FIVE MILES OFF CAPETOWN
ENEMY MINELAYER'S AUDACITY ABLE TO READ CimT ELECTRIC SIGNS (Rec. 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 10. The naval authorities in 'Cape Town disclosed that German raiders laid two minefields of! the South African coast —off Caiagulhas in May, 1940, and in the approaches to Table Bay in March, 1942—but the results were negligible. The mines, which were scattered over a wide area, were swept up by South African minesweepers. • During darkness on March 12. 1942, an enemy minelayer actually dashed in to within five miles of Cape Town, where the captain of the vessel was able to read the electric signs in the centre of the citv.
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Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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