Belgian Cross Channel Steamer Mined
LONDON, Wed. : Five of the Crew were killed and eight passengers and five of the crew were injured when the 2950-ton Belgain…
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130 Japanese Perish When Steamer Sinks Tokio
ONE hundred and thirty Japanese died when the coastal steamer, Oaba Maru, sank in the inland sea off Kyushu during a typhoon yesterday. Only survivors were an…
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LOS ANCHLES, Tuesday: After a 0600 miles journey from Melbourne in 74 days, the South Australian ketch, Kurrawa HI,…
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LOS ANGELES, Sun.: Australian ketch Kurrewa III slid down the ways into Wilington Harbor yesterday for the final…
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A FEW hundred “Commos”, thieves, rogues and vagabonds were trying to wreck the country, the Minister for the Army (Mr. Chambers) told a street meeting of miners at Singleton to-day. Mr Chambers said that while…
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HONG KONG, Sun.: About 30 shots were fired at the British river steamer Wusneh about two hours after her departure…
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NEWCASTLE, Tues.: The interstate steamer, Dalby (2349 tons), with 1000 tons of coal aboard for Hobart,…
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AIR FORCE officers left Sale to-night to investigate a report that what appeared be part of an aircraft had been found about 80 miles from sale…
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MEXICO CITY, Wed.: A search plane yesterday spotted the wreckage of the missing Mexican DC3 airliner scattered in the snow…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: More wreckage from the missing RAAF Avro Anson was sighted on the Ninety Mile Beach…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Further pieces of wreckage identified as that of the RAAF Avro Anson which has been missing from…
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PUERTO CABELLO (Venezuela) Tues.: A fire, the" origin of which is not known, yesterday swept the 1350 ton Norwegian…
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THE HAGUE. Tues.: The Swedish steamer, Mira, 1500 tons, has radioed for immediate assistance after striking the wreck of the…
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SALTILLO (Mexico), Wed.: A Mexican DC3 airliner, which had been missing since Monday on a flight from Mexico City to…
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CAPE TOWN, Tues: “Wreckers are at work who will pat us back 50 to 100 years” said the leader of the South African…
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Marcel Cerdan, the famous French middle-weight boxer, was among the 46 people aboard the French Constellation airliner which crashed in the Azores. All were killed. Cerdan, with his manager and trainer, was on…
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BERLIN, Tues.: Soviet-torpedoed and sank the German cargo ship Hansa during naval manoeuvres in the Baltic on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steamer Sinks in Flames During Terrific Gale LONDON
IN one of the year’s worst gales the 3554 ton Spanish streamer Monte Gurugu sank in flames off Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel today after her crew had abandoned her,…
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NEW YORK, Wed. : The American steamer Flying Cloud (6214 tons) was yesterday attacked by a Chinese Nationalist…
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MELBOURNE, Wed: No. 14 light beacon, about half a mile off Breakwater Pier, was completely wrecked when it was…
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