Powder Factory Wrecked Mexico City Jan. 10
An explosion totally wrecked a powder factory in the city. The owner states that the explosion was caused by sabotage…
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Heavy Rain Wrecks Two Homes
Suffering from head injuries received when his house collapsed upon him at Wyrallah during a violent storm on Friday night, Staffort Henry Brook…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →250 Lives Lost Steamer Torpedoed, San Juan (Puerto Rivo), Jan. 28
The torpedoing of an allied steamer was reported to-day by the captain of a ship who announced that he had rescued 71 of the crew and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crew of Pilot Steamer On Strike for War Loading MELBOURNE
Ten members of the crew of the pilot steamer Victoria went on strike to-day because Judge Beeby had not included them in the group of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TWO U.S. Vessels Wrecked Washington
One hundred and eighty-nine officers and men lost their lives in the wreck of the old U.S. destroyer Truxton and the cargo ship Pollux in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Battered by Typhoon Steamer Crippled Off Aus- Talien Coast Sydney
Three Chinese seamen were seriously injured, one critically, when ship ran into a typhoon 34 hours it had left an Australian port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pemmican in the Life-boats [?]Skimos' Ration Saves Ship-wrecked Sailors
Eskimos and trappers of the Frozen North who ate their dried strips of caribou meat or pemmi[?]an, have passed on the idea of this highly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →H.M.S. Havoc Totally Wrecked. London. April 7
The Admiralty announces that the destroyer HMS Havoc has been totally wrecked off the Tun[?]sian coast. The Havoc was under the command of [?]deut-Commander…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Cargo Steamer Held It Sydney
Regulation 77 should be applied to shipowners responsible for the delay in unloading cargo in a 15,000-ton vessel now lying at an Australian port, said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Men From Hmas Perth Japanese Report ?50 Swam Ashore London. April 24
Quoting the Domei Japanese Press Agency. Tokio radio studies that 250 men from HMAS Perth succeeded in swimming ashore. An officer said that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Africa's Sheep Provide Lifeboat Gloves for Shipwrecked Mariners
The skins of South African sheep are to-day helping to save the lives of shipwrecked British sailors. Sheepskin gloves, large and warm,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosion Kills 250 German-Controlled Wrecked Factory LONDON, May 1
It Is officially reported in Berlin that 250 were killed and over 1000 injured in an explosion at a chemical factory at Tessenderloo, 10 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plane Wreckage Found; Eight Lives Lost Los Angeles, May 8
The wreckage of an army transport plane which carried Major-General Herbert Dargue and seven other members of the Army Air Corps to their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage of Plane Sighted Auckland (Nz)
The wreckage or an Airways plane missing since Thursday was sighted from the air this morning. 4000 feet up Mount Richmond. 16 miles from Nelson. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier’s Body Washed Ashore LAUNCESTON
The body of another victim of the mail plane crash [?] Flinders Island on Friday wan implied ashore yesterday, it was that of a member of the Australian Military…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Submarines off Coast of Australia One Steamer Sunk Over 25 of Crew Missing Bravery of Wireless Operator MELBOURNE
Two cargo vessels were attacked by enemy submarines 35 miles east of Sydney, and a third ship was attacked 225 miles south of Sydney. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bodies of Japs in Sub Wreckage SYDNEY
It was officially announced last night by Naval Intelligence that the bodies of some Japanese had been found in wre[?]kage of two enemy submarines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U-boat '“Milks” Steamer New York. June 9
The Rio de Janiero correspondent of United Press states that the captain of the Spanish steamer Aldecoa informed the maritime police that a U-boat hailed the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yugo-slay Steamer Torpedoed Lourenco Marques, June 17
The Yugo-Stay steamer Su[?]etar was torpedoed on June 13 in Mozambique Channel, 100 miles south of Beira. The first officer paid that a torpedo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb Wrecks Party Office London, June 25
Berlin radio says it is reported from Paris that a time bomb demolished the Nantes office of M. Doriot's Popular Party. Similar explosions at the party…
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