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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 9

"■'V,r the r.cxt ton years or eo, according to an American shipping journal, mines laid in deep waters in the .North Sea will causa unpleasant qualms to ship captains sailing tir-so waters. “Thousands of mines were in deep waters during the war, it is Kpiled and now the time lias tome when the imonng cables are beginning to rust through, wrh the result that the mines are breaking loose and coming to the surface. Sixty thousand American mines were laid, it seems, bciwcci! Bergen and the Orkney Islands to shut in the (terrnan submarines, and of those on.v ; bout forty thousand have been recovered, so that loose mines may be expected to appear from time to time. '■*