SYDNEY, Wed: Three naval ratings were killed and 20 others (18 naval ratings and two dockyard workers) shockingly injured in a terrific explosion which wrecked the stem of the RAN LST Tarakan at the Garden Island (Sydney Harhour) naval wharf soon after 8 a.m. today. Most of the men were trapped below decks and could not be rescued until huge holes had been cut ...
Article : 587 wordsCANBERRA, Wed: In his first detailed statement on petrol rationing since the Cabinet investigation began Prime Minister Menzies announced this afternoon that he hoped to make a statement within the ...
Article : 346 wordsRATION tickets for the February supply of petrol will be available on the same scale as previously at ...
Article : 61 wordsDoctors said that all the Tarakan victims were seriously injured and that some of the more critically ill ...
Article : 200 wordsKALGOORLIE, Wed: After his 20-months-old baby had been fatally injured when a motor truck overturned ...
Article : 135 wordsBELIEVED to be suffering from septicemia, three-year-old Agnieszka Mentel, one of 250 migrant children who arrived at Fremantle in the Dundalk Bay today, is carried ashore by St. John ambulance driver E. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsAble-Seaman J. H. Bastin-Byrne who was in the messroom was informed by another rating just before the ...
Article : 90 wordsDeputy Fuehrer to Adolf Hitler and Leader of the Nazi Party which in 1939 brought total war ...
Article : 142 wordsBlood samples, taken from a man who died recently at Royal Perth Hospital, have been sent to England for special testing. A Sydney serologist (serum specialist) diagnosed the man's blood as containing a destructive anti-body which doctors have discovered only twice before—in patients in ...
Article : 241 wordsSYDNEY, Wed: Detectives investigating the disappearance of jewellery valued at £3000 from a ...
Article : 82 wordsNaval officers and police, including members of the CIB scientific bureau, have not been able to discover why the ...
Article : 66 wordsWarm weather is expected to continue in Perth. It was slightly warmer in the city today when the ...
Article : 51 wordsBOSTON, Tues (AAP): Two armed bandits today stole a 1910-dollar payroll from the exclusive Union Club 25 minutes after it had been delivered fcy an armoured truck of Brinks Inc. ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY, Wed: One of the luckiest men in Sydney is stoker mechanic A. Wigham (23). He left the mess room of the LST Tarakan just before it was blown up. ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Wed 25 Jan 1950, Page 1
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