Pilot-passenger Escape Plane Wrecked MELBOURNE
The pilot and a passenger had a remarkable escape from serious injury when a Wackett training plane coming in to land at Berwick aerodrome…
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Pilot m Wrecked Spitfire Identified MELBOURNE
RAAF authorities to-day revealed the identity of the Spitfire pilot whose machine was found by an aborigine in Fog Harbor swamp. 40 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waves and Wind Batter Ketch BRISBANE
Battered by 50 foot waves and a 50 m.p.h. wind, which snapped the main boom like a carrot, the 74 foot ketch, Malangi, has now been repaired in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400 PASSENGERS drowned [?] Steamer Strikes Mine London
It is reported that 400 out of [?] passengers aboard the steamer Chimmara which was on its way to Pireus (Greece) were drowned when it struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warns Against “Red Wreckers” BRISBANE
Wage-earners must refuse to be misted by mischievous Individuals with no sense of regard for Australian working class organisation and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Corvette Unable to Put Boat Ashore at Lady Elliot Island BRISBANE
The RAN corvette Lithgow, which proceeded to Lady Elliott Island with a doctor to attend the lighthousekeeper, could not get a boat to the island…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleges Trooper Is “Hell Ship” Soldiers Swim Ashore From Manoora at Brisbane Brisbane
When the troopship Manoora loaded with 15,000 soldiers and airmen bound for Japan arrived at Brisbane this afternoon, military…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Drunks” Cause Trouble on British Steamer SYDNEY
An officer used an axe to cut the mooring lines, holding the 6,000 ton British freighter Romney to the wharf Darling Harbor yesterday when in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pigs, Famished, Trample Each Other Down Wreck Troughs at Albury Abattoir
In a report to Albury City Council last evening the abattoir superintendent said.— “On Monday evening, January 20…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured on River Paddle Steamer
Mr. Stan Dare, of Melbourne, who has been holidaying in Yarrawonga, was injured on Saturday afternoon when be fell down the hatchway of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big British Plane Wrecked at Mascot Sydney
Prompt action by a fire tender crew at Mascot airport today prevented what might have been a tragedy when a BOAC Lancastrian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burning Steamer Driven Ashore LONDON
Lloyds reports that the burning steamer Samwater which was abandoned on January 30 off Cape Finisterre with the loss of 20 lives, has been driven ashore on Ciss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rescue From Wrecked Irish Ship LONDON
The entire crew of 35 of the Irish steamer Irish Glane (4700 tons) was rescued after she had run aground on Saturday night on the rocky coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man’s Spine Injured. Fell Into Steamer’s Hold
Mr Stan Dare, of Melbourne, who has been holidaying in Yarrawonga, was injured recently. He was living on the paddle steamer “Australien,”…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →130 Bodies Already Recovered Fire on Chinese Steamer Hong Kong
The bodies of 130 persons were removed from the charred hulk of the river steamer Saigon several hours after the vessel caught are at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man’s Story Proved Is Survivor of Ketch, Nova BRISBANE
Police are now convinced that James Leslie Cush, who was sentenced to a month’s gaol yesterday on a charge of vagrancy, is the sole survivor of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Wreck London Agreement” London
Reuter’s correspondent in Rangoon states that the leaders of all Burmese parties except the anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Building Costs May Wreck Housing Programme Grave Concern Expressed At Federal-State Conference CANBERRA
Grave concern that rising building costs, might wreck the Commonwealth and State housing arrangement was expressed by the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Lemmon) to a conference of State and Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Fumigated; Dead Rats Found HOBART
Prior to leaving Sydney for Hobart with a cargo which included 800 tons of bagged sugar, the steamer Ormiston was fumigated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arabs Attack British Steamer LONDON
Hundreds of Arabs, armed with rifles and daggers, who attacked the British steamer, Starofmex, after she grounded near Ras E[?] Khabba in the Persian…
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