London, Apr. 14.
As part of the Allied attempt to cut Germany from her forces of occupation in Norway, Britain is using a new and deadly secret mine. It was intimated that the British have a small fleet in the Kattegat ready to meet any German attempt to sweep a channel through the mine fields for supplies and reinforcements for its Norwegian forces.
It was reported that Allied mine fields laid off the German, Netherlands and Norwegian coasts and in the Skagerrak and Kattegat—the entrances to the Baltic Sea—now cover about 60,000 square miles—
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