The French Catastrophe
MEN BELOW BOOMED. DESTROYING 900 CORPSES. Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. PARIS, March 16. It is believed that none of the entombed men in die Oourriorcs will' now survive, owing to the impossibility of raising the surface. It is intended to destroy nine hundred bodies still tin the galleries by means of quicklime. BRITISH RELIEF FUND. LONDON, March 10. The Labour members of the House of Commons hope to raiise a Parliamentary relief fund of £IOOO. THE MINERS’ STRIFE. PARIS, March 17. Received IRd), 4.110 p.m. Twenty thousand men are on strike in the Lins district, Pas Boculais, and die movement is still spreading. (Tile st Hike commenced after the tragedy in the Courrieres mines).
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Southland Times, Issue 19768, 19 March 1906, Page 2
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120The French Catastrophe Southland Times, Issue 19768, 19 March 1906, Page 2
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