HAVANA'S MINES.
According to the statement of a London man, whose cards describe him as beino' nn electrical engineer, and whose name cannot be disclosed, but has been forwarded to Washington, he sold to Spanish
officers in London several years ago a large number of mines, eight or ten of which were placed in Havana Harbour. He says they were made in a special way and had a specially and peculiarly constructed cablo "which, he contends, •he can .positively identify, if the smallest piece is produced. Some -of the mines, the man con t inued, were fixed, so that they c<u]d be fired from a fort, and two of them had bulbs,-'so arranged that they would explode upon a vessel coming in contact with them. But the .seeming "'electrical engineer adds that he does not believe the bulbs would be used in water as shallow as that of Havana Harbour. He exhibited the plans of one of these mines, which, he pointed out, was the most likely to produce fche effect described as causing the wreck of the Maine- It was numbered " 2," and was constructed to contain 5001 b of gun-cotton.
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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 493, 14 May 1898, Page 6 (Supplement)
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192HAVANA'S MINES. Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 493, 14 May 1898, Page 6 (Supplement)
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