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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

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For the Mine Sweepers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 3

Miss Mary Jay, a well-known Sydney journalist, is making a special appeal fur hand-knitted socks. on behalf of the brave, intrepid men who are carrying…

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Earlier News. Turkish Withdrawal Constantinople Coal Supply Affected

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 5

The majority of the Turkish troops at Smyrna have been withdrawn and the remainder are in a pitiable condition…

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Coal Famine at Constantinople

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 13 March 1915 · page 2

Constantinople is threatened with a coal famine…

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War in the Air. Coal Stocks Burnt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 2

The "Daily Chronicle" correspondent at Geneva has telegraphed staling that a fort-hight ago, French aviators dropped bombs on a coal depot at Strassburg in [?]…

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The Dardanelles. Cruisers Pass the Night There. Illuminating the Mine Sweepers. The Position in Constantinople. Interesting Reports of Movements In Turkey

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 1

Two big cruisers for the first time passed the night in the Dardanelles, protecting and illuminating the mine sweepers…

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The Dardanelles. Mine Sweeping Proceeding

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 2

Athens reports that the Turks are making a desperate effort to stop the mine-sweeping in the Dardanelles. Mobile land batteries, which are shelling…

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The Dardanelles. Mine-sweepers Shelled

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 2

La[?] telegrams from Athena report that searchlights have been employed by the Turks to assist their land butteries in the shelling of mine-sweepers in the…

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The Dardanelles. Cruiser Braves Mine Area

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 2

The British war ships attacking the Dardanelles forts have silenced several mobile Turkish batteries above Kum Kale fort…

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Disaster in Dar[?]anelles Allies Lose Three Battleships Sunk by Drifting Mines Practically Whole of Crews Saved Bombardment of Forts Continues Queen Elizabeth's Terrific Shelling Effective at Range of Fifteen Miles Allies in the Jardanelles Three War Ships Sunk. By Drifting Mines. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 22 March 1915 · page 2

During the Dardanelles action on Thursday the Allies lost three battleship—the Irresistible, the Ocean, (which belonged to the British), and the Bouvet (French)…

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Colliery Owner's Troubles

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 23 March 1915 · page 3

Speaking at the annual picnic of the miami miners on Saturday, Mr. John brown, head of the firm of J. and A. Brown, who are the owners of the miami…

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The Forcing of the Dardanelles. Three of the Allies Warships Sunk by Mines LONDON, Friday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 March 1915 · page 2

It is officially announced that the British ships, Irresistible (15,000 tons), and Ocean (12,800 tons) and the French battleship, Bouvet (12,000 tons), have been…

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Coal Steamer Sunk

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 6

The steamer Carntoff, coal laden, bound from Tyne to Genoa, was torpedoed off Beachy Head, and sank whilst being towed to Newhaven by…

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Pelaw Mine Work Resumed. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 6

The Pelaw Main Colliery is working to-day. Probably there will be no further trouble over the afternoon shift. Arrangements have beeb made by which…

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Afier- Brilliant Action. Struck Drafting Mine's, London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 6

The Admiralty announces that H.M. ships Queen Elizabeth, Inflexible, Agamemnon, Lord Nelson, Triumph, and Prince George bombarded the forts on…

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Water Is Power. the Slavery to Coal Emancipation Now to Hand

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 3

At this time of day, when the people of Kiowa are distressed over the loss of the bountiful water that goes to waste in the…

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Quiet in Dardanelles. Mine-sweeping Progress

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 2

The only news received regarding the progress of operations in the Dardanelles came from Rome. The message reported that except for a bombardment of the…

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Storing Coal in Water

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

The advantages of storing quantities of coal under water, where deterioration is much less than in the air, are according to the "Colonial Journal"…

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The Mining Industry

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 33

At the half-yearly meeting of the Amalgamated Zinc (de Bavays) Ltd., in Melbourne, Mr. W. L. Baillieu, chairman of directors, said the net profit for the term…

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The Dardanelles. Mine Sweeping Continued. Bombardments in the Straits

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 2

It is stated that the operations in the Dardanelles have recently been chiefly confined to mine-sweeping. A twenty-four hours' bombardment…

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High Cost of Domestic Coal. Should Government Assume Control

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 2

The Board of Trade Committee reports that owing to the high price of domestic coal exports to neutral countries ought to be restricted, and if prices are not…

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