... Secretary : I hereby withdraw all certificates of exemption issued on grounds of employment to persons employed in or about coal mines. (1)' Who, on 2nd November, 1915, married or widowers with .children dependent on them, and Shall have on the Ist May, 1918 ...

... DERBYSHIRE. COMBED OUT OF THE MINES. Military Representathe Challenges Right of Appeal. ...

... Committee, placed before the Prime Minister the result of the ba:lot just taken or. the question of supplying 50,000 from the mines for military service. The figures were as follows: For the comb-out Against the comb•out Majority against 29,570 The Prime ...

... combing out Against . . Northumberland miners hate voted in favonr of the Government's proposals to comb 50,000 men from the mines. . A mass meeting of engineers at Newcastle, on Saturday, adopted the delegates' report on the Government's modified Man-Power ...

... out, however, that it should be remembered that in orkshirc six days per week were worked, and that the mines were very deep. Workers in deep mines became exhausted sooner than those in shallow minhs, and could not keep up as some people anticipated. Further ...

... The Second. STOCKHOLM, Sunday. The second German ice-breaker has been sunk by mines off the Aaland' Islands. The Social Demokraten states that the Germans have seized the steamer Baltic, belonging to the Red Guards. Several German vessels have left ...

... 5 C.P. 83 / 1 14// Spies Pet 619 7 1 6 Ural Casa. 5 &53 2 %2 DIVIDENDS. Nov: Heriot Gold Mining.—Owing to the heavy loss caused by the flooding of the mine during February, the directors have decided to pass the dividend Cock's Pioneer Gold and Tin ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... men will be withdrawn who Ihave entered the mines since August, 1914, although a large number of these have already been combed out. The number which the National Service Minis- try has stipulated from the mining industry in the present instance is 50,000 ...