Show PROVED ITS WORTH no vessel protected by that contrivance Is known to have been sunk by mines the oddity of the word as it now reaches the general public shows how well an important secret was kept during the historic years yeara 1917 18 during those years the invention ven tion perfected at portsmouth englund england was added to tome british vessels and no case Is known in which a ship thus protected was damaged by a sunken mine towed under water mater on both sides of the bow the shaped like a lite kite met the mooring wire of the sunken mine deflected the hidden menace to a safe distance from the ship severed its mooring and left it free to come to the surface where it could be exploded by gun fire seamen naturally enough soon came to speak of the ei as otters and they enabled many a vessel to travel safely through mine infested waters several hundred american ships had been thu equipped at the signing of the armistice and it is a pleasing thought that the cessation of hostilities saved about COO which the united states meant to spend in providing pa pit for american shipping |