NEW GERMAN MINEFIELDS.
APPROACHES TO CATTEGAT
SEALING THE ENTRANCE.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CBecd. 7 p.m.) COPENHAGEN. Ma-y 14.
The Germans have been busy during the last few weeks in blocking the approaches to s the Cattegat. Extensive minefields have been laid, especially 'in the vicinity of Gothenburg.
The Cattegat or Kattegat—" the cat's throat" —is an arm of the North Sea, a continuation of the Skager-rak southward, between Sweden and Denmark. It is 150 miles long, and varies in width from 40 to 70 miles. The Cattegat communicates with the Baltic Sea by the Sound and the Great and Little Belts. Gothenburg is a Swedish port just inside the entrance of the Cattegat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16851, 16 May 1918, Page 5
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