... and Empire. Ration cards for all cotton and linen goods have been introduced in Sweden. A coal shortage attributed to the mines combout has occurred Nottingham. Steps have been taken comb-out from army pay offices men fit for combatant service. A man ...

... COMBING-OUT IN THE MINES. At a special conference of the South Wales Miners’ Federation Cardiff yesterday the recruiting scheme approved by the Blackpool Conference was discussed, and it was decided that the Federation take no part in assisting the recruiting ...

... medical Board visited Pontypridd and examined nearly a hundred men employed at the Maritime Colliery who have entered the mine since A/ugust, 1915. It was stated that good percentage of the men were passed for general service. Later in the day about ...

... Wales Coalfield on the scheme agrsed upon between the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain and Governm nt for the out frrm mines young unmarried men between eighteen and twenty-five The form of baHct paper was agreed to a meeting the Executive Coa oil ...

... the committee, placed before the Prime Minister the result of ballot just taken on the question of supplying 50,000 from the mines for military service. The figures were as follow : —For the comb-out, 221,152; against the combout. 250,522. In reply, the ...

... mercantile shipping. One bundled thousand men had been tateen from munitions; fifty thousuud had been called from the coal mines, and a call for another fifty thousand would made. All tit men below would b© taken from civil service, and the same would ...

... to show that it had once been forest. As for its surface, it was chaos, riddled with shell holes that touch one another and mine craters round which the fighting never ceases. Vauquois was once a village perched on hill; its houses and its church tower ...