180 British Miners Dead; Colliery Blaze
LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): A fire roaring through a section of the Creswell Colliery…
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British Mine Disaster Royal Messages of Sympathy
LONDON, Wednesday — Messages of sympathy from the King and Queen and Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) have been…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A stop-work meeting of all F.E.D.F.A. and Miners' Federation employees in open-cut mines on the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. M. Gallagher) has called a compulsory conference at 3 p.m. tomorrow on the dragline dispute, which has thrown all Western New South Wales…
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BOCHUM, (Germany), Friday: Five German miners are believed to have been killed in a collapse in the Enscher-Lippe mine at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Land Gold Cup for Clydesdales Won by Mr. F. H. Handford
Well-known Clydesdale preeder, F. H. Handford, of Grong Grong, won the Land Gold Cup for the second time at the Ardlethan Show on 23rd…
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TOKYO, Wednesday.—(AAP)-Reuter).—An Australian officer and a private were killed when a land mine blew up a Bren-gun…
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SYDNEY. Wednesday: The Miners' Federation has as proached the Coal Industry The coal for a settlement of the…
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WASHINGTON, Friday.—The American mine sweeper, Magpie, was sunk by a floating mine off North Korea on Sunday, and 21…
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SYDNEY, Friday. This man arrested on Thursday night had gold with £3000 on them, Mr. Isles, S. M., was told in the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Western | miners and members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association will stop work on Wednesday to consider' further action on the dragline Issue. I About 2000 men—members of I…
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DARWIN, Monday: The Administrator (Mr. Driver) today confirmed the discovery of black and brown coal deposits 16 miles…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday — It is understood that the Government is considering instructing the security Service to…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The Miners Federation will challenge in the High Court the validity of the Communist Party Dissolution Bill when it becomes law. The Federation has briefed counsel and is…
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CANBERRA, Friday — Federal cabinet today examined the possibility of using the Army to break the Communist-fomented…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb Fond in Coal Truck at Junee Handed to Police for Safety
A bomb was found is a truck during the process of unloading coal at the Junee locomotive roundhouse on Saturday evening last. The railwayman who found the…
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A bomb was fou [?]n a truck during the process [?] unloading coal at the Junee [?] locomotive roundhouse…
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During his stay at a hotel in Rome a few months ago, the Bishop of Wagga (the Most Rev. F. A. Henschke,…
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A bomb was [?] a truck during the process of unloading coal at the Junee Locomotive roundhouse on…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: An excise on coal to provide a fund for building railways to lilt coal has been suggested by the…
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