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Mining & the mines, 1914

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Other Items. Further List of British Casualties More Mine Disasters. British Ships Suffer. German Roving Cruisers Active

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 September 1914 · page 1

A further British casualty list shows 18 officers killed, 78 wounded, and 86 missing; other ranks, 52 killed, 322 wounded, and 4672 missing, of…

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Losses in the North Sea. The Germans Sink Fishing Boats. A British Cruiser Strikes a Mine. Founders With Heavy Loss

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 September 1914 · page 2

Two German cruisers and four destroyers sank fifteen British fishing boats in the North Sea, and took the crew prisoners…

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Austria's Power Broken Russia Hems in Her Further Enormous Captures Germany's Tactics Vacillating British Success at Compiegne German Mines Sink Nine Neutral Ships German Death's Head Hussars Cut to Pieces Invasion of France. German Change of Tactics. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 September 1914 · page 2

Germany's new movement through Laferto, Sourjeuarre, Rheims, is interpreted as an attempt to break through the Allied lines between Paris and Epernay, and,…

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British Cruiser Sunk by a Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 September 1914 · page 3

The British cruiser, Path[?] was destroyed off the ease coast, A [?] was three miles distant and the men below were at meals when an explosion shook…

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Mine-laying Continues

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 September 1914 · page 16

The Germans continue to sow mine-fields, usually 30 milyes out, opposite the east coast commercial harbors…

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Gold Ship Guest

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 11 September 1914 · page 3

An expedition has been [?] out in San Francisco to ree[?] the cargo of Gold in the ship Geneal Grant, which was wreeked of the Auekland…

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Expect Gold Panic in Three Years

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 11 September 1914 · page 5

Mr. Moreton Frewen anticipates a financial panic in England within the next two or three years, because of the great drain of British gold…

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Mother Trawler Sunk Blown Up by a Mine. London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 11 September 1914 · page 6

The Grimsby trawler Revigne has been blown up by a mine. The skipper and crew were saved…

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Floating Horrors. North Sea Mines. Two More Trawlers Lost. London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 11 September 1914 · page 6

Another vessel has met its fate in the North Sea, through the mines scattered by the Germans. The steam trawler Imperialist, a…

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Latest Cables. Indian Troops Arrive in Europe. Loyalty of Indian Bulers. Will Give Men, Money, and Horses. German Retreat Eastward. the Russian Menace. Eastern Prussia in Danger. Germans Use English Trawlers to Lay Mines. Austrian Army Reported to Be Disorganised. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 September 1914 · page 2

The first contingent of 70,000 troops from India reached Europe this week. The Indian Government is contributing one million pounds towards the cost of…

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Mine Attached to Lifeboat

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 2

The British trawler Agatha sighted a derelict ship's lifeboat in the North Sea. It was secured and the Agatha commenced to tow it, but directly the strain…

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Mines' Disaster off English Coast

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 2

A British tramp steamer stuck a mine off the Northumberland coast. It sank and all hands have been lost…

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On the Seas. a German Collier Captured. Another Ship Finds a Mine. No Germans in the North Sea. An Austrian Gunboat Strikes a Mine

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 September 1914 · page 1

A British cruiser captured a German collier in the Atlantic, carrying five thousand tons of coal. A British tramp steamer struck a…

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Mine-laying in Open Sea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 18

In reply to a question asked by Lord Camperdown in the House of Lords on Thursday, Lord Wimborne, on behalf of the Government, announced that anyone caught…

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Mine Disaster in New Zealand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 30

An explosion occurred at Ralph's coal mine at Huntly, New Zealand, on Saturday, while over 50 men were below. Twenty-one miners have been rescued,…

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Difference is Gold

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 3

"Most people suppose," says an assayer, "that all gold is alike when refined, but this is not the case. An experience man can tell at a glance…

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Coal Enough for a Thousand Years

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 3

According to a calculation made by the International Geological Congress of Canada, the available supply of coal still unmined in the world is…

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Floating Mines

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 September 1914 · page 4

Almost every day now brings news of some disaster, owing to the mines scattered over the seas by Germany. Fortunately, the disaster is generally very…

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Gold Robbery at Bendigo

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1914 · page 47

The Bendigo police arc investigating the disappearance of a number of gold specimens from the Nell Gwynne mine at Diamond Hill. The company, has recently been…

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Three Austrian Torpedo Boats Strike Mines in the Adriatic

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 26 September 1914 · page 2

Advices from Trieste state that two forpedo boats belonging to the Australian high seas fleech, and an Australian destroyer, hit submarine mines of coast of…

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