MAGNETIC MINES
WILL NOT BE A MENACE MUCH LONGER ACCORDING TO ADMIRALTY > SPOKESMAN. APPEAL TO TRAWLERS BRINGS TREMENDOUS RESPONSE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 27. “We have the matter well in hand. You may be assured that magnetic mines won’t be a menace much longer,” said an Admiralty spokesman, revealing a tremendous response to an appeal for two hundred drifters and trawlers to volunteer especially to combat the new form of marine warfare, which obviously is a German effort to choke neutrals off from British routes. It is revealed that America, as a submarine bar in the last war, laid a field of 56.000 magnetic mines in the North Sea, extending virtually from Norway to the Shetlands.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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122MAGNETIC MINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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