MINES IN THE BALTIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1940, Page 7

MINES IN THE BALTIC

Crippling Blow to Trade of Germany

■NEW-MOVE BY THE NAVY

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(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.!

LONDON, April 14. ; The Admiralty has announced that the whole of the nor£h coast of Germany and also the Kattegat from the east coast of , Jutland to the edge of Swedish waters has been mined. The new move is described as practically crippling German trade in the Baltic. ' The new minefield is a continuation of that laid ■last week and continues through the Baltic to the southern tip of Lithuanian waters. , It will blanket the" whole of the German Baltic coast. It sweeps through the two belt^ separating Denmark and Sweden, and for 240 miles across the Baltic up to Lithuanian territorial , waters. ' * ! ■■<;■ The Admiralty announcement gives notice that mines have been laid in the Baltic Sea and its approaches as follows: A, 57 degrees 00 minutes north, 10 degrees 26 minutes east; B, 57.00 north, 12.24 east; C, 55.30 north, 14.20 east; D, 55^30 north,;2l.o6i east. » The whole of the waters of the Baltic and approaches situated south of the lines joining A to B and C to D are dangerous, added the Admiralty announcement, but no mines will be laid in Swedish territorial waters. Messages received today show that the ■ minefields are already claiming their victims. One of the latest messages says that Swedish sailors have seen German transports wrecked by mines on the west coast of Sweden.