Machinery Wrecked Left Unattended Charges Against Munition Worker Sydney, January 20
When Robert Henry Brand, a munitions worker, was proceeded against under National Security Regulations at the Central Summons…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
36 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 2
Menindee Steamer Coming From South Australia
The Renmark river steamer, is expected to leave Morgan (S.A.) on January 26, for Menindee with a large cargo of wire which will be railed from here to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman's Ordeal in Lifeboat Husband and Two Children Missing Recife. Brazil, January 36
After 51 days in an open lifeboat, Mrs. Gordon, of Victoria, Australia, and James Whyte, third officer of a torpedoed British merchantman, are convalescing in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap Base at Dobo Wrecked Another Successful Raid On Buin Somewhere in Australia, February 9
A Former seaplane base of Dobo, in the Aru Islands will not be of much use for the Japanese for the present. A series of carefully planned Allied attacks culminated in a co-ordinated Dutch Australian raid yesterday morning, which blotted out practically…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Smashes Boat in Sydney Harbor
SYDNEY.—When a large steamer collided with an anchored rowing boat under the Harbor Bridge yesterday the three occupants of the latter, two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menindee Steamer Renmark's Visit
On Tuesday evening of last week the river steamer Renmark arrived in Menindee with a cargo of 250 tons of wine and brandy. The boat left for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stealing From Fire Wreck
It will be remembered that a few weeks ago a fire destroyed the home of Mr. Charles colley at south Broken Hill and Mrs. Colley lost her life. Since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jap Base Wrecked Canberra March 3
The Air Minister Mr. Drakeford announced today that Dobo base only 440 miles north-west of Darwin and used by the Japanese as a base for hostile…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mopping Up Japanese Drifting Ashore After The Bismarck Sea Battle
FROM Our Correspondent, Somewhere In Australia.—Small parties of survivors from Japanese ships sunk in the Bismarck Sea are drifting ashore. Fifty-five reached the coast of New Guinea, but all were killed or captured. Another party of 42 drifting ashore at Waibula (Goodenough…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vandals Wreck Kindergarten
SYDNEY.—The Golden Fleece Kindergarten in Chippendale was wrecked by vandals during the week end for the third…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bodies of Three Army Men in Wrecked Plane
MELBOURNE.—The bodies of three army men were found in a wrecked plane which disappeared nearly a fortnight ago in jungle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kitchen Wrecked At One Blow
MELBOURNE.—Whelan the Wrecker, wrecked an Ascot Vale kitchen with one blow on Saturday. While the driver was getting water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air War in Europe Germany's Internal Structure Being Methodically Wrecked LONDON. May 17
The unprecedented activity of Allied air forces operating from Britain and elsewhere last week is no longer regarded in London as merely strategical bombing, but as the "Battle of Germany itself." The enemy's whole internal structure is being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World's Safest Lifeboat
LONDON, May 18.—The world has been given its safest lifeboat by Mr. Francois Lowe, joint managing director of the Lamport Holt Line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Told of Wreckage of Dams London, May 28
The first account of the Eder and Moline floods published in German newspapers appears in "Frankfurter Zeitung." It was written guardedly and does not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Invasion Force Trained and Ready Germany Watching For Blows From Several Points Dependence on U-boat Fleet to Wreck Landing Operations London, June 8
Brigadier Noce, America's amphibious warfare expert, stated today that the landing point for an Allied invasion and the shores adjacent had been considered. Men of all arms had been specially trained and stood ready. Equipment had been assembled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boilermakers' Claims Hazards on Wreckage Sydney, June 10
Difficulties under which bollermakers work when engaged on wreckage were related by witnesses in the federal Arbitration Court today when an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nazi Planes Drop Bombs On Britain Post Office Wrecked London, June 18
A small number of enemy planes last night were over ports of south-east and southern England, according to today's Air Ministry communique. One flew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Nankin Captured by Japs
It was revealed today that the steamer Nankin which left Australia for India a considerable time ago, and which disappeared, was captured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What Invasion Means Getting Men and Supplies Ashore
Britain and the United Nations have had to learn the technique of seaborne invasion only during the three years since France fell and the Allies lost their…
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