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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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Modest accounts of the experiences which revealed outstanding courage and fortitude were given by survivors of the torpedoed hospital ship Centaur. Entangled in ropes and broken booms from the boat…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK May 24 —The crack Pennsylvania railway train, “Nelbe[?],” was deraded on a horse-shoe curve near Delair, New Jersey, last night, killing 14, including two members of the crew, and injuring at least 89 holiday-makers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON May 20 —It is revealed that an air[?] two engined [?] was plane for the first time when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Japanese airmen washed ashore in a rubber dinghy on an island off the Australian coast and taken prisoner have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON May 31 — Three teachers and 17 or 18 children were killed when German raiders attacked a south west coastel town, said by German radio to be Torquary (Devonshire) yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON June 1—Flying unescorted for 400 miles hours land and sea, Flying Fortresses for the third time in 96 hours again attacked Foggis, which is not only a big Italian eviation base, but a vital communications centre…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON June 7—The Russian are operating a novel variation of the “W” plan on the Leningrad front, says Reuter’s correspondent is Stockholm. They are digging tunnels under the enemy lines, from which Soviet troops…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AUCKLAND (NZ) Thursday— The Aiv Department has received advice that Wreckage believed to be that of the Royal New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage has been found, which, it is believed, is portion of the R.N.Z.A.F. flying-boat, reported missing while on a sea flight in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON June 14—Over 30 hours after an attack on Dusseldorf last Friday night many fires were still burning in the city. A heavier load of bombs was dropped on Dusseldorf…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It was revealed to-day that the steamer Nankin which left Australia some time ago for India, and which disappeared was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON June 22—The Queen deputised for the King at a recent investiture at Buckingham Palace, when she decorated Wing Commander G. P. Gibson, VC, and his colleagues in the successful attack on the Ruhr dams…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH—Two explosions occured in a garage attached to Dr. Maurlce Gorman’s residence at Keigoorlte at 130 a m on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two detonations shook the centre of Kalgoorlie at 1.30 a.m. on Saturday, when what are believed to have been dynamite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Withdrawal of the Ninth Division after El Alamein by the Curtin Government necessitated complete reor[?]ganisation of the Eighth Army, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The three-pronged assault on German installations in France—on the first anniversary of the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain and the United States have had to learn the technique of seaborne invasion only during the three years since Prance fell and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communism has entered into complete control of the parliamentary ,and industrial wings of the Australian Labor Mcvement. Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A United States Navy pharmacist’s mate, demonstration in an experimental tank how shipwrecked seamen [?] make sea water through a process developed at the Navy’s Medical Research Institute, transfers sea water, from which the chlorides…
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