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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

16 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Engagement in No[?] Sea The Enemy Sighte[?] British in Pursui[?] The Blucher Found Mines Prevent P[?] German Warship Su[?]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

The London Press [?] States that one German [?] was sunk, and two [?] in an engagement in [?] The Bureau stales that [?] morning the British [?] sighted a number of the [?] The British pursued [?] at 9.30 the notion started [?] four British battle cr[?] four of the enemy. By one o'clock one [?] enemy the Blucher [?] and two others were [?] Mines prevented [?] by the British. [?]…

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German Warship Mine-laying

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1915 · page 3

A German warship was seen in the Gulf of Bothnia It is believed she was laying mines…

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General Cables. LONDON, Monday. West Virginia Mining Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 2

Twenty-three miners have been killed by and [?] the Mine in West Virginia. One hundred and sixty…

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British Dredging for Mines

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1915 · page 3

Dredging for mines in the straits has begun…

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Straits Swept for Mines

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1915 · page 2

After the Straits had been swept for four miles from the entrance the warships attacked the inner forts…

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Constantinople Coal Shortage

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 2

Constantinople is threat[?] with a coal [?]…

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Successful Russian Mines

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 3

A message from Petrograd states that the mine laying operations on the Bosphorus resuited in the sinking of seven…

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Shocking Mining Fatality

Delegate Argus · Thursday 6 May 1915 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred at the Victoria Mine, Bendoc, about 6 a.m. on Monday morning, whereby Mr. Peter Butler, a…

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[?] Sneddon Colliery Flooded

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 2

A fall occurred in the r[?] of the Sneddon Colliery, Wallsand, yesterday. The water found its way into the pit, flooding the…

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Enemy's Mines Fruitless

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1915 · page 2

The Germans exploded many mines in Argonne, but failed to make progress…

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Gelignite in Ship's Coal. Adelaide

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 2

A coal lumper engaged in one of the holds of the steamer [?] through a detonator in some gelignite…

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Welsh Coal Strike High Treason

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 19 July 1915 · page 2

[?] Herve, writing in the "Guerre Sociale,'describes the Welsh coal strike as high treason against England, France,…

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Inter-State News. SYDNEY, Monday Broken Hill Miners to Continue Work

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 August 1915 · page 2

At a mass meeting of the Amalgamated Miners Association held at Broken Hill yesterday it was agreed to continue…

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"Gold & Credit."

The Bombala Times · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 2

The following extracts are from an address delivered by a high financial authority and published in the London "Weekly Dispatch":—…

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Daring Naval Officer. "Mines" a Railway Alone London, Friday Night

The Bombala Times · Friday 15 October 1915 · page 3

The Admiralty publishes the account of a remarkable instance of daring on the part of a Naval lieutenant belonging to a British submarine in the Sea…

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Mines, Tubes, and Bridges

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 20 December 1915 · page 3

[?] are laying many, mines, [?] to bring water [?]…

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