MINE-SWEEPING ACTIVITIES.
SOxME INTERESTING FIGURES
(Received Jan. 4, 11.10 a.m.) . LONDON, Jan. 3
An authoritative source states that the 967 mine sweepers employed around the British Isles swept up 4619 mines in 1917, and about 9000 since the outbreak of war.
The sweeping averages 2000 square miles daily, and between 15,000 and 20,000 men are involved in the operations, i
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 4 January 1918, Page 7
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