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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932

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Stifling Amon Wreckage Tennis Player Was Buried 18 Hours Paris

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 8

Young Madame Mathieu, the well-known tennis player, was telephoning her husband when the two blocks of flats collapsed…

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Indian Tornado. Wrecks Gaol Building. Prisoners Escape. Calcutta, May 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 11

Twenty-two persons, including warders, convicts, and political prisorers, were killed and more than 100 injured when the gaol at Mymensingh (East Bengal) collapsed during…

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Wrecked Bill Considered Mutilated by T.b. Treachery

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 5

Mutilated in the Upper House through the treachery of the Coates' Group, the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill…

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Lives Wrecked When Tied to Insane Partners Urgent Need for Amended Divorce Law the Incurable

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 6

WHEN Parliament next considered the Divorce laws one of the most insistent demands will probably…

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Gas Explosion Wrecks Building. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 9

John Sibbin a gas employee, while searching for a gas leakage in the living-room attached to the shop of Claude Harrison confectioner, of Onehunga struck a match. The…

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Four Tons Of Nervous Wreck MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 9

Queenie, the four-ton elephant at the Melbourne Zoo, is a nervous wreck. Throughout last night and again to-day she has…

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Labor's Huge Drive Through Rural Areas All Parts Will Hear of Base Plan to Wreck State Peopled Voice

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 7

THE greatest country drive that the Labor Party has ever undertaken will be launched during next week, when mass demonstrations…

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The Circular That Wrecked Lang's Government

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 May 1932 · page 1

BECAUSE IT ADVISED State officials to disobey the law, the circular, of which a fragment is reproduced above, cost the Lang Government its existence. It was sent out by the Premier's Department, and demanded that members of the Public Service should deliberately flout the provisions of the Financial Agreement Enforcement Act…

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Kick That Robbed Rogerson's Backers at The Barrier Luck's Pranks With Stable Positions Wrecked All Hopes Pike's Talking Powers Notes on Turf

The Sun · Sunday 15 May 1932 · page 14

LUCK plays some queer pranks at times, as was shown yesterday, when Greenline and Golden Gate…

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"We'll Strike It" Coastal Steamer Crew Won Big Prize MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 11

"If I were you, I wouldn't be bothered sending with 10 others. Get a ticket in the lottery yourself." "Oh, I'll go in this time. Some of…

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Cup of Tea First Cool Lone Woman on Sinking Steamer Steward's Shock London

The Sun · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 1

"A CUP of tea first," was the cool demand of a woman on a sinking ship, when called by the stewards to put on her…

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Woman to Far East Held Stowaway in Steamer Changte

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 6

On a mysterious mission to the East, "to see justice done," a middle-aged woman had her first adventure before the…

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Over 100 Perish In Ocean Fire Survivors Tell Grim Story Parents Lose Children in Lifeboat Confusion ADEN

The Sun · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 11

SURVIVORS from the blazing wreck of the French luxury liner Georges Philippar, tell a harrowing story of how parents and children became separated, when the boats were launched; of passengers trapped and…

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Moth Aeroplane Crashes Into Tree at Bargo Two Aviators Crawl Out of Wreck Unhurt Machine Completely Overturns in Smash Pleasure Trip Mishap Occurred When Attempting to Land

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 8

TWO young men had remarkable escapes from death when their Moth aeroplane crashed into a tree at Bargo…

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Wrecking of A.R.U. Is Sole Aim Vicious Attack on the Union by Senator Payne Crime Bill Canberra

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 6

A VICIOUS attack by Sen. Payne on the Australian Railways Union featured a debate in the Senate to-day on…

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No "Safety First" Queer Behaviour in Shipwrecks Camera Fiend

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 6

A woman on the steamer Lochram, which struck a reef of the inner Hebrides, is reported to have demanded "a cud of tea first"…

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Mr. Lang's Record. "Wrecker of Governments."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 May 1932 · page 10

"The Scullin Government cleaned up the awful conditions caused by the Bruce Government, and the Federal Labour party, if returned, will clean up the mess caused by the…

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Tragic Ship Blaze Set by a Communist? Red Plot Alleged to Destroy Steamer Georges Philippar Fire Started by Bomb? London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 May 1932 · page 5

IT is thought that the tragic fire on the French steamer, Georges Philppar, was deliberately…

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World's Worst Tactician How Lang "Helped" the Workers Wrecker of Govts

The Land · Friday 20 May 1932 · page 1

SURELY no leader of a political party ever proved himself such an appallingly bad tactician as John Thomas Lang…

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Election Points. Mr. Lang's Wreck-strewn' Career. How the Electors Were Humbugged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 May 1932 · page 8

General State elections are to be held on June 11. Voting is compulsory. Business men must decide whether they are to trust their affairs to Mr. Lang with a party…

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