ENEMY MINEFIELDS.
LOCATED OFF NEW ZEALAND.
TWO MINES DESTROYED. WELLINGTON, June 11. Tho Naval Adviser announces that the New Zealand mine-sweeping trawlers have located an enemy minefield northward of New Zealand, between Cape Maria van Diemen and North Cape, about 10 miles from shore. Two mines have been recovered and destroyed, and a third in all probability has been located. Operations are being continued. The public are again warned that mines are liable to break_away and be washed on the shore. Should any person find eucli an object it should bo reported at once to the nearest naval, military, police, or Customs authority. It should not in any way be tampered with beyond endeavouring to make sure that it doe 3 not again float out to sea. The type of mine being found at present is somewhat oval in shape, with five horns, two lifting bolts at the top, and mooring arrangements at tho base. Tho height ia about 4ft 6in and the diameter about 3ft.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 61
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166ENEMY MINEFIELDS. Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 61
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