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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938

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Launch Struck by Steamer at 1 A.M. Two Men Had Long Wait

The Sun · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 1

Broken down and at anchor three miles off North Head at 1 a.m., to-day a 25-ft. fishing launch was struck by an unknown coastal steamer. Someone on the bridge shouted, "Where do…

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You've Got to Admit This Is a Fair Go (Cow) Lincoln Lang Carried Shoulder High by Cheering Thousands Labor Wrecker's Hurried Escape From Menacing Mob

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 4

ADDRESSING a huge and wildly enthusiastic public meeting at the back of the Auburn School of Arts last night, Mr. J. T. Lang, Grand Old Man of Australian Labor, gave a masterly outline of the United Labor Party's platform for the next elections…

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Will Mussolini Wreck Chamberlain? Desperate Duce Must Have Britain's Help Eden's Resignation May Bring Crisis Yet London

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1938 · page 1

SO great has been the upsurge of public resentment at the manner in which Mr. Anthony Eden was sacrificed at the behest of Dictator Mussolini, to make way for conversations between Italy and Britain, that the negotiations will now open in the most unfavorable…

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Ace Effort in Newmarket Wrecked All Records Many Punters Moaned When Judge Failed To Place Mohican FLEMINGTON

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1938 · page 2

"A JAX THE WRECKER" flashed down the Flemington straight six to-day to add to his already voluminous tally of records. He tacked the V.R.C. Newmarket to his list of celebrated victories. HE carried 9.0, and by 2lbs. wrecked the previous weight-carrying record of a…

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Fishing Launch Run Down by Coastal Steamer Off Heads

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 6

To be struck by a coastal steamer when the engine of their 25-feet launch had broken down early on Saturday morning was the…

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9 Winners on Saturday "Sportsman" Wrecks Rosebery Ring Double-Up Bet and XXX Special Bolt Home Green Paper Punters on Velvet

Sydney Sportsman · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 1

IF you are suffering from acute appendicitis, you don't bother going to a blacksmith or an oxy-welder to have it fixed up. You consult a surgeon and have the trouble removed. The same applies…

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Search for Air Force Plane. Given Up and Renewed. Report of Wreckage. London, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 9

After the Air Ministry had abandoned its search for the missing Vickers Wellesley bombing plane, which has been missing since 7 a.m. on Thursday,…

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Barren Search in Wilds Scottish Border "Wreckage" LONDON

The Sun · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 5

Search among the hills of the Anglo-Scottish border to-day for the missing Vickers Wellesley bomber, was again barren of results…

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Iron Chieftain Broken Hill Pty. Co.'s New Cargo Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 2 March 1938 · page 5

The fourth new steamer built abroad for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Ltd., the Iron Chieftain, is expected at…

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"Public Enemy No. 1" to Boxers He Wrecks Hopes of Visitors

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1938 · page 21

Fred Henneberry, Australian middleweight, is "public enemy No. 1" of visiting fighters…

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Now We'll Give You The FACTS About Carroll Yes, Jack Steps Down, But Those Who Said He Was A Physical Wreck Didn't Know The Truth His Doctor Tells "The Referee"

Referee · Thursday 3 March 1938 · page 3

JACK CARROLL is through. The news has been flashed over the continent. They know it now in…

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Soviet Trial. Twenty Plead Guilty. "In Pay of Britain." Spying and Wrecking Alleged. Moscow, Mar. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 March 1938 · page 11

All the 21 accused men except Nikolai Krestinsky (a former Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs) pleaded guilty at the opening of the great…

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Wrecked to Slow Japanese

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 March 1938 · page 3

THIS GIANT RAILROAD BRIDGE, spanning the Yellow River, was blasted by retreating Chinese to slow down the advance of Japanese invaders. Japanese forces can be seen slowly crossing the frozen river, while Chinese drivers of oxen carts, who had been hired by the Japanese, wait to transport their supplies…

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Lifeboat Rescues Crew Indian Durbar Bruno Mussolini Relaxes

The Sun · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 8

LIFEBOAT MEN rescuing the crew of the smack, Lucky Hit, from the rigging of the ship wrecked on the pier at Lowestoft (Suffolk). SONJA HENIE, doing one of her leaps at an exhibition at the Madison Square Garden, New York…

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Cook Islands' Evil Days Effect Of Loss Of Steamer Link

The Sun · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 14

Since the abandonment of the Union Royal Mail Line between Sydney and San Francisco, the Cook Islands have suffered, said Mr. Robert…

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Leviathan Goes Down to the Wreckers' Hands New York, February 5

The Sun · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 4

FROM the pride of launching, from blue riband races and the brilliance and glamor of the hey-days on the High Seas, to the modern ocean liner, comes all too soon the sad ending…

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Sty Wrecked by Bomb Victorian Vendetta Believed Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 8

Onion growers in the Cororooke district, near Colac, are being harassed by opponents of the Onion Pool, according to police who are…

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Nat. Coalition Nearly Wrecked Bruxner's Threat To Resign Steam-roller Is Run Over C.P. Nominee Contest for Yass

The Labor Daily · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 1

A CRISIS threatening to wreck the U.A.P.-U.C.P. coalition was averted yesterday only by Mr. A. J. Christian, a member of the Central Council of the U.C.P., who had been endorsed by…

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Financiers Called Wreckers By Ford New York

The Sun · Sunday 6 March 1938 · page 2

Henry Ford, multi-millionaire car-maker, to-day lashed out at American financiers. "If this small group is successful, prices will go up and…

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Schooner's Win Never Seemed In Doubt

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 15

The schooner Windward repeated her all-the-way win of a fortnight ago, in the Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club's No. 1…

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