines across. Upwards of a hundred German boats, in the first Jialf of tho year 1918, were caught in these trap mines Six German outpost iboats leaving ths Bight on one occasion noticed four of the flotilla entering. By subterfuge the boats got inside the laid mines, and on the way back home mopped up all six German boats and took the crews prisoner. The barrage of mines across the Channel below Ostend trapped seventeen submarines in one month.—Aus;-N.Z. Caow JMr soc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1919, Page 7
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144NAVAL SECRETS REVEALED. Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1919, Page 7
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