Moth Plane Wrecked Perth
Pilot R. Charman sustained a twisted knee and Sergt.-Major Compton slight injuries when a Moth plane crashed at Rottnest Island to-day and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
131 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 7
Cas Explosion 73 Injured in London Many Buildings Wrecked LONDON
Seventy-three people were injured, amid scenes which resembled a battle-field, following a violent explosion to-day in a building south of St. Paul's…
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DEBRIS AND WRECKAGE left by the explosion after a fire on the liner Narkunda at Colombo on July 16. Four of the crew were killed and 27 were injured. (Daily Telegraph Block)…
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The British cargo vessel Beaver Hill (10,041 tons), which struck an iceberg in dense fog this morning 100 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, is…
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DEBRIS AND WRECKAGE left by the explosion after a fire on the liner Narkunda at Colombo on July 16. Four of the crew were killed and 27 were injured…
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More than 100,000 people participated in Bratislava demonstrations. They wrecked two synagogues. The crowd also demonstrated without incident…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thetis Wreckage Salvage to Be Resumed London
Resumption of the efforts to salvage the sunken submarine Thetis will begin shortly. The Liverpool and Glasgow Salvage Association to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coastal Steamer Ashore Sydney
The coastal steamer, Tyalgum, went ashore near Tweed River entrance this morning, and its position is understood to be serious…
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The liner Moreton Bay returned to Sydney this morning from Melbourne, an instructions from the Admiralty. Many of her eighty passengers who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vessels Disappear Poles on German Steamer Sydney
Two German steamers, the Lahn and the Stassfurt, and the Italian liner, Romolo. which vanished from the east coast of Australia during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australia's First Shot Coastal Steamer Held Up Melbourne
Seamen on board a small coastal steamer making its way through The Rip at the heads to-day received a shock when the fort fired a shell close…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gar Wrecked, Two Injured In Collision With Palm Bus Driver and Oil Depot Executive In Early-Morning Smash Accelerator May Have Jammed, Says Owner
IT is probable that a jammed accelerator was the cause of a serious accident on the corner of Palm Avenue East, near the foot of Kurrajong Avenue in the early hours of Saturday morning, when two widely known local men, Mr. Owen Duffy, bus driver for Mr. J. J…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fascist Leader's Offices Wrecked London
Two hundred demonstrators wrecked Sir Oswald Mosley's new fascist headquarters in Tottenham…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Submarines in Pacific? Steamer Reported Torpedoed New York
The Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press declares that a Japanese press dispatch reports the torpedoing between Manilla…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Goodwood Attacked London
The Bureau of Information announces that the London steamer, Goodwood, was attacked, but 21 members of the crew were picked up by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sinking Ships Danish Steamer Lost German Press Again Accuses Mr. Winston Churchill Flushing (Holland)
It is revealed that the Danish steamer Randsa was mined near Terschelling on Wednesday Seventeen passengers, including two Americans,…
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SABOTAGE WAS BLAMED FOR THIS. Wreck of 17-car stream-lined U.S. flier, City of San Francisco, plunged by derailment into the Humboldt River (Nevada) on August 14. Twenty were killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brilliant Rescue Crew of Torpedoed Steamer Picked Up by Flying-boats London
It is officially stated that two R.A.F. flying-boats were responsible for a magnificent feat in rescuing the entire crew of 34 of the tramp…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swedish Steamer Sunk Oslo
The Swedish steamer, Gertrud Bratt, on her way to england with wood pulp, was topedoed and sunk by a German submarine. The members of the crew were rescued…
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