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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904

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Contraband of War. a French Steamer Stopped. London, Doc. 2

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

The Porte has stopped the French steamer Merthyic from going through the Dardanelles. It was conveying 21 cases of explosives to Baltoum, the…

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Wrecking a Circus Acrobats Roughly Handled

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 5

The circus owner's lot, like that of the policeman in the comic opera, is not always a happy one. He or she has ups and downs, and so has the circus,…

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A Steamer Sunk

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 2

The steamer Amur has been sunk in the harbor at Port Arthur by the Japanese fire from 203-Metro Hill. She was the only vessel remaining of the…

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Steamer Sunk

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 December 1904 · page 2

The steamer Amur has been sunk in the harbour at Port Arthur by the Japanese fire from 203-Metre Hill. She was the only vessel remaining of…

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Cable News. a River Disaster. Another Steamer Burnt. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 December 1904 · page 2

The Glen Island, a steamer of the same type as the General Slocum, has been burnt to the water's edge at Long Island Sound, New York harbour…

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A Sensational Incident. Affray on a Ferry Steamer. (By Telegraph.) SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1904 · page 2

A sensational incident occurred last night on board the Balmain ferry steamer Lady Rawson. It appears that a man named Michael John Lee…

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Fire on the Steamer Sophocles. Loss Estimated at £20,000. PERTH

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1904 · page 4

The Aberdeen liner, Sophocles, which left Albany for London on Thursday last, put into Fremantle on Saturday with a fire in the engine store-room of…

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Japanese Losses. [?]Spected Loss of a Steamer

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 2

A list has been published of 33 Japanese officers who have been killed and 36 wounded. Presumably the list refers to officers beseiging Port Arthur…

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