SEA TRAPS MINERS
CAUGHT IN SUBMARINE SHAFT DISASTER IN JAPAN (Australian and A'.Z. Press Association) TOKYO, Wednesday. Forty-eight miners were trapped in a coal mine at Kyushiu owing to the sea water breaking through into the workings. A party of rescuers, whose number is uncertain, lias also been cut off through the bursting of some safety doors. All hope of rescuing the trapped men has been abandoned, as the mine, which extends for a considerable distance under tile sea, is completely flooded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 700, 27 June 1929, Page 9
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82SEA TRAPS MINERS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 700, 27 June 1929, Page 9
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