Mines used in sub. hunt
NZPA-Reuter Stockholm The Royal Swedish Navy is trying to establish whether it damaged a foreign submarine when it detonated two underwater mines in home waters off the northern port of Sundsvall yesterday. A Navy spokesman said that the mines had been set off after naval officers spotted what they thought was the moving periscope of a
mini-submarine east of the island of Alnoe, where a submarine hunt has been in progress for the six days. A Navy helicopter dropped a depth-charge late yesterday in the same area where the two mines were detonated earlier, it was reported last evening. “We had new indications of a submarine and dropped the charge. That is all I can say at this stage,” a spokes-
man said.
Eye-witness reports fuelled the search until Wednesday when the Navy had its own first indications of a submarine.
The naval spokesman said yesterday that he believed the Navy was facing more than one submarine and had evidence apart from the periscope sighting to suggest that the vessel in the mine incident was a midget.
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