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Show MINE PLANTING AREA INCREASED WASHINGTON. March 23 An ex-j ex-j tension of the area of danger to shipping; ship-ping; off the mouths of the Weser and Elbe rhers. where the allies are employing em-ploying mines and other devices in their efforts to block egress from the great German naval case, is announced in a British foreign office note cabled to the state department today by Ambassador Am-bassador Page. The line, formerly running from a point four miles off the Danish coast to within seven miles of the Dutch coast, after April will extend between points three miles off the Danish and Dutch coasts and include all waters to the eastward, except the territorial waters of these countries. Beginning on the parallel of latitude j 56 degrees north of Jutland, the line passes through latilude 5G degrees north, longitude fi degrees east; latitude lati-tude 54 degrees 30 minutes east; latitude lati-tude 53 degrees 23 minutes north; longitude 5 degrees 1 minute east; latitude lat-itude 53 degrees 25 minutes north, longitude 5 degrees 5 1-2 minutes east, land thence to the eastward following the Netherlands territorial waters. |