FRANCE.
THE DISASTER AT COURRIERES.
ENGINEERS ACCUSED OP NEGLIGENCE. Received April 2, 8.45 a.m. PARIS, April 1. A live horse has been found in a seoond pit at Courrieres, in addition to the bodies of several miners who had been dead only a day. The Matin violently attacks the engineers for their negligence in not exploring the galleries, and suggests that they are responsible for the death of all those not killed by firedamp. Two hundred and 3fty miners and engineers are now exploring the mine, but the work is exhausting owing to the prevalence of noxious gas.
FOR VALOUR.
Received April 2, 10.46 D.m. PARIS. April 2. M. JJarthon, Minister for Works, has conferred the Cross of the Legion of Honour on Nemy and Pruvost for leading the surviving miners to the rescue of entombed comrades. Gold medals have been conferred on eleven others, and the Minister will confer the decoration of the Chevalier of the Legitin of Honour on the chief of the German Salvage Corps, who took part in the rescue operations,*and gold medals ou the rest of the corps.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8110, 3 April 1906, Page 5
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183FRANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8110, 3 April 1906, Page 5
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