A GERMAN MINE.
TOWED IN BY KAMONX By Telegraph.—Presa Association. Wellington, March 6. The steamer Kn.mona arrived off Wellington yesterday with a Gertnan mine in tow. The mine was sighted off Cape Farewell on Tuesday evening, when the vessel was en route for Greymouth and Oamaru. Efforts were made to sink it by rifle fire, hut, though punctured, the holea weTe well above the water line. The captain decided that, Tather tha.u leave the dangerous object, he would take it in tow. Accordingly a boat was lowered and a rope passed round the mine. Captain Hall-Thomson went out to the Wellington Heads, but. the mine was then noticed to he sinking, owing to the water which had entered through the bullet holes during the towing. The mine \v%9 therefore towed well out to sea and the towline cut.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1919, Page 2
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138A GERMAN MINE. Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1919, Page 2
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