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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943

483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 25

Way Open for Wreckers Curtin Govt's. Astounding Attitude To Communism

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1943 · page 10

LIFTING of the ban on the Communists, the tolerant attitude of the Federal Labor Government towards their organisation, and now the granting of newsprint licences for the production of four Communist newspapers in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, to amaze and stagger the rank…

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Darwin Wreck As Breakwater

The Sun · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

Blasted to the bottom of Darwin harbor by Japs, a ship is to be blasted again to convert it from a dead loss into an…

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Daring Raid By Dutch Wreckers

The Sun · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--Dutch patriots are still thwarting Nazi efforts to recruit slave-labor gangs…

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French Wreck Bauxite Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--A German bauxite mine has been so badly damaged by French saboteurs that it will be out of…

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Wreckage Found in N.z. Search for Fliers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 6

WELLINGTON, Wednesday.— Wreckage has been found, which, it is believed, is portion of the R.N.Z.A.F. flying-boat, reported missing while…

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Risks On Wreckage

The Sun · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 3

Boilermakers using oxy-welding lamps on wreckage ran grave risks of injury from the…

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Trait Falls From Wrecked Bridge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. -- A train crashed through a bridge at Naples, which had been bombed by the R.A.F., it is reported from Algiers…

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Hunt For Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 2

A high police official said today that detectives were redoubling their efforts to locate the persons responsible for placing…

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Hunt For Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 2

A high police official said today that detectives were redoubling their efforts to locate the persons responsible for placing…

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Hunt For Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 2

A high police official said today that detectives were redoubling their efforts to locate the persons responsible for placing…

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Hunt For Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 2

A high police official said today that detectives were redoubling their efforts to locate the persons responsible for placing…

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Hunt For Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 2

A high police official said today that detectives were redoubling their efforts to locate the persons responsible tor placing…

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Hunt For Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 2

A high police official said to-day that detectives were redoubling their efforts to locate the persons responsible for placing…

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Old Georgian building saved from wrecker

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 June 1943 · page 4

National Security Regulations have saved temporarily from the wreckers one of the last remaining examples of early Georgian architecture in Sydney, a two-storied building at 162a-164 Phillip Street…

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Plan to Wreck Plants Denied

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 3

OTTAWA, Thursday (A.A.P.).--Reports of a secret agreement to destroy all synthetic rubber plants in the U.S.A. after the war were mentioned…

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Spies May Wreck Dam

The Sun · Monday 21 June 1943 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Sunday.--Theft of 350 pounds of dynamite from a tunnel three miles from Parker Dam has given rise to the fear of sabotage by Japanese agents. Guards have been instructed…

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Youths Stole Lifeboat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Thomas Grady (17) and Robert Gruchy (19) were each sentenced to three months' gaol at, Glasgow for stealing a…

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Youths Stole Lifeboat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Thomas Grady (17) and Robert Gruchy (19) were each sentenced to three months' gaol at Glasgow for stealing a…

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Youths Stole Lifeboat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Thomas Grady (17) and Robert Gruchy (19) were each sentenced to three months' gaol at Glasgow for stealing a…

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