Yacht wreckage washed ashore 19 men feared drowned in tragic race
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sat.--Six yachtsmen in the Wellington-Lyttelton ocean yacht race are believed to have drowned when their craft…
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Red plot to wreck Aust. revealed
In a sensational warning to State Ministers this week, the Federal Minister for Labor (Mr. Holt) said that the threatened coal strike was part of a Communist plot to wreck…
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WOY WOY police are investigating the finding today of two bottles containing messages…
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There is a plot behind what miners term the “Gallagher award swindle”— it is a Menzies Government plot to whip up anti-Communist hysteria on the eve of the High Court decision on the Communist Party Dissolution Act…
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MONTREAL, Thurs. (A.A.P.). -- The Premier of Quebec (Mr. Duplessis) said last night he believed saboteurs had wrecked the Duplessis Bridge…
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Cronulla winning heat two of the B crews' senior surfboat race at Maroubra yesterday…
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TAIPEH, Tuesday. -- An R.A.F. Sunderland, which was reported missing on a flight between Japan and Hongkong on…
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TAIPEH, Tuesday.-- An R.A.F. Sunderland, which was reported missing on a flight between Japan and Hongkong on…
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TAIPEH, Tuesday.--An R.A.F. Sunderland, which was reported missing on a flight between Japan, and Hongkong on…
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TAIPEH, Tuesday.--An R.A.F. Sunderland, which was reported missing on a flight between Japan and Hongkong on…
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TAIPEH, Tuesday. -- An R.A.F. Sunderland, which was reported missing on a flight between Japan and Hongkong on…
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Immigration officers last night refused to allow a Spaniard who stowed away in the liner Chungking to land in…
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PALERMO, Thurs.--A young Sicilian who tried to kidnap a beautiful girl mistakenly carried off her aged father instead. Police spent all Tuesday…
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ON September 4, 1621, Plymouth Harbor echoed to the rattle of anchor chains and shouted orders as an East India Company merchantman…
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BATTERED and bruised and with blood trickling from his eyes, a penguin staggered out of the sea at Albert Park, Melbourne, yesterday and was waddling' across the street when it met Mr. David Ottenson…
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Two policemen last night chased and fought two men who had smashed in a door and wrecked a Rushcutters Bay apartment. The men had demanded…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- Five American vessels had been washed aground by a storm in Tokio Bay yesterday…
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GOSFORD, Thurs.--The District Coroner (Mr. C. T. Staples) praised the "wonderful fortitude and bravery" of survivors of the wrecked collier Kiama at an inquest today…
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Authorities at Bombay yesterday would not allow 856 Australia-bound passengers ashore from the liner Strathnaver, which has influenza cases aboard…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Wreckage, which might be that of the missing shark boat…
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