... courteous Cooks governesses milliners in faot help of kind COAL CANADA estimated in 0000 miles of coal beds 112 billion tons mining developed rapidly production during 1910 amounting to no coal in this brourfat rich to the Scotian coal owners The NEW BRITISH ...

... drain on the enemy's forces is considerable and persistent. It is at lent A addition to the price in blond be is plying on the &mine. The bembii.rdmcut of Ids poeitime in Flanders hselly ever einem, and today it resealed a point of high intensity. no that ...

... M.P., ON COMBING OUT. Speaking at Bedford yesterday, Mr Kellauay, M.P.. private secretary to Dr Addison, said:—A friend mine -who knows the Civil Service well tells me that, in his opinion, tiiere are not six indispensable men in any of the Government ...

... COMBING OUT THE MINES. NOTICES RECEIVED AT COLLIERIES. It has been decided the Government that a large number of men are to be immediately released from the coal mines of the country for military service, and notices to this effect were received at every ...

... \%, out scheme. The Travelling visited Pontypridd, and at the jpePM liery dealt with nearly a hundred > . had entered the mine since r ro It was stated that a good Kft , men were passed for general £ ! in the day the Medical Board '? l! ,ul 1 town, and ...

... is informed, the War Office. With regard to the cases of men who pre vious to 14th August, 1915, had some been employed in mining, but were actually that date engaged in some other occupation, instructions have been given that men who wero bona-fide miners ...

... DANGER OF MINES BEING LAID IDLE. Owners' Protest Against “Combing” Out Methods. ' The Home Office, according to the ,South? Wales and Monmouthshire Coal Owners’ Association, after having been warned that the “ combing out »’ of collieries might mean a’ ...

... the Court shall be held at some place away from the mine convenient to the workmen. (2) The action of certain managers in requiring men to hand their certificates _o. exemption the management of the mine was unauthorised. Men attending before the Colliery ...

... reach Kut with food for our beleaguered troops. The Home Secretary's instructions regulating the combing out of men in coal mines provide for the withdrawal of exemption from miners who are persistent absentees. ...

... were slight. The blew a mine yesterday west of Vimy. Little damage resulted. We entered the enemy's trenches during the night south-east of Souchez, and took 21 prisoners and machine g'in. Another machine gun and an enemy mine were destroyed, and several ...

... secretary of the Association, to. become a member of the Government Adyisory Committee. in connection with control of the mines, and approved of his acceptance, | ...

... gone into the mines since August, 1915, exception being made in the case of men whom the colliery owners could prove indispensable. It had been agreed that youths of eighteen years who had been brought up mines or had been engaged in pits prior to the outbreak ...