One-arm V.c. Swam Ashore
LONDON, November 22 (Air Mail): General Carton de Wiart. one-eyed, one-armed, 60-years-old V.C., swam ashore before being captured by the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
99 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
Wrecked Plane Found
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 7.—The Wreckage of a three-engined plane, which crashed on November 4 last year in the swamps of Puerto Suarez (Bolivia), was found by…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Ninety-four lives were lost when a large steamer was torpedoed and sunk 160…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Stating that six soldiers who were charged at the Police Court to-day with having wrecked a cafe at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nobbys Wreck "Buck Passing," Says Ald. Norris
"They are passing the buck to somebody else," said Ald. Norris last night when Greater Newcastle Health Committee was informed by the…
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LONDON, Dec. 12. (Air Mail). — "I am determined that public worship shall go on in Westminster Abbey whatever happens, as…
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LONDON. Sunday (A.A.P.). — The Italian newsagency declares that a British submarine torpedoed the Spanish steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Wrecked Kiosk
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Admitting that they had wrecked a kiosk at Central railway station on January 17, seven A.I.F. men were to-day in…
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PORTO RICO. Wed. (A.A.P.). — The torpedoing of an Allied steamer was reported to-dav by a ship captain at San Juan, West Indies…
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CAPE TOWN, Thursday (A.A.P.). — Saboteurs have struck heavily in an attempt to cripple South Africa's rich gold-mining industry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Long Voyage in Lifeboat
LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).— With 50 men crowded into it, a merchant skipper sailed a lifeboat 500 miles in 13 days to safety…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Ships at Tripoli
Wrecked ships in Tripoli Harbour. This photograph, from the Department of Air, was captured from a German prisoner in Libya…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →May Break in Swell Steamer Gwydir's Position
The Newcastle and hunter River Steamship Company's coastal steamer Gwydir, which was beached near Norah Head after collision with an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Low Wage Wrecks Home
SYDNEY.— Mr. Justice Bonney, in the Divorce Court to-day, attributed the breaking up of a home to the low wage— £2 10s 6d— which…
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Official U.S. Navy pictures of the heavy American losses suffered in the treacherous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) naval base are now to hand. U.S. larget ship Utah (18,000 tons, built in (1909)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Wrecks Two U.s. Ships: 189 Drowned
NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.).— With the loss of 188 lives the U.S. destroyer Truxtum (1193 tons) and the cargo vessel…
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BALTIMORE. Wed. (A.A.P.).— Seventeen of 33 men who escaped from the 2710-ton Norwegian freighter Blink in a lifeboat when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carcases of 23 Whales Washed Ashore
NEW YORK, January 25. (Air Mail).—The community of Ancon on the Peninsula of Santa Elena is mystified and concerned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Japanese Army Swarming Ashore in Java Reported Advance in Central Area: Allies Hit Back
BATAVIA, Monday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.): Dutch forces have launched a counter-offensive against the Japanese who invaded Java at three points on Saturday night, and savage fighting went on all day yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Launch Ashore at Blacksmiths
A man and his wife and another man, who were travelling to Broken Bay last night in a 25ft. launch, which went ashore…
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