Show U MENACE TO io O HAUNT SEAS r i 4 t i. i FOR 25 YEARS f t Prince Prince of Monaco 1 Expert Peril Will Vill Last Says j i- i II Huns uns Blamed It- It t nr ET nO U Universal l Sen Ice sentI Cor Correspondent London Jul July 12 Tho l Tho seas will no nobe not be entirely clear of or dangerous floatIng floatIng float- float Ing mines for tor twenty five years t to camp comp ThIs This Is the tho news new cheering to Irav- Irav elers which the Prince Prince- of ot Monaco o gives to tho world Besides boin K ruler of or almost tho smallest it Uy Ity In the world orld His ills Majesty Is credited cred cred- lied Hed with another r distinction ho distinction ho Is Isone i one of ot tho the highest authorities In th tho science of ot ocean currents Therefore his statement carries weight wels-ht That tho the v. v rid of ot another s-enor- s 1 should suffer some som drea dreadful reminder of or the tho blood madness mad mad- ness floss which racked civilians cl In this second decade of or the twentieth century con con- tury seems a rim as-rim prim grim demonstration I tion of oC tho Mosaic law of ot tho the sins o otho of or tho fathers But Dut tho of or Monaco Monaco Monaco Mon Mon- aco gives partial reassurance by say say- U tho the iner Ing that after a a. few tow moro more years ears chanco chance that a ship will strike a float float- floatIng Iner Ing mine will be perhaps one ono In fifty Yet that chanco chance remains Germany Refused Device Spokesmen esmen the British navy particularly for tor that branch devoted do 1 Ito to to tho the dangerous task taek of mine swooping sweeping swoop sweep ing lay 11 all aU tho the blame for tor this floatIng float float- Ing menace menace upon the heads of or the Ger- Ger I mans They deliberately deliberate discarded a standard device designed to render conS contact con con- S tact t. mines harmless after arter a n certain j i elapse time says saya the navy with the result that ever every German mino everI ever cr i let loose remains a a. peril to Ira na until j until It Is found and exploded or ori I i until tho the mino sinks by the tho slow In- In f 1 of ot the sea through h Its seams scams D But t It must bo be said that tho the timo has not yet elapsed for tor British mines s either elther sown floating and unanchored I I In n. n German waters aters or broken from II I 1 their moorings In the great mine I fields Ields of ot tho the channel and between Eco Scotland land and Greenland t. t to haVo 0 a ao o become become be be- come como innocuous Hardly a 0 fortnight passes nowadays 5 1 J that there thero l IB is not an obscure para paragraph raph If In tn tho the English press tolling of or the f l loss ss o of a em email n steamer e c or ta trawler lor I j I I I i j I I I through too the QUICK etao etab or 01 one ot of meso I 1 malignant relics of or the nations nations' murder murder mur mur- der lust lust- Occasionally as ns in the Mediterranean Med Med- nem ten days das ago ngo a crowded steamer plumps beneath the waves and there thero Is a a. shocking loss of ot lifo life In view of ot tho expected overseas rush from tram to Europe when tho tho passport and war zone restrictions restrictions tons are raised It tt Is comforting to hear henr t. t recently published navy report that tho the only sector of or the tho trans-Atlantic trans sea lanes remaining the tho least bit unquestionable is that short one one fifth fifth of at tho the track through the Irish eca e a. a and St. St Georges George's channel channo Over this mine sweepers constantly are passing and steamships double their watch when they enter this zone S Sen n Cur r Currents Current t Sweep A Away n Mines Mince action of tho the ocean currents on t the the c European side olde of ot tho the Atlantic c ten tends to carry Jrr all aU derelict mines away awny front from this great grent highway of or commerce and to assemble them at certain backwater backwater back- back water points on a lino between bet Iceland Ice Ico- land and tho the Canaries while the southeastern section of or tho the Bay Day o of or f Biscay Just north of ot the Spanish penI pen pen- I il is said to be tho the most dangerous danger danger- ou ous gathering place for tor mines swept down dawn through the tho English channel and out to tho the Atlantic Whatever mines tho the German sub sub- m may have dropped during h visits to the American coast constand const const- and wo know from the tho cruiser Tacoma's Ta- Ta camiL's comas coma's fate tate they did lay some some will will bo bG sucked into the thc Gult stream and carried car car- I ried towards Iceland M |