LAYING OF MINES
APPEAL BY SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES SEPARATE REPRESENTATIONS TO BELLIGERENTS. NORWAY’S HEAVY LOSSES. Norway, Denmark and Sweden have decide to ask belligerents to stop the laying of mines, Daventry reports. Each country is to make the request separately. The Norwegian Foreign .Minister says Norway has lost 50 ships of a total tonnage of 110,000 and 350 Norwegians have lost their lives. Of the 50 ships sunk, nine had been torpedoed, 33 mined and the cause of the losses of the others was not known. Most of the ships mined were beyond any area which had been announced as having been mined.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 5
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102LAYING OF MINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 5
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