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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943

12 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Beveridge Plan Nearly Wrecks Government

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: A political crisis over the Beveridge Social Security Plan was averted, or at least postponed, today when the House of…

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Held Party on a Wreck

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

LONDON: Thirteen men from a torpedoed ship, drifting in a small boat in mid-Atlantic, came upon the stern half of a broken ship and … held a party…

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Some Drift Ashore Last Chapter In Book

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 March 1943 · page 3

Somewhere in Australia, Tuesday: The communique to-day states that small parties of survivors from the Japanese…

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Wrecking Starts in Germany Conscript Labour At Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 May 1943 · page 4

LONDON: French workers in Germany in the last two months have wrecked 5000 lorries, and wasted 300 tons of petrol…

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Missing Steamer Captured By Japs

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 June 1943 · page 3

Reporters have now been received that the steamer Nanking, 7000 tons, which left Australia for India some time ago, was captured by the enemy…

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[Advertisement] Reds in Control of Labor A.L.P. Platform Wrecked Wake Up, Australia!

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 July 1943 · page 5

Communism has entered into complete control of the parliamentary and industrial wings of the Australian Labour Movement. Labour moderates have been routed by the…

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"A Total Wreck"

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 August 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: A Swiss, who has just returned home from Cologne, stated that the R.A.F. completely destroyed the inner city on…

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What Invasion Means Getting The Supplies Ashore

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 2

Britain and the United Nations have had to learn the technique of seaborne invasion only during the three years since France fell and…

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Girls Drown in Wreck

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 September 1943 · page 2

Geelong: When a fishing boat was wrecked in heavy seas near the south side of Lorne letty, two girls, Fayga Ginter, 1.7 of East Brunswick, and Rose Effron,…

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Soldier Tried to Wreck Cafe Got Six Months Instead

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 October 1943 · page 3

Swearing in front of the waitresses, knocking a tray out of the proprietor's bands, kicking the latter in the stomach…

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Among the First Ashore

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 October 1943 · page 2

When the Allied Armies make an assault landing in enomy-occupied country it is a well-known fact that the Royal Navy convoy the men in assault landing craft. It is not so well known that practically the first troops are the "Naval Beach Party."…

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South Pacific Jap. Steamer Bombed

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 November 1943 · page 1

Somewhere in Australia, Wednesday: A large Japanese steamer north of Rabaul was hit by bombs and left in a sinking condition with flames…

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