Seamen Hurt in Strait Storm Melbourne
During one of the roughest Bass Strait crossings for many years. engineers and stokers of the passenger ship Nairana were badly bruised, and…
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Cattle, Sheep Die As Gale Whips Ship MELBOURNE
More than 90 yearling cattle and 30 sheep were lost in a storm which struck the Holyman freighter Lutana on a trip from Tasmania. One wave swept 30 cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Nazis Going to Danzig." 40,000 Storm Troopers. "Herald" Exclusive Service. Warsaw, June 9
Forty thousand Storm Troopers from East Prussia are reported to be going to Danzig for a sports festival next week, which the German Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Thetis Secret Out; Fire Hastened End Caused When Water Flooded Electrical Equipment London
FIRE broke out on the sunken submarine Thetis just before the last survivors escaped. This was revealed today by the Controller of the Admiralty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm In The Bush
A VAST silence reigned over the bush. A sultry heat was brooding. The little bush creatures all scurried away to their cosy little…
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Fourteen months alone on Willis Island, a tiny sand-spit three hundred miles east of Townsville on the edge of the Coral Sea, has been the lot of Messrs. E. M. Gollan and P. C. Priestley, of Amalgamated Wireless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Braved the Cold Holiday Crowd Out Early Sunshine In City--Gale In Tasman
Coldest weather for 10 months did not deter Sydney holidaymakers to-day. Helped by a light westerly breeze, the thermometer sank this morning to 42.2…
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The Monterey arrived in Sydney yesterday several hours late. The ship struck heavy weather in the Tasman. Picture shows the seas smashing over the decks in mid-ocean…
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BRISBANE, Monday. -- The steamer Macdhui is bringing south for repairs a Seagull amphibian, which was badly damaged in Papua…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plays Havoc Fierce Electric Storm
AUCKLAND, Monday.--Lightning played havoc with radio sets during a fierce electric storm at Hamilton today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket and Tennis Balls. Deluge from School Roof. LITHGOW
When — working on the roof of the [?] gow Public Boys" School removed the guttering, more than 100 tennis and cricket balls fell to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Zealand Storms. Damage by Lightning. Auckland
Bitterly cold weather and frequent thunderstorms continue. A tramcar was struck by lightning, but as the charge was immediately earthed through the rails, no damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Storm Over Lord's Talk London, Monday. Our Own Cable Service
LORD BAYFORD'S speech, advocating a Chamberlain dictatorship, has aroused a storm in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Danzig Rally Seen As "Rehearsal" How Storm-Troopers Came LONDON
Foreign observers believe that the week-end Nazi "sports rally" (which 6000 German Storm-Troopers attended) was a rehearsal for an invasion of Danzig, says the Danzig correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Homes at Woronora. "Being Flooded Out."
"People have to wade through water a foot deep to get to their homes, while their back yards are being flooded," said Councillor Lawrence at…
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BRISBANE. Wednesday .--Alexander Corran. who became insolvent after the Brisbane Hood in 1893, was unconditionally discharged from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Mails Delayed. Heavy Rain in Central Australia. ADELAIDE
Both the north-bound and south-bound planes flying between Adelaide and Darwin have been held up at Alice Springs because of abnormal weather. The landing fields in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Boycott on N.z. Raises Storm
LONDON, Thurs.--A circular issued by the Federation of British Industries, urging its members not to trade with New Zealand, aroused a storm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Propaganda Flood. Nazi Activity in Europe. Vast Machine at Work
Thanks to the efforts of totalitarian publicists of the order of Signor Gayda and of totalitarian newspapers like the "Volkische Beobachter," people abroad…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aid Wheat Prices Italian Floods, U.S. Drought
WASHINGTON, Thursday.--Reports of an excessively heavy winter wheat crop in America are denied here…
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