RELICS OF THE WAR
A MYSTERY REVEALED
(United Presa Association.—Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.)
LONDON, Bth February. The "Daily Mail" states that the Admiralty considers it now safe to reveal the purpose of the two mystery towers, 80 feet • high and costing £1,200,000 each, which were built during the war. One of these towers replaced the Nab lightship and the other has been broken up. They were intended to be the forerunners of many similar towers on the Straits of Dover, ti be linked up by nets, heavily fortified, and equipped with searchlights for tho purpose of baffling German submarines.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 11
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99RELICS OF THE WAR Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 11
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