Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — ONE MENACE REMOVED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE MENACE REMOVED

One of the most effective weapons

in the war, bat one which has had but small notice, la the ship that scours the seas for the death engines that lurk everywhere waiting for unsuspecting merchantmen. This is a good view of a mine Just taken aboard a ■weeper. Great- Britain’s fleet *of ■weepers have been very successful in destroying the enormous fields planted U the North sea by the German*