Lidcombe Gale Features
PRESENCE of Lennie Rogers in a match race at Lidcombe Oval to-morrow afternoon should be…
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2 Dead in Gale Tree Crashed On Car WOLLONGONG
Two men are dead, and a boy badly hurt as a result of a westerly gale which swept through Wollongong and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Deaths From Gale At Wollongong WOLLONGONG
A terrific westerly gale which swept through Wollongong last night caused the death of two men and serious injuries to a youth…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Furious battle still raging in France 700,000 Germans Storm Allies R.A.F. bombs pound enemy positions
PARIS, Saturday. -- Fifty German divisions (700,000 men) have widened to a bulge the wedge driven in the Maginot Line extension, north-western France…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone Holds Up Tasman Air Service
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday. --The flying-boat Awarua will not leave Auckland for Sydney tomorrow, because of bad weather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lashed by Gale: Two Dead Wollongong
In one of the worst gales the South Coast has experienced, a man was killed at the week-end. and his son injured; another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tote Building Wrecked Gale Damage At Kembla Grange
Friday's gale proved costly to the Kembla Grange Racing Club. The totalisator building was wrecked, and part of the stand and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Guest House Burnt Down. Visitors Escape in Gale. KATOOMBA
Fire, fanned by a gale, destroyed the post-office and guest house conducted by the Misses Scrivener at Mount Irvine in less than half an hour early…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →South Coast Storm. Man Killed; Boy Injured. Homes Damaged
A man was killed, a boy was injured, houses were unroofed, and other extensive damage was done in a 70-mile-an-hour egle which swept…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boy Killed by Bus. Pulling Billy Cart in Heavy Rain. Companion Escapes
Harvey Sutton, 15, of James Street, North Sydney, was killed instantly last night when ho was run over by a double-decker bus at the intersection of Miller and Raleigh Streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"I Spent a Day in a Concentration Camp— in HOLLYWOOD": "Mortal Storm " is Anti-Nazi Film From Lon Jones Hollywood, April 16
I SPENT a day in a concentration camp in Hollywood recently and saw re-enacted in grim and terrible detail the brutalities that are an every-day happening in Nazi Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Is Over No Job For Theodore CANBERRA
The Commonwealth Government crisis caused by the proposed appointment of Mr. E. G. Theodore as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Flanders Help Allied Evacuation More and More Men of B.E.F. RETURN Huge German Attempt To Crush Rearguard LONDON
Men of the heroic B.E.F., evacuated from the hell of Flanders, have been arriving continuously for 48 hours. Streams of long troop-trains have been carrying them to homes and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →History's Greatest Battle to Save B.E.F. Heroic Rearguard Action Desperate Bid To Keep Open Vital Corridor To Dunkirk Yser Flood Defence London, Thursday. "The Daily News" Cable Service
BRITISH and French troops are fighting a terrific rearguard action -- described as the greatest in military history -- and are striving to hold open a corridor through which the evacuating forces must pass to reach Dunkirk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →STREAK... ... Storm Breaking
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazi Menace in Latin America U.S. Sends Cruiser and Planes South As Uneasiness Mounts Gestapo and Storm Troops Work Amazing Plans New York
Coincident with sensational disclosures of Nazi Fifth Column activities in the Latin American Republics, the United States cruiser Quincy, carrying two planes, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Navy Sees It Through Allied Rearguard Faces Storm Of Shells And Bombs English South Coast
In face of intense shellfire, and ceaseless dive- bombing and machine-gunning from the air, the evacuation of the remaining units of the B.E.F. and French forces from Dunkirk is going on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Buyers Nervous. Depressed Rates. Imports Flood. by the Financial Editor
Nervousness among buyers was again apparent in the investment market yesterday. Holders, in order to attract buyers,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rushed 400 Miles For a Doctor Ambulance was an Old Car, and Swamps and Floods Lay Between a Sick Bed and Medical Aid
HEARTRENDING groans greeted Edward Sawdy, a buffalo-hunter, as he brought his lorry to a halt outside his…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Few Defenders Left in Dunkirk. Germans Three Miles Away. Small Rearguaed Makes Grim Stand. Flooding Still Holds Up Attackers. From Our Own Correspondent and A.A.P. LONDON, June 4
The epic evacuation of Dunkirk by the B.E.F. has been practically completed. Comparatively few men are left ashore. The Germans are only three miles from Dunkirk, but the defensive flooding is still holding them up. They are shelling and…
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