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MINES OFF CAPE FAREWELL STATEMENT BY NAVAL AD.VISER The following statement is issued by the Naval Adviser to the New Zealand Government with reference to the discovery of mines in New Zealand waters :— "In order to ally various rumours as to origin and type, it is pointed out that they are of a known and distinctly German type and origin. They were firmly'moored in position, and it is only under very exceptional circumstances that they would drift. They are not such as could be manufactered locally, nor could any amateurs deal with them, and it may be sa-fely assumed thai they were laid by a vessel properly fitted for the purpose by the enemy. It is practically impossible for them to have been laid surreptitiously by any neutral of other vessel.. which visited New Zealand or other ' British ports, as the concealment of the mines themselves and the necessary struc; tural apparatus for '■ launching them would bo practically impossible. It seems clear, therefore, that they must ha\\o been laid by a hostile enemy vessel properly commissioned and organ--1 iseel for the work."
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 51, 28 February 1918, Page 7
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184FIRMLY MOORED Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 51, 28 February 1918, Page 7
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