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Topical Budget 502-1: The Greatest Menace We Have Ever Known (1921)
 

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THE GREATEST MENACE WE HAVE EVER KNOWN "Opening scenes in the historic Coal War of 1921. While the mines were flooding miners watch Cardiff play Notts Forest"..."Even the colliers have to search the slag heaps for fuel"..."3,000 gallons a minute pouring in at Llwynpia, but 25 men have been permitted to pump"..."Types of the Pit ponies which were left to drown in some of the Mines". Scenes covering the coal strike [order of the intertitles may be incorrect].