Chinese Again Fire on Crippled Ship
NANKING, Fri.--Chinese guns again fired on the British sloop Amethyst late today as she tried to move upstream, the A.A.P…
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Late News Sloop Still Under Fire
SHANGHAI, April 22 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—The damaged British sloop Amethyst was fired on again to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communists Fire on British Plane Yangtse Casualties Now Over 100 From Our Staff Correspondent And A.A.P.
NANKING, April 22.—Chinese Communists on the north bank of the Yangtse opened fire on an R.A.F. first-aid plane when it made a second landing near the stricken British…
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Passengers in a crowded Bondi-bound tram jumped to safety late last night when flames spouted from the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Police have identified the body of one of two men burnt to death in a four-roomed…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Police have identified the body of one of two men burnt to death in a four-roomed…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Police have identified the body of one of two men burnt to death in a four-roomed…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Police have identified the body of one of two men burnt to death in a four-roomed…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Police have identified the body of one of two men burnt to death in a four-roomed…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Two young men were burnt to death when fire destroyed a small cottage on a fruit block…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Police have identified the body of one of two men burnt to death in a four-roomed…
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NANKING, Monday. -- The Chinese Communists have refused to grant a cease-fire along the Yangtse River to free the British sloop Amethyst which…
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Young Lieut. Mark Bentley, British surgeon in the destroyer Consort, carried out major operations on wounded sailors with a razor, including several amputations…
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LONDON, April 25.—The damaged British sloop Amethyst was still bottled up last night on the Yangtse River, 60 miles down-stream…
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Parramatta Fire Brigade quick quelled a minor but spectacu[?] blaze at Lamans, Chemist's, Rawson Road, Auburn, last wee[?]…
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Firemen and a gardener early today saved a valuable car and a Great Dane dog from a blazing…
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A hurricane lamp placed by telephone linesmen near a broken gas main caused an explosion and fire, which threatened two houses in Wattle Street, Punchbowl, late yesterday…
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TWO firemen were injured last night while fighting an outbreak in the boiler room of S.S. Caradale. berthed at No…
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TWO firemen were injured A last night while fighting an outbreak in the boiler room of S.S. Caradale, berthed at No…
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TWO firemen were injured last night while fighting an outbreak in the boiler room of S.S. Caradale, berthed at No…
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