Window Wrecked Heavy Damage At Craig's Shop
Damage estimated at £70 was caused when a car crashed through a huge plate glass window at J. W. Craig and Sons'…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
34 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Steamer Sunk
OSLO, Sunday: A mine sank the steamer Fredville In the North Sea on Thursday. The Swedish steamer May, sailing…
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AUCKLAND, Monday: When the large yacht Ngahuia was wrecked at Matakana Island, near Tauranga, in a gale early yesterday morning, only…
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AMSTERDAM, Monday: A U-boat torpedoed and sank the Dutch steamer Arendskerk 7900 tons in the Bay of Biscay. She was laden with peace…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: An attempt to wreck a machine worth £15.000 was made recently at the Pyrmont works of the Colonial Sugar Refining…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Considerable damage wan caused on an overseas cargo steamer in the harbour this morning when a large mast crashed…
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Raging through the timbered country between Mounts Mugga and Narrabundah on Thursday afternoon, a cyclone carved a…
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LONDON; Wednesday: The British freighter Sultan Star was torpedoed 230 miles south-west of Lauds End. according to a wireless message…
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Does he look as if he is enjoying his first meal ashore. A scene after the landing in the Middle…
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LONDON, Sunday: German planes bombed the steamer Domala, carrying 301 British and indian passengers, whom Germans, had released. The…
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LONDON, Sunday: An Admiralty press notice to-night States: The German steamer, ss. Hanover of 5600 tons, was…
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BURNIE, Monday: The Union Company's freighter, Kahika (1537 tons), sunk a few minutes after she struck an uncharted rock off the north-west coast of Tasmania on Saturday night…
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“I drank the eight quarts of beer and no one else had any of it,” declared Mark David Deveridge, licensee of Tattersall Hotel, Rozelle, in…
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LONDON, Wednesday: The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, in the House of Commons this afternoon, gave an account of the engagement between five British destroyers and six…
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LONDON: Thirteen men lay down to die in a lifeboat. They were in the last stages of exhaustion, and had given up all…
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Scene in Namur, Belgium, after Nazi bombers had done their deadly work. Houses on both sides of this street were wrecked, debris almost covering the roadway. Namur was one of the Belgian fortress towns which held out so gallantly…
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SYDNEY, Friday: A message from Brisbane states that an American cargo ship of 3500 tons from San Francisco, went ashore at a Pacific…
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LONDON, Tuesday: The Japanese authorities at Shanghai have seized the British steamer Hsenking carrying munitions…
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In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents Still Wrecking Homes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
In three days last week seven children were tendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the…
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