Gold Coast Executions
LONDON, Thurs.—The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Creech Jones) briefly announced in the Commons that the Governor of Gold…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Important Part Played by Coal
Provisional figures for coal production in 1946 in the United Kingdom, issued, by the Ministry of Fuel and Power show that…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Unless it has approved of the Joint Coal Board, the Coalmine Amendment Bill at Present before the…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Coalmines Regulation Amendment Bill passed Committee stages in the Legislative Assembly to-day…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday.— A State-wide stoppage of deputies and shot firers was threatened as a result of a meeting of the…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—All Queensland mines will be idle from next Monday, unless colliery owners put into effect a decision to…
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KALGOORLIE, Tues.—Two more rich gold strikes have been reported in the past 48 hours. At West Range, Dominic…
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AMSTERDAM, Thurs.—The Greek steamer. Alexandra 4355 tons, struck a mine off Terschelling Island and is…
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SYDNEY, Fri.—The Coal and Oil Shale Mine Workers' Pensions Amendment Bill passed the second and third reading in the…
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LAKE SUCCESS (New York), Friday.—Because of Albania's "unexplained hatred" of Britain, and because previous negotiations between the two countries failed, it would be useless for Britain and Albania to try by direct discussion to reach a…
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LONDON, Monday.—Another dramatic attempt is being made to save five Gold Coast natives from the executioner's noose for having performed ritual murder. Mr. A. L. Bryden, solicitor in…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Three of the Gold Coast natives who were sentenced to death for ritual murder were executed at Accra yesterday. The curtain has not yet…
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BELGRADE, Wed. — One man was killed when the United States food relief ship, St. Lawrence Victory, bound for Sibenik from…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday.—Britain's dispute with Albania over mine-laying incidents in Corfu Channel last October, when two British destroyers were damaged and 44 Royal Navy personnel were killed, may be taken to the International Court of…
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NEW YORK, Wed.—More than 100 men are reported to be trapped in a soft coalmine at Wamac, near Centralia, Illinois, following an…
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CENTRALIA (Illinois), Thursday.—It is now hoped that rescue parties will reach 110 entrapped miners in Centralia colliery within a few hours, but there is little hope of finding them alive. A spokesman for the Cen[?]…
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NEW YORK, Friday.—Sixteen more bodies have been recovered from the soft coalmine near Centralia, Illinois, where a violent…
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British railways are tackling the problem of converting locomotives from coal to oil burning under the Government authorised scheme by which the main line companies will save a million tons of coal per year. Only heavy duty locomotives consuming the…
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WASHINGTON, Sun.—The President of the United Mine Workers (John L. Lewis) has called for a stoppage of work throughout the soft coal industry from April 1 to April 6 to mourn for the miners killed in the Centralia coal mine disaster…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.—The twentieth mine sweeping flotilla has destroyed 602 mines since the commencement of operations off…
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