Schooner Sales Limited New Rule for Hotels
CANBERRA, Monday.—From to-morrow hotelkeepers in New South Wales will be authorised to refuse to supply beer in 16oz. schooners…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
99 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 5
Tendered £580 for Wreck Removal
A tender price of £580 for the removal of the wreck from Nobby's Reach has been submitted to Greater Newcastle Council by Mr. A…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A Norwegian steamer was torpedoed off Inyak Island at the entrance to Lourenco Marques (Portuguese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Jap. Bombers in Assam Jungle
DELHI, Tuesday.—Wrecked fuselages of 13 Japanese planes have been found in the jungle. These were destroyed in raids on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Tough Job" Removal of Wreck at Nobbys
"I know it is a tough job, but I am confident I can remove the Maianbar wreck on Nobbys Beach," said Mr. A. Allen at a meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nobbys Wreck Removal Move to Reject Tender Fails
A recommendation from the Finance Committee to Greater Newcastle Council that the tender of Mr. A. Allen, of West Wallsend, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Total Loss Off Flinders Island
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Striking a roof off the southern coast of Flinders Island recently, a well-known South Australian steamer has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Warships Scuttled by French at Toulon Wrecked Oil Arsenal And Munition Dumps
LONDON, Saturday: Hitler failed to seize the French fleet (believed to number over 60 ships) in a swoop on Toulon at 4 a.m. yesterday. The French Navy died with bitter heroism. Every warship was blown up and scuttled, Vichy admits, and the naval…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Planes Show Luftwaffe Left Rommel in Lurch
It is now clear that Rommel's vaunted North African air force precipitately headed his army's retreat through! Cyrenaica. As advance parties of RAF ground units reach airfields…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Timor Air Attack 21 Jap Planes Wrecked
Twenty one Japanese aircraft—18 of them bombers—were either wrecked or badly damaged in one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aussie First Ashore at Guadalcanal
By WINSTON TURNER, "The Sun's" War Correspondent with the U.S. Forces in the South Pacific. The important part played by some Australians as scouts and guides in the original landing on Guadalcanal…
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SYDNEY: In thick weather the Union Company's cargo steamer Kaiwarrz (3031 tonse) has gone ashore near Lyttleton (New…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—News reached Sydney to-day that the Union Company's cargo steamer Kaiwarra (3051 tons) had gone ashore in thick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Recovering After Attack On Lifeboat
PERTH, Thursday. — Thirty-one pints of blood, some from three direct blood transfusions, have been pumped into Richard Henry, R.A.N., who is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TARZAN— Lifeboat or Deathtrap
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →Half of German Panzers Wrecked in Tunisian Clash
LONDON, Sunday: Another battle is expected at any moment in Tunisia for the vital communications centre of Medjez el Bab (40 miles south-west of Tunis, the capital). British and French guns are estimated to have smashed…
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LONDON, Monday. — Fifteen saboteurs recently entered the Augrey - Marihaye metallurgies factory near Liege (Belgium) and…
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WASHINGTON: Wreckage of the U.S. aircraft-carrier Lexington, which blew up on its way home from the Coral Sea battle,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Bombers Wreck Docks At Rangoon
NEW DELHI, Wednesday.—Rangoon, chief poof Burma, was heavily raided by daylight yesterday by American bombers…
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