DANGEROUS WATERS
MINEFIELDS EXTENDED IN MEDITERRANEAN COAST OF EGYPT TO TURKEY. ADMIRALTY WARNING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, May 16. The British Government has given notice that the limited areas in the Mediterranean which were declared dangerous to shipping in February and April. 1941. have been extended to include all water eastward of a line drawn from Ras El Kanais, on the Egytian coast, east of Matruh, to a point about three miles from Cape Khelidonia, in Turkey, with the exception of Turkish territorial waters. Any vessel sailing in these areas without the permission of the British naval authorities will do so at its own risk and peril. The areas enclose the Eastern Mediterranean from a line between these two points to the Syrian coast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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128DANGEROUS WATERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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