... men. The Government proposed have a strict comb-out of essential industries. Men had been recruited from the munitions and mining industries, and a further 50,000 would necessary from the latter. Transport and Civil Service would have further calls made ...

... daring the most reckless sacrU flee of human life, he has as vet made little progress towards his goals. We owe this to the mined fighting and self-sacrifice of our troops. Words fail me to express the admiration which I feel for the splendid resistance ...

... be obtained at the those local authorities. applications in respect of men employed as underground surt'ace workers at coal mines are certain cases d*»alt with by colliery lecruiring courts instead bv local tribunals. to whom the Act applies, who now become ...

... south of Arras, yards of the enemy’s trenches being cleared and casualties inflicted. Yesterday afternoon the enemy blew a mine heir Souchez. damage was done, and have occupied near lip. A captured document signed by (ieaeral von Talkenbayn, while Chief ...

... dealt with a number of posttoned cases of workmen the mines who bad taken that class of employment since August. '915. They refused exemption in all the cases, agreed with the chairman that the mines must not be used as a dumping ground for young men of ...

... released from the coal mines of the country for military service, and notices to this effect were received at every colliery in Great Britain yesterday. The men to called up include the following classes (i) Those who have entered the mines since August 14th ...

... cent. l/)NDON. Wedne» ...

... Yorkshire ha?, they will have got 300.000. never mind 50,000. They must not are all num?V”lls because we are broupht in coal mines. There are few of us with our heads screwed on the way.—Yours sincerely, BLACK FACE. Near Rotherham. April 19th. 1918. Concerning ...