Queensland Miners Refuse Saturday Work
BRISBANE, Friday:-- Queensland miners will not work tomorrow, as they have been instructed to work only a 40-hour…
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Mining & the mines, 1939
520 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 24 of 26
Gold Salute's Future BRISBANE
W. J. Shean, the trainer of Gold Salute, said that the horse is to be prepared for the Futurity Stakes and Newmarket Handicap to be run next…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drake Miners Getting Good Returns
Mr. C. H. Young, of Drake, is still recovering rich gold on his lease at Mount Carrington, Drake. He has recovered 50 ozs. of smelted gold during…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →More Ships Sunk By Mines Five Neutral Out of Total of Eight 110 Believed Lost In Simon Bolivar
LONDON, Monday: -- Eight steamers have been sunk by mines in the North Sea from Saturday until to-day in defiance of all principles of international law and humanity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazis Admit Mines Laid Indiscriminately British Sweeper and Japanese Liner Among Latest Sunk
LONDON, Tuesday: -- The Nazi radio now admits and almosts boasts of indiscriminate mining in the North Sea, which has caused the sinkng of two more British ships…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining of Italian Ship
LONDON Wednesday: The Italian steamer Fianona struck a mine off the south-east coast. The hull…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Excise on Gold Move in Senate for Disallowance of Regulations
CANBERRA, Wednesday: -- In the Senate to-day Senator Collings moved for disallowance of the regulations under the National Security Act…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crack Japanese Liner Latest Nazi Victim Sunk Near Terminal Port Another Italian Ship Strikes Mine LONDON
As the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) was announcing Britain's reply to Germany's illegal warfare, news reached London of the sinking of the crack Japanese liner Terukuni…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Intensification Of Mine-Laying Campaign "
LONDON, Thursday: -- The "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent says: It is officially stated from Berlin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wire Rope 1¼ Miles Long For World's Deepest Mine Shaft
LONDON: Two special steel ropes, each over 1¼ miles long and about two inches in diameter, have been made in Britain for a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Destroyer Sunk By Mine Watched by Crowd London
IT was officially announced that the destroyer Gipsy struck a mine on the east coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Belief Germans Use Planes to Drop Mines by Parachute More Vessels Added To Toll
LONDON Thursday: -- It is believed that the Germans are now employing planes to drop mines by parachute. The plane shot down near the Thams Estuary last night by anti-aircraft fire is thought to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unrestricted Mine Warfare Is German Threat 'Terror' Sequel to Blockade Holland Is Chief Victim Of Nazis' Cruelty At Sea LONDON
ACCORDING to the "Daily Telegraph" Rotterdam correspondent it was officially stated in Berlin that Germany would meet the export control with an unrestricted mine warfare…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Master Censured Sinking of Sirdhana By Mine SINGAPORE
At the inquiry into the sinking in Singapore Harbour on November 13 of the British India steamer Sirdhana (7745 tons), with serious loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Thames Sown with Mines From the Air Germans Use Parachutes 'They Fall Like Umbrellas' Seaplanes Employed LONDON
Germany's latest method of indiscriminately laying mines is to drop them from aeroplanes by means of parachutes. Tug-boat crews on the Thames were staggered last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reported Plan To Overcome New Mine Menace
LONDON, Sunday:--The "Dispatch" understands that the Admiralty is able to conquer the magnetic mine menace by devising a means of throwing a powerful electro magnetic force some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Production Of Submarines And Mines Accelerated by Germany
AMSTERDAM, Saturday:--Information from Berlin indicates that Herr Hitler, after studying the results of the week's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CRUISER: P. AND O. LINER Among Ships Damaged By Mines LONDON
AN Admiralty communique announces that the cruiser Belfast was damaged by a torpedo or a mine in the Firth of Forth on Tuesday, and that 20 members of the crew were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Have High Hopes of Magnetic Mines Not New Invention LONDON
Proclaiming that Germany has the right to wage mine warfare against Britain, Berlin newspapers announce that at a suitable moment drifting mines will be laid along all the principal sea-routes to Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Discovery in Formosa
TOKIO, Sunday: -- A message from Taihoku (capital of Formosa), states that the Formosan Government mining experts have reported the…
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