MAGNIFICENT HEROISM.
Mine Rescues in South Africa. CAPE TOWN, May 29. South Africa is thrilled by the magnificent heroism of a European and native rescue party' which for 72 hours worked 0000 feet deep in the Robinson Deep Mine, Johannesburg, to save 14 natives entombed by a great fall of rock. Seven of the natives were rescued alive. The rescuers tunnelled upwards from a lower level to where the natives were tiapped, knowing that one false move work bring down thousands of tons of rock upon them. They worked in a temperature of over 100 degrees, stripped to the waist, hewing their upward
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 26 (Supplement)
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103MAGNIFICENT HEROISM. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 26 (Supplement)
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