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Show v i British Have Hands Full j in Clearing Obstrnc-i Obstrnc-i tions Laid by Huns. WAR'S NOTABLE TASK Ships Combed 46,01)0 Miles of Water Each Month.. j - - LONDON, Dec. 21 (Correspondence of the Associated Press) British mine sweepers will have their hands full fori some time in carrying out clause 24 of the armistice which provides that the associated governments shall have the right to sweep up all mine fields and ; obstructions laid by Germany outside German territorial waters, the positions posi-tions of which are to be indicated by i the Germans. I Through the war these mine sweep-: ers have been doing silently and fearlessly fear-lessly a notable work. Each month the mine sweepers have combed 46,000 j miles of vater. To do this they j steamed a total -of 1,132,000 miles. i In 1916, 21,000 mines were removed I with a total of fifty-one mine sweepers. ! In 1917 43,000 mines were swept up j and 89 mine sweepers were lost. In j 1918 up to the end of September 1400 mines were swept up and 19 sweepers I lost. |