Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — German Mine Field in China Sea Discovered [ARTICLE]

German Mine Field in China Sea Discovered

Seattle. —German charts recently surrendered disclosed a large mine field in. the China Sea, over which American ships, ignorant of its existence, passed safely many times. Captain J. E. Guptil of the steamer Senator said on arrival from the Orient. The German raider Wolff in Sep* tember, 1917. laid the mines in a field sixty miles lorg by two miles wide, but set them too deep. Chinese trawlers, commanded by British officers, ane removing the mines. One mine floated ashore and killed sixteen Malay islanders who started to break it up.