FLOATING MINE MENACE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14495, 5 January 1918, Page 3

FLOATING MINE MENACE.

According to maritime calculations made by M. Charles Nordman, eventual retribution is m store for those countries which have adopted a neutral view of the war — more or less; for Teutonic barbarity is later to recoil with disastrous effects upon their post-war shipping. The Baltic and North Sea doublecurrent runs past Jutland towards the North, sweeps the German coast, and takes m the Swedish line m its passage. It is, therefore, the last-named country that will suffer from the Baltic's dumping of Germany's derelict mines. An examination of the North Sea currents has convinced M. Nordman that the various Gulf Stream ramifications, after bathing England, rise towards Scandinavia, and sweep along the Netherlands to Denmark. So it is the coasts of Holland, Norway, and Sweden that Von Tirpitz's North Sea floating mines will eventually make for. Spain will not be spared, for, according to the Prince of Monaco's oceano-jOtraphie reckonings, the north, coast of King Alfonso's land will be literally infested with Germany's high-explosive marauders.

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