Soldier's Body Washed Ashore from Plane
LAUNCESTON, Sunday.—The body of another victim of the mail plane crash off Flinders Island on Friday was washed ashore yesterday…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
99 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
Submarines Raid Sydney; Sink Only Old Ferry Steamer Three Believed Destroyed; Swift Counter Measures
Submarines which raided Sydney on Sunday night sand only an old ferry steamer. Three Japanese midget submarine are believed to have been destroyed…
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Naval officers address survivors of the Australian cargo vessel on their arrival at a New South Wales port after their long ordeal in lifeboat…
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Eight of the 12 missing from the ship's company of the vessel which was attacked and sunk by a submarine on Wednesday night are Newcastle men. Included is Captain L. Haddelsey…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—One of the four Japanese submarines sunk in Sydney Harbour was lifted out of the water late to-day and placed on dry ground to be examined by naval experts…
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The midget Japanese submarines raised from Sydney Harbour floor after their futile attack were inspected on Saturday by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin), the Minister for Supply and Development (Mr. Beasley)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Fascist Office Wrecked by Bomb
LONDON. June 25.—According to Berlin Radio, the office of Doriot's Fascist Party at Nantes was wrecked by a time-bomb yesterday…
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MELBOURNE. — When the wooden framework of a huge building, being erected for American defence forces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Laughed As They Gunned Lifeboat Bogota (Columbia)
(AAP): Submarine officers stood on the conning tower and laughed while the U-boat machine-gunned a lifeboat carrying sailors…
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PERTHI, Sunday.—Three bodies washed ashore at Cottesloo yesterday, were inter identified as these of members of the crew of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Artillery Wrecks "Tank" Target in Practice Shoot
(By Max Newman): High explosive shells from field artillery wrought havoc among moving targets on a northern section of the NSW coastline yesterday. Time and again the targets were hit, substantiating…
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SYDNEY: A chaise of having murdered Alexander Stewart was laid against James Patrick Kelly 20 at Balmain Court…
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WASHINGTON, July 23.—The Navy Department has announced that three more Allied vessels—Norwegian. United States, and British—…
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State branch of the Returned Soldiers' League will be asked by the Wickham-Carrington subbranch to ask the Government…
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LONDON, Tuesday. (OSR).—A fast Dutch ship which has reached England from Australia passed through miles of wreckage in the…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP)—The broadcasting station Radio Continued at Montevideo (Uruguay), owned by the Racine…
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WASHINGTON, August 6.—Forty-seven survivors of a United States merchantman, the sinking of which previously was announced, have…
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LONDON, Monday. (AAP)—Machine-guns are mounted in Bombay to guard the city's danger points as even fiercer waves of rioting broke out yesterday. More than 20 persons are reported killed and 200 wounded after two days' shooting, stone throwing, fire-lighting and wrecking of transport in this and other cities…
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Vandals have damaged a shed in Rowland's Park, Glebe, to such an extent that the Works Committee of…
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LONDON, Thursday: A secret Belgian newspaper reports that 20 armed Belgians wrecked a coal mine near Charleroi…
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