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l-'OR MINE-SWEEPERS

... D.S.M. Christmas-box. Today have been warning shipping the war channel of mine* adrift: what with wind and sea, you can guess has been cold on deck. one allowed below when mines are about. Just at Christmas I had 36 hours on tho bridge. We've just got ...

NEW DIFFICULTY THE COLLIERIES. STOPPAGE FOR WAGGONS, new difficulty hae arisen, vrhicb causing anxiety colliery ..

... some towns, where schools boon closed for weeks together. Mr. IX Witton Booth, the Divisional Officer of the Board Trade's Mines Deportment, states to-day tliat the strikes the South Yorkshire coalfield hsvs seriously depleted At present many the industrial ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1919
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN EXPERT SHOWS WHY IT IS

... “districts” in the mines to closed. further, voluntary enlistments and the “comb-out” came along the coal owners found that they could not the full amount repairs. When they came to be assessed to excess profit© duty and later on to coal mines excess payments ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1919
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 736 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... county at polite 30 rn lee apart, and he hoped one of these at Darlington. where , t ncght be o: fret , UITISN MINE-SWEEPER SUNK. THE DANGER OF MINES IN THE BALTIC. hao rat:rived at o`, a siatai cit.:rag :n fla!tiic, he ran i tango, a nine sweeper. Laving ...

ALL THAT A BELGIAN COLONY

... household furnishings of houses the Belgian township of Elizabeth vide. Tho story of this little town, set on the edge of the mining and iron-wonting village and named after tho Queen of the Belgians, is one of the minor romanoes of the war. the early days ...

Published: Monday 26 May 1919
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 701 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CORN

... buiidiug, iron and steel, cotton, woollen and worsted, chemical, explosives, boot and shoe, transport, printing, hosiery, coal-mining, railways, and shipping. Premier's Assurance, The Prime Minister, in announcing the Ooverument’s policy that wages should ...

Published: Tuesday 21 January 1919
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1568 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON DAY BY DAY

... with our mine-sweepers throughout the war, and for the greater part of the time has been Director of Mine-Sweeping at the Admiralty. In March last, when minesweeping seemed likely to be held up through lack of men, Captain Preston organised the mine clearance ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1919
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1271 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

railway companion during stress take away Die material. He know there was eery great difficulty during the war ..

... pay of worst situated mines. | and that under competitive system of private ownership it was not always possible to keep up nrioee. If the minee were owned the State, asked, would it rot possible to assist the worst situated mines rather than shut them ...

FRIDAF. APRIL 11. 1919

... was obtained from tefa forage and grain consumed. To meet the requirement* mechanical and traffic, the upkeep o maximum of Mine 4,600 milet roadway was entrusted to the Directorate of Roads. Some idea the work involved may be obtained from the fact that ...