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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923

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Japan Half-ruined. No Financial Reserves Warships Ashore

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 7 September 1923 · page 1

The "Osaka Maintchi" says that Japan loses her position as the fourth world power, she has no financial reserves…

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Tokio and Yokohama in Flames. Appalling Disaster Throws Country Back for Generation. Naval Base Destroyed. Skyscrapers Fall: Islands Overwhelmed ; Ships Wrecked ; Volcanoes Start Afrosh

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 7 September 1923 · page 1

Stricken by typhoon, earthquake and fire. Tokio, Yokohama, and the smaller surrounding towns and villages of Japan have been laid in ruins,…

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Forts Wrecked. Earthquake Damage. VANCOUVER

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 1

"All the harbor fortifications of Yokohama and Tokio are lost," said the captain of the steamer President Jefferson that reached Vancouver…

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Steamer in Distress. New York

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 3

The passenger steamer Sanguil, of [?] tons, has reported herself to be [?]ing in heavy seas to the south-west, Jamaica, and that the passengers…

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Japanese Steamer Overdue. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 October 1923 · page 5

Anxiety is felt for the Japanese steamer Kobun Maru, bound for Sydney from Japan with a cargo of oak. She is 14 days overdue. She is a steel…

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Building Wrecked. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 27 November 1923 · page 3

A strong wind this morning caused tho collapse of a weatherboard structure in the course of erection for the Cumberland Paper Mills Company at…

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Smallpox on a Steamer. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 30 November 1923 · page 5

A Brisbane message says a case of smallpox was discovered on the steamer Victoria when she arrived at Townsville from the East. The…

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s.s Boambee Ashore

Macleay Argus · Friday 21 December 1923 · page 4

The well-known coasting steamer Boambee, belonging to Messrs. Langley Bros., is ashore 100 yards south of the Tweed breakwater[?] and on…

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