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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

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Editorial Wreckers Mustn't Get Another Chance

The Sun · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 3

Now that even the miners have been forced to realise, the utter failure of their strike, the people of Australia will want to know what plans the Government can offer as…

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Desolation in 'Quake-wrecked City

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 4

Main street of Ambatoo, Ecuador, is filled with rubble from buildings which collapsed during the earthquake last Friday. At left, a car lies crushed against a building. New earth tremors are bringing renewed terror to the stricken survivors of the city…

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Desolation in 'Quake-wrecked City

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 4

Main street of Ambatoo, Ecuador, is filled with rubble from buildings which collapsed during the earthquake last Friday. At left, a car lies crushed against a building. New earth tremors are bringing renewed terror to the stricken survivors of the city…

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Desolation in 'Quake-wrecked City

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 4

Main street of Ambatoo, Ecuador, is filled with rubble from buildings which collapsed during the earthquake last Friday. At left, a car lies crushed against a building. New earth tremors are bringing renewed terror to the stricken survivors of the city…

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Chimney Wrecked in Gunpowder Explosion

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2

A charge of gunpowder, placed at the base of the chimney of a house in Redman Rd., Dee Why, last night, partly wrecked the chimney and shattered a window and fibro sheeting. OWNER of the house, Mr…

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Chimney Wrecked in Gunpowder Explosion

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2

A charge of gunpowder, placed at the base of the chimney of a house in Redman Rd., Dee Why, last night, partly wrecked the chimney and shattered a window and fibro sheeting. OWNER of the house, Mr…

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Chimney Wrecked in Gunpowder Explosion

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2

A charge of gunpowder, placed cut the base of the chimney of a house in Redman Rd., Dee Why, last- night, partly wrecked the chimney and shattered a window and fibro sheeting. OWNER of the house, Mr,…

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Chimney Wrecked in Gunpowder Explosion

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2

A charge of gunpowder, placed at the base of the chimney of a house in Redman Rd., Dee Why, last night, partly wrecked the chimney and shattered a window and fibro sheeting. OWNER of the house, Mr…

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Tragic Accident Wrecked Romance

Truth · Sunday 14 August 1949 · page 2

Edmund Ignatius Daly (25), a member of the R.A.A.F., 17 Silver St., Marrickville, who was killed on Friday…

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Now Let Us Get Rid of the Red Wreckers

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 14 August 1949 · page 2

SO, with the rush back to work to-morrow, the great coal strike is over—bar cleaning up the mess. And what a mess!…

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Berserk Man Wrecks Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 1

A 36-year-old man who ran amuck in a house in Blair Street, North Bondi, last night smashed windows, mirrors and electrical fittings with his bare hands…

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Amethyst Sank Passenger Steamer In Flight From Yangtse: Full Story PEIPING.—

Tribune · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2

The whole course of the Amethyst incident is a reminder to the Chinese people of the viciousness, hypocrisy and shamelessness of the imperialists, no matter who they are,” says the new China Newsagency commentary on the escape of the British sloop Amethyst from the Yangtse on July 30. [SINCE Prime Minister Chifley…

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Four Years Of "Blitz" By Red Wreckers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2

To hear Ministers and Labour leaders talk one would think the coal strike was the first time the Communists had been shown up. But have the Communists ever wanted…

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Migrant steamer diversion denied

The Sun · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 16

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- The immigrant ship Fairsea was not diverted to Fremantle…

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Red Wreckers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

Sir,—As Mr. Warwick Fairfax clearly shows, the core of the matter is the right to strike. There is a lot of muddled thinking…

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Jack Goes Ashore—and Stays! British Ratings Desert From The R.A.N. Cannot Find Homes

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 21 August 1949 · page 5

Some former Royal Navy ratings have deserted from the Royal Australian Navy, and others threaten to…

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Ketch's Race with Hurt Man

The Sun · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Melbourne ketch Kurrewa III is running for Palmyra Island with one of her crew in urgent…

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Seas threaten stranded freighter Crew Taken Ashore in Lifeboat

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tues.--Heavy seas Threaten to destroy the 3322-tons freighter Time, which stranded on Corsair Reef, Port Phillip Heads, at…

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Mission launch wrecked: officers, crew get ashore

The Sun · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 1

KEMPSEY, Friday.-- Three officers and the crew of five New Hebridean natives swam ashore when the 45-feet £10,000 diesel launch Leleo was driven to the beach at Crescent Head in a storm early today. All eight are safe and…

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Mission Launch Driven Ashore En Route For New Hebrides Hopes for Salvage If Weather Improves

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Friday.-- The 45-foot diesel mission launch Leleo,which left Sydney on Tuesday afternoon for the New Hebrides, was driven ashore near Crescent Head between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. today…

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