Ship Sank After Collision
SHANGHAI, Monday: About 100 of the 1000 passengers and crew aboard the wooden ship Chikiang. which sank yesterday after collision…
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Accidents, 1947
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Seaman Found Injured
SYDNEY, Sunday.—William Anthony Betts, 20, of Chilton-avenue, South Ealing, London, was found critically injured in Jones Bay-road…
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A motor cyclist and his pillion rider, a girl, were admitted to Cessnock Hospital this morning suffering extensive injuries and shock after a…
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Four people were injured on Saturday afternoon when a panel-von overturned on West Wallsend-road. West Wallsend. Two children, one four…
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—Between 400 and 500 passengers are reported to have been drowned when the wooden Chinese ship, Chikiang,…
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When he dropped a brick on his foot while playing at his home yesterday. Peter Stedman, 4, King-street, Paterson, received a lacerated wound and…
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Esmond Madison, 43, of King-street, Birmingham Gardens, suffered cuts to the right leg, and abrasions and bruises to the right thigh, when…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Six people were injured, four seriously, in Sydney and suburban accidents, mostly at night…
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John Rowan, 34, truck driver, of Telarah-road, West Maitland, was struck by an iron bar at the Hunter District Water Board's…
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LONDON, Jan. 21. A.A.P.—An Admiralty Court found the British cruiser Curacao responsible for the collision with the Queen Mary off…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man was killed in a road collision to-night, another was fatally crushed by a service lift, and a third drowned at a Mountain swimming pool. Marmaduke Masterson, 48, of…
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SYDNEY. Wednesday.—A motorcyclist, Bert Merton, of West Ryde, and his pillion passenger, J Scott, of Ryde, were admitted to hospital…
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George Pitts, 62, of Newcastle-street, Mayfield, died in Newcastle Hospital last night from injuries he received in an accident at the Steel…
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George Samuel Pitts, 62, of 22 Newcastle Street, Mayfield, a laborer on the open hearth at the B.H.P. Steel Works, has died in Newcastle…
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James Bayliss, 67, of Nelson-street, Wallsend, received cuts to the back of the head and bruises to the right hip when his motor-cycle and a truck…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.—The body of Herbert Edwin Willis, 20, married, of Singleton, who was drowned in the Clarence River at South…
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David Harrower, 38, of Northcote St., Aberdare, a miner at Aberdare Colliery, suffered injuries to his back when he was struck by a fall of coal…
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Three people were injured in a collision between two cars at the corner of Auckland and King Streets, Newcastle, yesterday afternoon…
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WOLLONGONG.—A holiday-maker was drowned this morning when washed off the rocks at Windang Island, about three miles south of…
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SYDNEY.—Police are mystified by the appearance of a motor cyclist—seriously injured—at Canterbury District Hospital early…
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