The Archive · 1940

New Secret British Mine

London, Apr, 1.

As part of the Allied attempt to cut Germany from her forees of occupa-than in Norway, Britain Is using a new and deadly seéret_ mine, It was me timated that the British have a small ect 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.

TI was reported that Allied mine folds laid off the German, Nother-lands and Norwegian coasts and in the Skagerrak and Kattegat—the entrances to. the Baltic Sea—now cover about 60,000 square miles—

United Press,

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