Wrecker Who Reeked Not
ONE September day, Watchman John Drexel, whose duties included guarding the closed Chicago stone-cutting plant of the St. Louis…
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Schooner's Victory In Cup Race YACHTING
The schooner, Windward, owned by J. M. Hardie, gave a splendid demonstration in a stiff south-easterly breeze…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amazing Anti-british Plot When Italy Planned To Wreck Empire Now Revealed--Great Coup To Capture Suez, Malta, Egypt. How Navy Overawed Mussolini And Blocked Desperate Attack By Sea And Air LONDON
The discovery of an amazing Italian plot, during the Abyssinian War, to blast Britain out of the Mediterranean and the Near East is the substance of an exclusive revelation in the London "Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage of Air Disaster Cairo
The discovery by a frontier patrol on the wreckage of a Vega Gull, and three bodies near the Western Desert, reveals the failure of the Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Panaghis Ashore Abandoned Near Port Elizabeth
The Greek freighter Panaghis, of 5,187 gross tons, which has been chartered to load a cargo of wheat at Western Australia for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Valuable Bulbs. Salvage From Wreck. Melbourne
Ranunculi corms valued at £500 were recovered to-day from the wreck of the Saros at Cape Everard. The corms were consigned by Mr. Stinton,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lifeboat Rides Huge Waves New Ski-ing Dresses Boycott Parade
IN THE TEETH of a raging gale and with mountainous waves impeding their progress, survivors of the Newsome are shown in one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Steamer's Dash with Holds Afire
FIRE broke out twice in the holds of the steamer Hunter during her voyage from Newcastle to Sydney yesterday morning. The master (Captain R. de…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Steamer Not Yet Subdued Perth
While any danger appears to have passed, it will be some days before the fire in the bunker of the Greek freighter Stavros C[?]umantares, 5528…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greek Steamer on Fire Firefighters' Difficult Task PERTH
A fire started in the bunkers of the Greek steamer Stavros Coumantaros shortly after the vessel had arrived at Geraldton on Monday to commence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plane Attacks Steamer. Member of Crew Wounded. MARSEILLES, Feb 22
A plane machine-gunned the French steamer Prado, 15 miles from Valencia. One member of the crew was wounded. A destroyer left Toulon for the scene at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Dramatic Dash to Port Steamer With Fire In Hold Little Damage
WHILE 75 passengers slept soundly in their bunks, the coastal steamer Hunter, bound front Newcastle to Sydney, steamed at full…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Outbreak of Fire on Steamer Hunter — Bear's Clever Circus Act — Queensland Life—savers at Play
The steamer Hunter, which reached Sydney yesterday morning with a fire in No. I hold. Alongside is the fire-float Pluvius, which fought the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Speedy Sydney Schooner
J. M. Hardie's schooner, Windward, easy winner of Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Jap. Steamer Brings Small Cargo Brisbane
Carrying only 255 tons of cargo for all ports, the Nippon Yusen Kalsha freighter Morloka Maru arrived at Brisbane to-day with the smallest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Wheat Loading New British Steamer Gemstone
The British cargo steamer Gemstone has been launched by Sir James Laing & Sons, Ltd., Dcptford Yard, Sunderland. She has been built for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Bombed Off Spain Ominous Silence Since Attack London
THE French steamer Regina Pacis (997 tons), was bombed 12 miles east of Valencia. No further news has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the Rodney Sydney Harbour
One of Sydney's worst disasters, With apalling loss of life, When someone lost a mother, Father, brother, sister, wife:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HIGHLIGHTS from the World of Sport Wreckage At Empiad Village Walls Smashed With Vaulting Pole
WHAT REALLY did take place at the Empire Village when certain oversea athletes worked off some of their superabundant energy? Stories concerning these episodes have ranged from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion, Fire Wreck Factory
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Preceded by an explosion which shook buildings for many blocks, a fire destroyed the premises of the Paratex Rubber Works,…
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