The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . ending small boats into the fieldto sow it with new mines that explode the old ones by the shock oftheir own explosion, or by dragging with cables, fitted with grapplingirons, drawn across the field between two boats of light draft. Inorder to repel countermining operations, batteries of rajiid-fire gunsare ah^ays placed where they can command the fiel
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . ending small boats into the fieldto sow it with new mines that explode the old ones by the shock oftheir own explosion, or by dragging with cables, fitted with grapplingirons, drawn across the field between two boats of light draft. Inorder to repel countermining operations, batteries of rajiid-fire gunsare ah^ays placed where they can command the field. The Germanfleet to-day is in all probability at anchor behind coast defenses andlines of submarine mines of the general type we have just magnitude of the task confronting the English fleet which de-sires to bring it to bay may therefore be imagined. Contact floatingmines are set in the open sea in the course of the enemys ships. Theseare usually launched overboard in coujiles from a mine-layer connectedby cables, so that when a ships bow strikes this cable it swings the twomines sharply against the vessels side. The British cruiser Am-phion was destroyed by one of these fiendish contrivances in the earlydajS of the British Dreadnought Orion
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