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A new and very important British minefield has been established

in the North Sea. It stretches from outside the territorial waters of Jutland (north of the point where the battle of Jutland began) and from the Frisian Islands, to the neighbourhood of the York- shire coast. It will be seen from the map that it is in the form of a triangle with the point directed towards England. Its largest measurement is three hundred and twenty by one hundred and seventy miles—truly a gigantic field. Its primary object, we may assume, is to give German submarines a much narrower channel than before for leaving and returning to Germany. It is almost certain that the German submarines make for the Atlantic by the northern route and not by the Channel.

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