AN ENEMY MINE
IN COOK STRAIT. DISCOVERED AND EXPLODE©. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", Thursday. . v. The naval adviser to the New Zealand. Government (Captain P. H. Hall-Thomp-son) announces that an enemy mine has been discovered and exploded off Cape Farewell, Cook Strait. The mine was in the area which has been suspected for some time past by the naval authorities, and which all shipping has been wam-d to avoid. PORT KESIBLA DISASTER RECALLED. (By Telegraph—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. * The official announcement of the-'dis-covery of an enemy mine off Cape Farewell revives interest in the cause of the destruction of the steamer Port Kembla. It was thought at the. time that the disaster was due to an internal explosion-— that an infer-.al machine was secreted in cargo loaded _in Australia—but subsequent events tend to suggest that the cause was a floating mine. .There is no official statement in support of this theory, but one authority assured your correspondent that there was nothing :_ the circumstances of the disaster absolutely discounting it.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 40, 15 February 1918, Page 4
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