Two Hurt in Launch Wreck
Two men were injured in desperate, but vain attempts to prevent a 30ft. launch from being blown on to the rocks at…
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12 Men Rescued From Bow Half Of Wreck
HONOLULU, Saturday.--The freighter St. John's Victory (7607 tons) has rescued 10 seamen from the bow of the American tanker Fort Dearborn (10,448 tons), which broke in halves on Thursday during a violent gale 800 miles north-west of Honolulu…
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PARIS, Saturday.—Wreckage of the French airliner which has been missing since Friday, was found to-day 25 miles south of Grenoble…
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LONDON, Monday.--While more than 1,000,000 people in East London are short of water because a flood polluted big filter beds, new floods and gales threaten disaster in the Thames Valley and the Fen country…
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LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…
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LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped, by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging,around thousands of…
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LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy fain, whipped by 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…
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LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…
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LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…
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LONDON Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…
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PARIS, Monday. -- Returning to the scene of the crash through heavy blizzards, a rescue party from Grenoble…
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LONDON, Monday.--Flood wafers, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…
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NEW YORK, March 17 (A.A.P.). —Twelve men who took to an open lifeboat when the American tanker For Dearborn broke in half in the…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--The trawler Futurist ran aground early this morning near Chancet Rocks, at the mouth of the…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--The trawler Futurist ran aground early this morning near Chancet Rocks, at the mouth of the…
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NEW DELHI, March 18 (A.A.P.).—Indians who have been touring areas of the Punjab recently swept by…
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BRISBANE, Friday. -- Attempts to salvage the Dutch Dakota plane which crashed into the sea near Point Lookout, Stradbroke Island, on…
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BRISBANE, Friday. -- Attempts to salvage the Dutch Dakota plane which crashed into the sea near Point Lookout, Stradbroke Island, on…
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BRISBANE, Friday. -- Attempts to salvage the Dutch Dakota plane which crashed into the sea near Point. Lookout, Stradbroke Island, on…
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BRISBANE, Friday. -- Attempts to salvage the Dutch Dakota plane which crashed into the sea near Point Lookout. Stradbroke Island, on…
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