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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
78 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 4
LONDON, Wednesday.—The latest reports of the Flying Fortress raid on Castel Benito aerodrome near Tripoli, the most important in Tripolitania, show it to hove been the most destructive since Rommel retreated from El…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LIMA (Peru). Monday.—The wreekage of a missing airliner, carrying 15 passengers has been sighted from the air. 350 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some of 100 wrecked German planes strewn over El Daba airfield. This forward base was captured by the British early In the Libyan offensive. Before troops marched In, RAF bombers had caught these planes on the pound. It Is estimated that Middle East campaigns have cost the Axis air forces 600 planes—4000 In combat, 2000 on the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Sunday.—A U.S. Navy transport plane, which has been missing for 10 days on a flight from Pearl Harbor to San…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.—The Navy transport plane which was missing for 10 days on a flight from Pearl Harbour to San Francisco, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dobo, Japanese supply base in the Am Islands, has been wrecked by combined Dutch and Australian air units in the most destructive raid they have ever carried out. Third night raid in the last five days has been made on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Three persons had a lucky escape from injury this afternoon when a rowing boat, from which they were fishing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The ban in Newcastle hotels upon the serving of beer in "schooners" between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. came in for strong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Tuesday.—A picture of horror has been brought back from the North Atlantic zone where 850 men were lost in two American ships torpedoed early this month…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hundreds of workers in Newcastle to-day will do without their customary glass of beer at the end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Though action has been taken by the breweries against three publicans at Wallsend. one at Newcastle and one at Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Wallsend hotelkeepers have lost rebates allowed by the breweries, and till further notice will pay full prices on or ahead of delivery for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The absence of a reply from the Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) on the combined unions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If the Federal Government had deliberately set out to confuse the public mind on the sale of "'schooners" it could not have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Covered with barnacles and showing other signs of having been in the water for a long time, a 10ft. square…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) will examine Newcastle's beer quota to see if supplies are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WYONG, Friday.—Under a section of the Crimes Act, which provides for penal servitude for 14 years, Isaac Harvey, 52, was charged at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday. — Motor-driven dinghies will be dropped to airmen forced down on the sea, if experiments are successful…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. H. Sutherland, Hamilton, expects to resume salvage operations on the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co's steamer Gwydir in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LISBON, April 12.—Eighty-eight British survivors and 18 foreigners have been landed here from the Roxburg Castle, California Star and…
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