At Spitzbergen Troops Wreck Mines and Oil Wells
LONDON. Tuesday. (A.A.P.)—The Canadian landing force wrecked the Spitsbergen coal mines, oil wells, fishcuring factories and anything helpful…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1941
48 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 3
Escape From Dakar Allied Sailors Seize Steamer
CAPETOWN. Thursday (A.A.P.).—After 14 months' internment at Dakar (French West Africa) a handful of Allied mariners set out from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plane Crash in Victoria Pilot Swims Ashore: One Believed Killed
MELBOURNE, Monday.—A two-seater aircraft crashed into the sea near Wilson's Promontory during exercises to-day. Sergeant John Stuart…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Steamer Days on Murrumbidgee River Memories of Early Narandera
Much water has flowed over the spillways since the last of the fussy old steamboats chugged and churned its way up and down the Murrumbidgee past…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.s. Consulate Wrecked Outrage in Indo-china
WASHINGTON, Monday.— The State Department announced to-day that the United States consulate in Saigon (Indo-China) had been virtually…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steel Tower Crashed At Temora Flour Mill Wrecks Huge Wheat Shed
At about 9.45 p.m. Tuesday just when a severe gale hit Temora the 80ft high steel tower at Pardey and Co’s flour mill,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Steamer Torpedoed
LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)—It was reported to-day that the British steamer Ashly (4868 tons) was torpedoed and sank near the Azores. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage at Benghazi Wounded Soldiers Welcome British Troops
LONDON, Monday.—The American Associated Press correspondent at Benghazi, as evidence of the work of the R.A.F. in the last month, said that…
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