MINERS LEAVE
• "» (»T TELEGRAM— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) OR E Y MOUTH, This Day. More men Wt for Wellington tin's morning to join the new battalions A number of coalminera from Blackball, also from a small mine near Rpefton, where seven of nine left to-day, wore among them. The latter mine lias been temporarily closed. The list also includes the names of four brothers, a fifth being already in the Dardanelles. A notable feature of last night's farewell speeches was when Harold Erne«t Dcnton stopped from the ranks and said ho had fought hard against compulsory mili la ty training but was now up against the intrigue of Germany and her system of conscription. They had to got out. honourably a-nd woie now going to the front voluntarily
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 2
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126MINERS LEAVE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 2
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