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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
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MANILA, Monday.—The Allied Pacific Fleet is now anchored in Sagami Bay—about 45 miles from Tokio city—and waters around Japan are virtually "alive" with Allied ships. The vast Allied armada, comprising over 380 ships, will move in to Tokio Bay to-morrow morning, after which Marines will immediately go ashore to commenc e the occupation of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The rumble of bulldozers and power graders has succeeded the boom of invading guns at Balikpapan, says our war correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Manila, Tuesday.—The occupation of Japan commenced yesterday morning, when U.S. Army specialists Banded at Atsugi airfield, 18 miles from Tokio, and set about preparing for the landing of major forces on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OKINAWA, Wednesday.—"You don't need an atomic bomb to lay waste a city," was the thought that ran through my mind as I took in the expanse of ruin below from the window of the Liberator sweeping over Tokio at a 1000 feet level…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The detention room at Victoria Barracks was wrecked, furniture and fittings destroyed and two provosts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TOKIO, Wednesday—Between 3C and 40 women and children who disappeared with the British steamer Nanking between Fremantle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—When a 60 feet shark boat was wrecked in the rip at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—A Lloyds announcement says the British steamer Oceana struck a mine off Heligoland and radioed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →POSTWAR reconstruction for the Japanese means, at present, largely a matter of clearing up the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday (AAP).—Four and a half years of toil by the Germans was brought to nothing when 32 tons of German bombs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—The United States steamer Atlas, of 4810 tons, ran into Bougainville reef, 108 miles east of Cairns, on Friday night. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Friday: The Royal Navy collier Atlas, stuck on the Bougainville Reef, off Cairns, is fast becoming a total…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Friday—The Royal Navy collier, Atlas, stuck on the Bougainville reef off Cairns, is fast becoming a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CHUNGKING, Thursday: A Cabinet spokesman stated today that Chinese Communists had destroyed one-tenth of all China's railways, or 875 miles of track. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If thrown into the water keel upwards, this newly invented lifeboat will turn over till it is floating normally. Equipped with automatic wireless, it was invented by a Swedish engineer and presented in Copenhagen recently…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday (AAP). —Naval mine disposal squads working day and night over the Christmas holiday period on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday: After eight days drifting at the mercy of a gale which sometimes reached 100 miles per hour, 19…
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