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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943

483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 25

Conscript Frenchmen Wreck Nazi Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).--French workers in Germany in the last two months have wrecked 5000 lorries, and wasted 300 tons of petrol. This evidence of sabotage by…

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Short Story by an Australian Author the Wrecked Hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 9

HARDY POTTER jammed his foot hard on the brake and waited for the inevitable. It came one second later with a heart-rending crash, when the back wheel of the large sedan tore into the side of his roadster HE was vaguely aware of the car…

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Short Story by an Australian Author the Wrecked Hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 9

HARDY POTTER jammed his foot hard on the brake and waited for the inevitable. It came one second later with a heart-rending crash, when the back wheel of the large sedan tore into the side of his roadster HE was vaguely aware of the car…

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Short Story by an Australian Author the Wrecked Hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 9

HARDY POTTER jammed his foot hard on the brake and waited for the inevitable. It came one second later with a heart-rending crash, when the back wheel off the I large sedan tore into the side of his roadster HE was vaguely aware of the car…

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Short Story by an Australian Author the Wrecked Hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 9

HARDY POTTER jammed his foot hard on the brake and waited for the inevitable. it came one second later with a heart-rending crash, when the back wheel of the large sedan tore into the side of his roadster HE was vaguely aware of the car…

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Short Story by an Australian Author the Wrecked Hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 9

HARDY POTTER jammed his foot hard on the brake and waited for the inevitable. It came one second later with a heart-rending crash, when the back wheel of the large sedan tore into the side of his roadster HE was vaguely aware of the car…

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Overseas Export Manifests South Australia Pacific Australian Steamer. Sailed Adelaide

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 4 May 1943 · page 3

Elder Smith & Co., Ltd., Agents. Commonwealth of Australia, 88 bls sheepskings Wm. Haughton & Co., 200 bls…

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Overseas Export Manifests South Australia Pacific Australian Steamer. Sailed Adelaide. Elder Smith 4 Co.. Ltd.. Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 May 1943 · page 3

Commonwealth of Australia, 33 bls sheepskins Wm, Haughton & Co., 200 bls sheepskins…

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"Many Young Lives Being Wrecked"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1943 · page 7

"Your attendance will be a helpful and significant gesture; for it will how the sympathy that our authorities as have with this effort to capture…

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Overseas Export Manifests South Australia Pacific Australian Steamer. Sailed Adelaide

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 6 May 1943 · page 3

Elder Smith & Co., Ltd., Agents. Commonwealth of Australia, 33 bls sheepskins Wm. Haughton & Co., 200 bls…

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Overseas Export Manifests South Australia Pacific Australian Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 3

Sailed Adelaide. Elder Smith & Co., Ltd., Agents. Commonwealth of Australia, 33 bls sheepskins…

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Wreckage at Stalingrad

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 7

The battle-scarred Volga embankment at Stalingrad littered with wreckage after the Germans had been repulsed with heavy losses by the Red Army defenders…

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Surprise Raid on Jap Float Planes Fighters Wreck Nine In Ten Wild Minutes

The Sun · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 2

In a surprise early morning raid yesterday, Beaufighters from General MacArthur's command, destroyed nine float planes at the Japs' base at Taberfane, Aroe Islands. Cannon fire from one raider cut in half a lugger filled with…

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Gallantry of Lifeboat Crews Steamer and 35 Lives Saved

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 8 May 1943 · page 2

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has awarded its Silver Medal to Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, County Cork, for a rescue lasting nearly 30 hours, in which the lifeboat saved the Dublin steamer Irish Ash, and her crew of…

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Overseas Export Manifests South Australia Pacific Australian Steamer. Sailed Adelaide

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 3

Elder Smith & Co., Ltd., Agents. Commonwealth of Australia. 88 bls sheepskins Wm. Haughton & Co., 200 bls…

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War's Greatest Day Raid U.S. Planes Wreck Big Sicilian Base

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Monday,--One square mile of the harbor area was devastated in the great American air-raid on Palermo (Sicily) yesterday, pilots report…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales British Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Gibbs Bright & Co., I,td., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 2

Shippers, 74 pkgs leather, 20 sks broad beans, 1 bg clover seed, 37S cs butter fat, 1 ctn books, 7 cs cardboard cones, 661 cs comforts, 2…

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Turf Club Bill Might Wreck Govt.--mr. Mair

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 12

"You are entering into a commitment here which may wreck any Government said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Mair) in the Legislative Assembly last night in a spirited attack in committee on the Sydney Turf Club Bill…

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Turf Club Bill Might Wreck Govt.--mr. Mair

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 12

"You are entering into a commitment here which may wreck any Government," said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Mair) in the Legislative Assembly last night in a. spirited attack in committee on the Sydney Turf Club Bill. "MR. MAIR was dealing particularly…

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Turf Club Bill Might Wreck Govt.--mr. Mair

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 12

"You are entering into a commitment here which may wreck any Government," said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Mair) in the Legislative Assembly last night in a spirited attack in committee on the Sydney Turf Club Bill…

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