Locations in the vicinity of Batumi, Georgia forbidden area for fishery according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 26 September 1939

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 29 September 1939 No. 61g.Kdos reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine at Berlin that in the vicinity of Batumi, Georgia several locations were now forbidden area for fishery. Probably were mines laid. The naval attaché had serious doubts about the value of this news.

Source

Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for Turkey, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459.