C.s. Destroyer Sunk in Collision
WASHINGTON, Saturday: A Navy Department communique states: Early on the morning of November 29 the destroyer Perkins was sunk…
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U.S. Destroyer Sunk In Collision
WASHINGTON, Saturday (AAP). —Early on the morning of November 29 the United States destroyer Perkins was sunk as a result of a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Privates Schwartz and Louser, of the 8th Australian Employment Company, were drowned while…
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BRISBANE, Monday: A surfing tragedy and many rescues from drowning were features of the holidays at South Queensland…
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ROMA, Monday: George Archibald Taylor (42) died at Roma Hospital today from injuries received in a bomb accident during…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Holding her nine-months-old son, whose head had been battered with an axe, Mrs Ferdinand…
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SOUTHPORT, Wednesday:—Myrtle Violet Slingsby (10), daughter of Oswald Slingsby, of Cairns, was found today in a waterhole at…
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Mr and Mrs T. W. Boyd, of Condong, have been notified that their elder son. Pilot-Officer Harold William (Brick) Boyd, lost his life…
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As a result of colliding head on with another surfer at Kirra Beach. Coolangata, Arthur O'Toole (15), of Dalby. sustained a lacerated…
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CASINO, Thursday.—Mrs. Muriel Hiley, of Barker Street, Casino, received severe shock and suffered a bruised shoulder when the…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.— Following a head-on collision between a motor car and a tram on Bow en Bridge at Lutwyche last night, a…
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GRAFTON, Monday. — Arthur Henry Julin. 22, was drowned in the Macleay River near the Kempsey railway bridge late yesterday…
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CASINO. Monday. — Douglas Charles Hancock. R. of Lower Dyraaba Creek, received a probable fracture of the lower jaw when…
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CASINO, Monday.—Rose Ann Toohey, 75, of Woodview Post Office, fell at her home this morning and sustained a probable…
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GRAFTON. Sunday: Reginald Fierpoint (91) was drowned at Stuart's Poinij yesterday while, wading with two other children…
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GRAFTON, Sunday.—The second drowning tragedy within a period of three weeks occurred in the Macleav district yesterday…
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When a pan in which they were frying fish overturned, Jim Nugent (28) and Ronald Woods (24), of Brisbane, sustained scalds from…
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CASINO, Sunday.—Casino Ambulance had "another busy weekend. In addition to several medical calls, the following accidents…
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Numerous calls to accidents and medical cases were attended by the Casino ambulance at the week-end. June Waters suffered a fractured…
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An accident in which four pepole were injured when a truck plunged over an embankment on the Bexhill Road on December 4 had a…
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