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THE NEW BRITISH FIELD NOT YET COMPLETED. ..LAYING MAY OCCUPY MONTHS... By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrip,hl. (Received This Dav. 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. The Admiralty announced that mines had been laid over a considerable area in the Skagerrak and Kattegat touching the Danish and Nowegian coast and Swedish territorial waters; also affecting the . whole North Sea and touching Dutch waters. The westernmost limit of the area extends 420 miles northwards from a point off Holland, near Schilling, to sixty miles south-west of Bergen. The minefield then spreads eastwards 1o Denmark, including the Skaggerak. The southernmost portion of the mined area includes extensive fields laid immediately after the outbreak of war. A channel about 20 miles wide is provided through the middle of the fields for neutral shipping. It is stated that the fields do not enter Swedish oi Dutch territorial waters. The new minefields mean that Germany is completely cut off from the North Sea and that Germany is no longer able to contact with Norway. It is pointed out that the minefields are not completed and that the laying might occupy many months. 11, is recalled that the northern barrage in the last war took a year to lay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1940, Page 6
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