Ordeal of Castaways Lost Ashore After Storms And Food Shortage At Sea BROOME
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 2
In Broome Government Hospital Mr. A. N. Johnson was able today to tell a graphic story of the ordeal of himself and wife. They were rescued on Friday in wild country after they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cripps Outed As Brain Snob Storm of Cheers and Boos for Greeting London, Tuesday. Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 3
SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS' expulsion was due to Labor Party intellectuals attempting to belittle the importance of the trade unions. This view was expressed to the Daily News…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ketch Is Back Struck Gale In Tasman
The Sun · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 3
With a broken chronometer, the main water tank leaking and supplies short, and slight deck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Siegfried Line Flooded Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 3
PARIS, Wed.--Floods on the Rhine to-day damaged 30 miles of Germany's Siegfried line. Through binoculars French soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Snow, Rain, Floods Forecast Wintry Outlook for State As Winter Comes in
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 1
Winter begins officially today, with an official forecast of rain, snow, and floods. Showers are expected today in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Havoc Follows Deluge On Island
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday.--Great damage was done by a deluge on Pitcairn Island two hours before daylight on May 15…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hispaniola Back Again. Water Tank Leak. Gales and Head Winds
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 12
The O'Brien family returned to Palm Beach yesterday in the ketch Hispaniola after their second unsuccessful attempt to sail to Lord Howe Island…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hispaniola Back Again Within 90 Miles Of Lord Howe Gales Drive Hispaniola Back: Owner Will Try Again
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 7
On its second attempt in two months to reach Lord Howe Island, the ketch Hispaniola was forced back to Palm Beach yesterday. The ketch left Palm Beach on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Schnabel Storms Sydney
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 19
PACKING the Town Hall for the first local recital by Artur Schnabel, Sydneysiders showed themselves well aware of his…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Storm River Under Hot Fire HONGKONG
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 3
THE Japanese have launched a great offensive along the Han River, which flows into the Yangtse at Hankow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms Coming on Gold London, Friday. Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 3
RECENT transfer of £6,000,000 of Czech gold from the Bank of England to Germany will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fine Week-end Forecast. Sunshine Yesterday. Storm Sweeps South
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 17
Fine weather in Sydney, with the possibility of a passing shower, is forecast for the week-end by the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →14 Dead, Wheat Lost in Floods
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 1
ROME, Friday.--Fourteen people have been killed, 50 injured, and hundreds rendered homeless by floods after the torrential hall and rainstorms that are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in Yugoslavia Belgrade
The Sun · Sunday 4 June 1939 · page 2
Floods have made 20,000 homeless. Road and rail transport throughout northern Yugoslavia has been disorganised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods and Crocodiles
The Sun · Sunday 4 June 1939 · page 9
HUSHED in the heat of the noonday tropic glare all the wild geese lay motionless, in their thousands,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bungling Alleged in Rescue Attempt Submarine Tragedy Raises Storm Of Indignation Claim That Red Tape Hindered Work London
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 June 1939 · page 1
Suggestions that the efforts to rescue those on board the submarine Thetis were bungled, are made by the Press. One of the rescuers declares that only for red tape all would have been saved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Over Negress Singer Washington, Mon. Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 3
A NUMBER of New York society leaders have strongly declined invitations to meet the King…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Torpedo Tube Flooded; Thetis Tragedy LONDON, Monday. Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 1
A REQUEST that the disabled submarine Thetis be not raised from the seabed was made to-day by a number of relatives of the dead crew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Submarine Disaster Explained. Water Through Torpedo Tube. Forward Compartments Flooded. Three Men Killed in Escape Hatch. LONDON, June 5. (A.A.P.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 11
Mr. R. S. Johnson, managing director of Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., builders of the British submarine Thetis, to-day gave the first authentic description of the disaster that overtook the vessel last week…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Cyclone" Belies His Name
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 June 1939 · page 28
THE best natured dog in the pictures had to be obtained for one of the scenes in R.K.O.[?]Radio's "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle," because Edna May Oliver,…
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