AT SEA: Ambitious Answer

Neutral shipping was warned last week by the British Admiralty to 'ware a vast new mine field it was laying, all the way from Kinnaird Head, on Scotland's northeast shoulder, down to join the fields laid earlier off Yorkshire and in the Dover Straits. These 500 miles of North Sea are to be sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to...

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