MINEFIELDS LAID
IN OPENINGS OF GREAT BARRIER REEF. AUSTRALIAN NAVY OFFICE ANNOUNCEMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. All openings in the Great Barrier Reef between Arlington Reef, south of Cairns and Anchor Bay, near the New Guinea coast, have been mined. Two minefields have also been laid west of Thursday Island. This information was released by the Navy Office. A • Navy spokesman said the laying of mines had nothing to do w’ith the Japanese-Portuguese agreement permitting Japan to operate an air line from Pelew to Timor. He emphasised that the mines had been laid a month ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 6
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103MINEFIELDS LAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 6
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