Prosperity at Woolwich. a Gold Mine to Workmen
While the financial strain on war is felt in all parts of the country. Woolwich is happy for Woolwich lives and thrives on fighting by land and sea…
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Tax on Cold Mines
It is understood that the Government of the Union of South Africa is contemplating the imposition of a special tax on gold minues, on a sliding scale…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Electric Power As a By-product at Mines
At a mine in South Africa, says Prometheus." the water supply has to be drawn from a considerable distance and must on its way cross a ridge some 600…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Search for Gold
Since the outbreak of war there have been continuous official efforts in Germany to sweep fold into the coffers of the German Imperial Bank. The German who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Strikes Mine
The steamer Wavelet, bound from Pensacola (Florida) to Leith, strick a mine to-day off the Kentish coast. The captain managed to beach the vessel at Deal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sowing Mines Near Coast
It is reported rom Washington that the German Ambassador to the United States of America (Count von Bernstorff) has announced Germany's intention to sow mines…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Assistance of Zeppelins and Mines
A leading Berlin paper declares that Zeppelins will participate in the blockade of Great Britain. Another paper says the whole British coast lino. The naval…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Relic of the Past. Gold Rush Recalled
When the gold rush to this diggings at Beechworth was at its height, over 60 years ago, an old pant was used to ferry the miners across the Ovens River at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Sweeping Perils
A memorandum Issued by the Admiralty states that mine-sweeping operations to the end of December reveal a wonderful record of pluck. The Germans laid an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German War on Merchantmen. Submarine Torpedoes Coal Boat. LONDON
A German submarine torpedoed and sank the small steamer Downshire, laden with coal, off Calf of Man, a small island at the southern extremity of the Isle of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enlistment of Coal Miners
The Government has appointed a committee to secure the co-operation of mine-owners and colliers to try to free the largest number of men possible qualified for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Sweeping
The British Admiralty has issued a memorandum, stating that the minesweeping operations up to the end of December constituted a wonderful record of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Blockade Coal Steamer Sunk. Crew Given Five Minutes to Leave. London
A German submarine torpedoed and sunk the small coal-laden steamer Bownshire off the Isle of Man on Saturday evening, They gave the crew five…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Entombed Miners
MINTON (West Virginia), Wednesday, Roseners saved 10 m[?] and recovered nine bodies of 182 miners cotoinbed in the New River and Pocahentas Consolidated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dredging for Mines Begun
The French Minister of Marines reports that four of the Dardanelles forts have been completely destroyed. One had been armed entirely by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Things in Naval War. Power of the Submarine and the Mine
Science, taking to itself wings and speeding through the air, speaking through the winds, and screaming out of the mouths of unparalleled guns,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners to Meet
The Miners' Federation has summoned a national conference in London for 17th March, falling a settlement of local disputes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombarding the Dardanelles Mine Sweepers at Work
A Paris paper states that the mine sweepers in the Dardanelles, which protected the French squadron, have been successful in destroying five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germans Bombard Factories and Collieries
The correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at Dunkirk says that realising that it is impossible to force the Anglo-French lines t La Bas[?] and Bothane, the…
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