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  2. Three Dead, 20 Badly Hurt When RAN ship Explodes

    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 words
  3. MENZIES DETAILS FUEL PROBLEM

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  4. TICKETS FOR FEBRUARY

    RATION tickets for the February supply of petrol will be available on the same scale as previously at ...

    Article : 61 words
  5. SOME INJURED RATINGS MAY NOT LIVE

    Doctors said that all the Tarakan victims were seriously injured and that some of the more critically ill ...

    Article : 200 words
  6. Father's 16 Mile Run For Help

    KALGOORLIE, Wed: After his 20-months-old baby had been fatally injured when a motor truck overturned ...

    Article : 135 words
  7. To Hospital From Shin

    BELIEVED 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 words
  8. CALL WAS LUCKY

    Able-Seaman J. H. Bastin-Byrne who was in the messroom was informed by another rating just before the ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. The Riddle Of Hess

    Deputy Fuehrer to Adolf Hitler and Leader of the Nazi Party which in 1939 brought total war ...

    Article : 142 words
  10. BLOOD FROM DEAD PERTH MAN SENT TO ENGLAND

    Blood 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 words
  11. RATS RAID JEWEL CACHE

    SYDNEY, Wed: Detectives investigating the disappearance of jewellery valued at £3000 from a ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. No Suspicion Of Sabotage

    Naval officers and police, including members of the CIB scientific bureau, have not been able to discover why the ...

    Article : 66 words
  13. IT WILL STAY WARM

    Warm weather is expected to continue in Perth. It was slightly warmer in the city today when the ...

    Article : 51 words
  14. Last Word In Page 1

    BOSTON, 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 words
  15. STOKER LEFT MESSROOM JUST BEFORE EXPLOSION

    SYDNEY, 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. ...

    Article : 82 words
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