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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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The Wreckers

The Sun · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 4

Queensland is in a state of emergency, and the industrial situation in NSW such that within one day thousands of people…

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Foreigners Trying To Wreck A List

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 7

BRISBANE, Thursday.--A small percentage, of foreigners living in Australia were not only attempting to wreck the country, but were also guilty of sedition, Mr. Justice Brennan said tonight. He was replying to a statement…

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Reefers made him feel a wreck

The Sun · Sunday 7 July 1946 · page 2

Maryland's Justice Commission Director James Hepbron had smoked reefers. Reefers, or goofsticks, are…

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British Club Wrecked Italians Resent Trieste Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, July 8 (A.A.P.).—In another protest demonstration against the decision of the Foreign Ministers' Council to…

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Ship's Crew Searched Before Allowed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 2

MEMBERS of the crew of the Mariposa being taken into the Customs office on the wharf at Pyrmont today to be searched…

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Ship's Crew Searched Before Allowed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 2

MEMBERS of the crew of the Mariposa, being taken into the Customs office on the wharf at Pyrmont today to be searched…

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Ship's Crew Searched Before Allowed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 2

MEMBERS of the crew of the Mariposa being-taken into the Customs office on the wharf at Pyrmont today to he searched…

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Ship's Crew Searched Before Allowed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 2

MEMBERS of the crew of. the Mariposa being taken into the Customs office on the wharf at Pyrmont today to be searched…

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Ship's Crew Searched Before Allowed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 2

MEMBERS of the crew of the Mariposa being taken into the Customs office oh the wharf at Pyrmont today to be searched…

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'Com' Dictatorship in Queensland Unions Disillusioned Workers Seek Govt.'s Order to Open Works Hostile Resolutions Against Red Wreckers in Industry

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 1

After a Communist-controlled strike—now in its 18th week—in the Brisbane meat industry, which involved the declaration by the Labor Government of a state of emergency and rigid restrictions of power and…

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Ketch Dwellers Plan Cruise

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 9

HOME ABOARD their ketch. "Bin Tiang Siang," anchored in Rose Bay, Mr. and Mrs. Diarmuid Jennings play with their dog, Ace. They are looking for a crew to help them sail their 46ft. craft to New Zealand…

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Wife Foundered When She Forsook 'Gibraltar' Adrift with Her Boss

Truth · Sunday 14 July 1946 · page 22

EMOTIONALLY shaken at times, when he spoke about the wife who betrayed him, affluent-looking Sydney Bertram Horwitz, 55-years-old native of…

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Dog, 13, Not Allowed Ashore

The Sun · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 3

A near - blind 13 - year - old terrier who arrived from Shanghai today will not be allowed to land in Sydney despite the…

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Queensland Unionists Denounce Red Wreckers Revolt Against "Com." Dictatorship Meat Workers, Miners, Waterside Workers Resume Work

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 1

Queensland Unionists staged the greatest anti-Communist demonstration in the history of Trades Unionism in that State at meetings of striking meatworkers and waterside workers in Brisbane last week…

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Three Weeks In Wrecked Barge

The Sun · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 3

DARWIN, Wednesday. -- Mr. Burnett- Reed, mining engineer, and his wife are believed to have been stranded for three weeks in a wrecked landing barge off the east coast…

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Violent Typhoon Lashes Hongkong, Wrecks Ships

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 3

HONGKONG, Friday.--A 120 m.p.h. typhoon lashed the Hongkong area yesterday. Several vessels were wrecked, but no casualties were…

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Magnetic Mine Blast Sinks British Ship 8 Men Die In Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--In the worst British sea disaster since the end of the war, eight men were killed when the…

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Eight Dead, 50 Injured in Explosion Huge Blast Wrecks Shops, Apartments Disaster Stuns Holiday Resort

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 5

NEW YORK, Friday.--At least eight were kilted and 50 injured by a gas explosion in Onset, a Massachusetts summer resort, yesterday…

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Magnetic Mine Blast Sinks British Ship 8 Men Die In Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--In the Worst British sea disaster since the end of the war, eight men were killed when the…

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Magnetic Mine Blast Sinks British Ship 8 Men Die In Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--In the worst British sea disaster since the end of the war, eight men were killed when the…

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