EIGHTY KILLED IN GERMAN MINE ACCIDENT
+ — : Received Monday, 11 a.m. BERLIN, Nov. 2. The United States Military Government newspaper, Neue Zeitung, reported today that 80 workers were killed when a mine shaft at Erzgebirge uranium works at Aue, in the Soviet zone, collapsed on October 22. v The paper said that conditions at the mine, for which the Russians recently recruited 30,000 workers, were bad. Safety precautions were lacking and ladders were the only means of dekcent. Reuter's eorrespondent says that security precautions have allowed very little information about uranium mining in the Soviet zone to come out of Saxony.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 November 1947, Page 5
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