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Show MINES HOLDING SUBMARINES. First Lord of British Admiralty Tells of War Upon the U-Boats. London. Speaking in Loudon Thursday Thurs-day Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the British admiralty, said that mines gradually were hemming in the submarines, sub-marines, which now had less freedom, and he was glad to say there were fewer of them. In referring to the great mine fields, which were notably restricting the submarines. Sir Edward said they stretched from Norway to the north coast of Scotland. There was a barrage bar-rage across the straits of Dover, he added, and mines in Helgoland bight. Some of the fasteFt and best craft of the navy, which certainly would le ranked as the corps de elite, had gone into the bight at night to lay them. Occasionally an enemy submarine trios to break through the Dover Barrage. |