Philippines President’s Plane Found Wrecked Due to Using Pre-war Map MANILA
President Roxas’ personal plane, with 15 Government officials aboard, was found wrecked today in Mindanao on the slopes of Mount Katanglad, 15…
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Steamer Sinks; 14 lives Lost MONTREAL
The steamer Emperor, 7031 tons, struck rocks in Lake Superior and sank. Fourteen lives have been lost…
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Forced to [?] to for 24 hours off Gabo Island because huge seas were throwing its propeller clear of the water, making steering impossible, the…
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Two seamen spent last night—their first night ashore since leaving England on the Asturias three months ago—in the City Morgue…
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Strikes are spreading in France as a result of the adoption of the Government’s [?]usterity budget, which was adopted, after an all night sitting of the National Assembly by 302 votes to 241, with 59 abstentions…
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The auxiliary schooner Huia, which was for a time feared to have been lost during the recent stormy weather, tied up at South Wharf today,…
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Homeward bound office workers had narrow escapes from injuries when flying wood and concrete paving blocks were blown over the road in an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dramatic End to Salvage Venture Steamer Gippsland Founders Off New Guinea BRISBANE
Dramatic SOS from the old wooden vessel Ginnsland this morning indicated that the ship was in difficulties, off the coast of New Guinea, and later a message Stated the crew had abandoned shin. The 13 member of the crew were was expected to founder at any…
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It was reported that the second [?] from the steamer Gippsland, which was wrecked off the New Guinea coast had been beached…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →3 Police Wreck Cinema Fuel To Gun Battle With Gendarmerie SHANGHAI, Tuesday
[?] hundred policemen today [?] cinema which was the yesterday of an argument [?] a policeman and a gendarme…
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A further raid on the steamer River Clarence today resulted in discovery of another 400 strings of pearls, also fishing lines and cigarettes…
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The Federal Cabinet’s decision to nationalise banking would destroy the Government, Dr Frank Louat, leading Sydney barrister and one of Australia’s…
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Mr Horner (secretary of the Nations) Union of Mine Workers), speaking at a Press conference today declared : “If there is another coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →30 Killed After Double Explosion On Steamer PITTSBURGH
Between 20 and 30 persons were killed when the five-decked excursion steamer, Island Queen, burned and sank at the quayside in the Monongahela river today, two hours after she had been…
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[?] roll in the explosion and [?] that destroyed the excursion [?] Learner Queen yesterday [?] Nine bodies have been recovered…
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LONDON, Wed.—Four-engined Lincoln bomber, crashed at Matuby, in Norfolk, during a night training flight, and the bodies of six RAF men have…
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Thurs. —The wreckage of a National Guard C. 47 transport aircraft, reported missing earlier today, has…
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LONDON. Mon—An attack with explosives on the Bristol headquarters of the Communist Party early today wricked the front window…
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WASHINGTON, Tues.—American air force headquarters announced tonight that search planes from the Caribbean command had sighted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sabotage in America Electric Light Plant Wrecked
NEW YORK, Thurs.: A large crowd of labor union sympathisers surrounded (he North Electric Company’s plant at Balion…
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