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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944

27 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 2

200 Whales Washed Ashore Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 October 1944 · page 2

Two hundred whales washed [?] at Prime’s Beach yesterday [?] shore for more than five miles. [?] health authorities are considering [?]…

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Claimed Politics Wrecked Her Home SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 October 1944 · page 2

In the divorce court today a woman claimed that her marriage had been wrecked because her husband became engrossed in polities, He brought…

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Wreckage From Battered Calais

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 October 1944 · page 6

Before and at the fall of Calais, smoke from the wreckage caused by the heavy fighting could be seen for miles. Here demolished buildings in the harbor area…

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Travelled Under “Deplorable Conditions” One Steamer Referred To As “Hell Ship” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 November 1944 · page 5

South African brides of Australlian servicemen and their babies who recently arrived in Sydney, travelled from their homeland under conditions that were deplorable. At lead one of like the babies was very much underweight and became…

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Port of Rotterdam Wrecked £100 Million Damage London, November 18

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1944 · page 1

Rotterdam as a port is finished, slates the “Sunday Express,” quoting information from the Dutch Government in London…

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Nazis’ Hopes Wrecked Great Results From E.A.T.S. MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 November 1944 · page 2

Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of the signing of a document that was destined to become one of the turning points in the history of the war…

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Home-made Steamer

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 December 1944 · page 4

A steamer in which to make pud[?]dings or to steam vegetables can be made out on old sandwich tin and cake tin…

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