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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
71 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
Although General Headquarters communique announced there is nothing to report at Tobruk, it is officially reported In Berlin that concentrated fire by Italian and German artillery frustrated attempts by British armoured wits to conduct a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An explosion in a turbo-alternator machine at Zara-st., power house, Newcastle. on June 30, caused the death of a man and the destruction of the machine, which it is said cost £63,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fortune favours the brave and also the foolhardy. Times without number motorists take risks driving down Campbell’s Hill, whilst other exceed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A shepherds dog advancing towards the shepherd with something in his mouth, which he recognised as part of a plane, led to the discovery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shepherd's dog advancing towards the shepherd with something in its mouth, which he recognised as part of a plane, led to the discovery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavily censored reports from Vichy indicate that the shooting has signalled a new outbreak of wrecking and sabotage throughout France…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The bodies of the three victims of Wednesday's plane crash near Coen, on Cape York Peninsula, were recovered from the burnt wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large scale rioting occurred recently at Linz (Upper Austria), where Hermann Goering's steelworks are situated. The workers destroyed blast furnaces when demands were refused for raising the wage level of imported Italian workers. Local stormtroopers and police fired on the workers, who replied with guns, apparently hidden for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The costal ship of about 400 tons which was beached near Fingal Head after striking a reef was sold by auction for £505 in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The police are awaiting the arrival in Sydney of a launch to learn details of a reported drowning. The coastal ketch, Moana Lua, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Washington is finally convinced that President Roosevelt is in earnest and that the attempt to win the war without fighting has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Details were made avaliable that night of the death of [?] a leading member of the [?] sort clung who was washed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ministry of Shipping is introducing an elaborate series of livesaving measures for ship-wrecked merchant seamen. One of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For five minutes after Clifford Martin, a leading member of the Bondi Surf Club, was washed overboard from the 38ft. ketch Moana…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The State Department has announced the loss of another American ship in the Atlantic. The Pink Star, which is Americanowned, but flying the Panamian flag, was sunk near Iceland on Friday last. The ship, which was fomerly the Danish vessel Lundby,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports of major operational activities on the Russian front continue to reflect some diminution in the scale of fighting but certainly not in ferocity or intensity…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When a brick factory wall, 16 feet high and 157 feet long, crashed into a Fitzroy street during a gale, John Edwards, 71, a pensioner, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →“The harbour and anchorages of the Norwegian port of Aalesund—one of the bases from which Hitler supplies his northern, Russian front—would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Movements of Britain's population will be taken into account before decisions are finally made to build again the churches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An agency report from Rewet to-day declared that several rafts were washed ashore at ?. They were identified of belonging to the…
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