London, Dec. 4.
"Magnetié mines are not new, said Sir Thomas Holland, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, addressing the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce today.
"Magnetic mines were known as long ago as 1008, and the only difference between their use then and now is that international law has been broken by placing them in parts of the sea traversed by neutral as well as enemy ships,"
"British scientists, Sir Thomas added, were not disturbed so much by their magnetic qualities as by the fact that they were scattered in the open seas.
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