Punters Wreck Racecourse
SANTIAGO, Sun.: Angry racegoers partly wrecked the local track yesterday when loudspeakers announced no…
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Flat wrecked in search for gold
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Police believe intruders, who today wrecked a Bondi flat, were searching for hidden gold…
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CANBERRA, Tues.: The Postmaster General, Mr. Anthony, said in the House of Representatives today that a 24-hour-a-day…
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CANBERRA, Tues.: Australian coastal shipping was being wrecked by the effects of the overtime ban imposed in…
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RIMOUSKI (Quebec), Thurs: The bodies of two crew members of the 600-ton river ship, B and F, missing since May 13 in the lower…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Explosions wreck big U.S. Korean ammunition dump
PUSAN, Mon.: The biggest limited States ammunition dump in Korea was shattered by 14 explosions today. The explosions occurred…
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HOBART, Thurs.: The interstate freighter, Adelong, 3577 tons, ran ashore six miles from Port Cygnet in the Huon River…
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EDMONTON, Sun.: A rescue team has parachuted to the scene of a wrecked US B-17 bomber in the Yukon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer’s mystery sinking in Yarrawonga weir
The paddle steamer Australian, one of the oldest vessels operating on the Murray River, which mysteriously…
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KATOOMBA, Mon.: Police are mystified by the discovery today of 2 wrecked semi-trailer, lying among trees and rocks, 200 feet…
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MELBOURNE. Sun.: Fire swept through the second-class lounge of the Bass Strait steamer Taroona yesterday, causing more than £500…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Intruders broke into the home of Robert Kevin Vernon in Buckhurst st., South Melbourne, last night and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Yackandandah Council’s Ultimatum to Wood Carters Must stop “wrecking” of roads or “get out”
Unless Bonegilla migrant- camp wood contractors stop “wrecking” roads they will fee banned from every lane, road or bush track in the Yackandandah Shire…
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SEOUL, Tues.: Fourteen US B29 Super fortress bombers avoiding the path of a typhoon, last night attacked a big…
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CANBERRA, Wed.: Claiming that the s.s. Taroona was now ready to go on the scrap heap, Mr Luck (Lib., Tas.) appealed to the…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Labor Party was out to wreck the Government, even if it Wrecked Australia in the process, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disabled ketch makes port
BRISBANE, .Mon.: Disabled ketch Jason was towed to Gladstone by rescue launch today. With Dr. C. Hammond, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some crewmen of Burnt schooner sa[?]e
BONAVISTA (Newfoundland), Wed.: Some members of the crew of the schooner James Jones, which burned and sank yesterday…
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SANTIAGO (Chile), Fri.: A train smashed into a crowded bus here last night, and 15 persons died in the blazing…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →U.s. Plans Wreck Red Oil Refinery a Few Miles From Soviet
TOKIO, Mon.: The largest United States all-Navy air raid of the Korean war today wiped out a vital North Korean oil refinery at Hoeam-Dong, only 12 miles from the border of the Soviet Union. The refinery was the closet target to Soviet Siberia that United…
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