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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

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French Airmen Crash Machine Wrecked TOKIO

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 1

The French airmen, Doret and Micheletti, who art attempting a record flight from Paris to Tokio, crashed on Shikoku Island. Both were…

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Jews Attacked Polish Pogrom Buildings Wrecked and Looted Fascists Lead Mob LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 1

Details of the terrible Polish pogrom at Brest-Litovsk, lasting 15 hours, and during which the entire Jewish population was at the mercy of the mob,…

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British Steamer Hit by an Air Bomb Bilbao

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 2

The Bilbao government has agreed to exchange the captured German airmen, Kienzle, Schulze and Wandel, also another German, Planck,…

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Submarines Appear Loyalist Steamer Torpedoed LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 1

An official communique issued by the Loyalist Government states that submarines of an unknown nationality appeared near Barcelona at 1.30 p.m…

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Submarines Appear [?]Oyalist Steamer Torpedoed London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 1

An official communique issued by the loyalist Government states that submarines of an unknown nationality appeared near Barcelona at 1.30 p.m…

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Where Dick Turpin Once Hid Wreckers Doom Ghost to Wander Forever

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 3

An old house in Hornchurch said to have been the home of Dick Turpin's mother, where the highwayman once found refuge for three weeks, is being…

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Detonators on Steamer Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 1

Twenty-four detonators were found in a box in the coal bunkers of the steamer Wandana. Firemen discovered the box while stoking the furnace and…

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Empty Aeroplane Races Away From Aerodrome Wrecked After Flight of 35 Minutes LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 2

When the engineer swung the propellor preparatory to starting a Klemm-Swallow monoplane at Hythe aerodrome to-day, the throttle…

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Missing Air Liner Wreckage Pound on Mountain Alpine (Utah)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 1

A huge air liner which vanished on December 16, 1936, with seven passengers aboard, was found in a myriad fragments on the snow-clad…

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Domestic Unrest in Europe Purge Intensified in Dismissals and Trials "Trotskyist Wrecking" Attacked Disintegrating Soviet System LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 1

The non-fulfilment of industrial plans in Russia has resulted in numerous dismissals and trials. M. Stalin's great purge, which was…

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Eight Generals to Be Tried Charges of Treason and Wrecking Moscow

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 1

Eight generals of the Red Army including several who had been reported missing, will be charged before the military section of the Supreme Court…

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Huge Cash Sum on British Steamer Allegedly Sent From Spain Without Consent London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 1

The St. Jean de Luz (France correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that the general managers of the banks of Bilbao, Vizcaya, and…

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Wrecked Steamer Passengers and Crew Safe Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 1

It is now revealed that when the inter-island steamer Bucephale ran aground on Efate Island, New Hebrides, on Monday the bottom of the vessel…

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Italian Steamer Bombed by Spanish 'Planes! No Casualties London

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 1

Lloyds have received a cable from Gibraltar reporting that the Italian steamer Madda bound from Port Sudan to Clyde with a cargo of cottonseed, was bombed by two Spanish planes…

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Italian Steamer Damaged by Loyalist 'Planes. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

Lloyds have received a cable message from Gibraltar reporting that the Italian steamer Madda. bound from Port Sudan to the Clyde with a cargo…

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Soviet Purge Crop Wrecking Alleged. New Campaign Op Terror. Moscow

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

The ferocity of M. Stalin's purge is apparently unappeased. The Government announces that the discovery of crop wreckers has only begun, and will…

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Moscow Trials High Officials Sentenced for Agricultural Wrecking London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 1

The Moscow correspondent of "The Times" states that the trial of agricultural wreckers resulted in Grinenko. Atamanchuk and Furman. high…

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Stinson Crash Mysterious Tin in Wreckage BRISBANE

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 1
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At the inquest into the death of the victims of the Stinson crash at Archerfield aerodrome on March 28, Sergeant Kidwell said that he had no…

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Man Found in Harbor Did He Fall From Steamer? Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 July 1937 · page 6

A man who was found swimming to-day beneath the Harbor Bridge is believed, to have fallen unnoticed from a moving steamer. He was rescued by…

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