ON THE SEAS.
TORPEDOrBOAT STRIKES A MINE. SEVEN LIVES LOST: (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Aaaodation.) (Renter's Telegram*.) STOCKHOLM, December 18. A Danish torpedo-boat struck a mine, and seven men were killed and four wounded. PILOT'S NARROW ESCAPE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, December 16. An extraordinary incident is related by a Channel pilot. On December loth he descended a ship's side in tho darkness off Dungeness. Ho saw an object in the water, and stepped on to it, thinking it was a boat. Tho pilot Released his hold of the ladder when tho boat hailed him, and a search with a lamp showed that tho object was a large live mine.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16398, 18 December 1918, Page 7
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115ON THE SEAS. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16398, 18 December 1918, Page 7
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