Former “Wreck” in Redex Trial
SYDNEY, Wed. : There have been no withdrawals from the 9600 miles Redex trial in the past two days…
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Steamer Founders on Reef
LORD HOWE ISLAND, Tues.: The s.s Jaques Del Mar foundered at daylight this morning on a reef near the North Passage of…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The Director of Flying Safety. Wing Commander C. H. D. Brown, and other RAAF experts today…
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This utility was almost totally wrecked when it crashed into the back, of a stationary truck on the Jindera…
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NICOSIA (Cyprus), Mon.: Two British airmen, Flt Sgt. R. Williams and Cpl. R. Fagan, who have completed their service in…
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SYDNEY Tues.: The body of an attractive 40-year-old woman was washed ashore at Cronulla beach today…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Detectives believe a deliberate attempt was made to wreck the South Coast daylight express, which was derailed at Bulli this afternoon…
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LONDON, Tues.: A small British collier and a French trawler fought a tug-of-war for the blazing steamer Mildred yesterday…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: The wreckage of a RAAF Wirraway missing since July 21, 1953, was found by a working party of the…
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MELBOURNE. Wed.: Disobeying a board of reference direction to return to work, a gang of waterside workers walked off the…
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When the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was formed with fourteen member nations…
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THE HAGUE, Tues.: Fire which raged aboard the Norwrgian steamer Folga after she had struck a mine in the North Sea…
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LONDON. Tues.: A British yachtsman, Edward Allcard, 37. sailed into Plymouth yesterday in his 10-ton ketch. Sea Wanderer,…
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CANBERRA. Tues.: Senator Marriott (Lib., Tas.) tonight urged the Government to plan a suitable replacement for the Bass…
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LISMORE, Thurs.: A R.A.A.F. pilot stepped uninjured from his wrecked Mustang fighter after he had made a spectacular forced landing at Evans Head aerodrome today…
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E. J. Watson (left) and P. Schulz, Burrumbuttock bowlers, who went through North Albury batsmen in the B grade match at Alexandra Park on Saturday. Watson took 5/11 and Schulz notched 5/15…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Twenty - five men yesterday dragged the wreckage of an Auster aircraft 200 feet up a near precipitous,…
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LONDON, Wed. : Sixteen survivors of the 7273-ton P&O cargo ship Tresillian, which foundered 44 miles off Cork yesterday, were,…
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ECHUCA, Fri.: A trail of wreckage was left through the Goulburn Valley, between Echuca and Kyabram on Thursday night, when…
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DARWIN, Wed.: Six natives were injured and many natives were left homeless when a heavy stormburst struck Hookerâs Creek…
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