... districts regarding the modified scheme of recruiting. The President further reported that the combing out of the men from She mines who had gone into them since August. 1914, was vigorously gone on with, and completed before the new scheme would take effect ...

... Thursday next, The man-power position was put before the Council, showing that 50,000 more bona fide mine workers were asked for from the coal mines of Great Britain. We were sorry to learn at headquarters, said Mr. Smith, that the 1914 comb out was ...

... the Extremists. Warships anchored off the town opened fire. t The latest official return British merchant shipping sunk by mine or submarine during the week ended last Saturday says that six ships of all classes were sunk, decrease of fewer than seventeen ...

... Inspector of Mines, as chairman of the Derbyshire Colliery Recruiting Court, that men refused exemption at that Court were at liberty to bring their cars before the local tribunals. _ _ _ Mr. Skinner .also contended that men who had gone into the mine since ...

... football for two years, afterwards returning to the pit, where he had worked since. The Chairman (Mr. H. A. Abbott. H.M. Mines Inspector); You would probably have remained a footballer if professionalism had not been stopped Applicant: Well, I don’t ...

... instance it under stood that men will withdrawn who entered the mines since August, 1914, large number these have already combed out. number which the Service Minis. Vs stipulated from the mining industry in V present instance is 50.000, and the various ,h ...

... millions a year. ‘he Proclamation does not apply te The number of men to be taken from rotection certificates or agricultural the mines for military service is now race tically complete. In some of the di-tric ts| Vouchers. Men in Grade 3 born in 1900 who ar€ ...

... removed when work is slack in one miners are required in another. It was reported that the combing-out of men who had en! the mines since August, 1914, was being carried out in various istricts It was decided that the Federation be represen- tions shortly ...

... four young miners, who joined up with the first quota from Creswell Colliery, under the Miners' Comb-out, had been killed by mine explosion at an East Coast camp where they had been in training since April. Their names are: J. Sharpe, Duchess Street; H ...

... is a good market at 38s to 40s f.o.b. Tyne, this being the only item in the market which is riot controlled. Pit props and mining timber are extremely scarce, but imports on a limited scale are expected ere long. Extraof of Meat.--Tnterim dividend of 10 ...

... sudden noise or upset of any mines. An area of 121,000 square miles! kind threw me into a panic of fear. That speaks of mines in vast numbers. Usually this nervous disturbatice was fol- = “Apparently the delivery of the mines lowed up with a terrible feeling ...

... Recruiting Court sat at the Memorial Hall, Chesterfield, yesterday, to hear appeals from men who had been combed out of the mines owing to there having been a break in their service during the war period. A good number of claims was dealt with, but the ...