Gangs Of Youths Wreck Churches
LONDON, August 22.—There will be neither churches nor religious halls left in the Merseyside dockland if persistent Wreckage by gangs of young…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945
30 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 2
Occupation of Japan Becomes Reality Air-Borne Troops Land At Atsugi; Marines Ashore
NEW YORK, August 30.—The occupation of Japan became a reality when spearhead units of airborne troops landed on Atsugi aerodrome and British…
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Melbourne, October 9.—When a 60 ft. shark boat was wrecked in the Rip at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay early this morning three of the four men…
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MELBOURNE.—"The luckiest man alive," is how Queenscliff people regard Mervyn Clyde Winter (25), only survivor of the wreck of the fishing cutter Thistle, which struck the Corsair Rock, off Point Nepean, at 4 a.m.yesterday…
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London, October 14.—Lloyd's has announced that the British steamer Oceana has struck a mine of Heligoland and has radioed that it is "unable to manoeuvre."…
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From Reg Harris in Hongkong, October 2.—Three hundred passengers aboard a Chinese coastal steamer were robbed by Chinese pirates almost within sight and gunrange of British warships lying in Victoria Harbor. Hongkong, yesterday…
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BRISBANE. — The two-storied home of Mr. A. E. Simpson, at Coorparoo, a suburb of Brisbane, was wrecked when the hot water…
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LONDON.—An ammunition-laden motor vessel, the Empire Gatehouse, ablaze in one of its holds, signalled for a lifeboat to take off its crew…
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Sydney, December 30.—Police inquiries have established that [?]elignite was used in the sensational explosion which partially [?]recked two buildings and damaged three other premises at Captain's Flat, an isolated, but highly important mining township on…
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SYDNEY.—Police who were rushed from Goulburn and Sydney yesterday to investigate a terrific gelignite explosion at Captain's Flat have not…
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