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  2. HUGE TIDAL WAVE

    When the Bass Strait passenger steamer Nairana was entering Port Phillip Heads this morning, a huge tidal wave rose suddenly out of a calm sea and broke over the starboard quarter, throwing the ship on her beam ends, the water reaching to the boat deck for a brief interval. ...

    Article : 162 words
  3. OLYMPIC TEAM.

    The Australian Olympic Federation executive, at its meeting on Saturday, decided that, "as funds became available, and only then, the following would be added to Australia's team ...

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  4. TRAPPED IN CAR.

    Four persons were drowned, three of them without a chance of escape, when a sedan car left the main road at a point served by a vehicular ferry, ...

    Article : 785 words
  5. MISSION TO GERMANY.

    Bitter squabbles are reported to have occurred behind the scenes at Geneva, owing to the divergence between the French and British Governments regarding the European peace plan procedure. The Locarno Powers, however, have maintained ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. DARDANELLES.

    The Turkish Government has handed certain Powers a Note asking for an amendment of the Treaty of Lausanne to permit the fortification of the ...

    Article : 273 words
  7. TWO DAYS ADRIFT.

    Mr. and Mrs. Max John Wurckner, of Janali, near Como, had a terrifying experience after their 16ft cabin launch broke down off Maroubra. ...

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  8. THE CASUALTIES.

    R. Gillow, 23, miner, of Tullah (Tas.), a passenger, killed instantly. F. Parsons, building contractor, Burnie Tas.), swept overboard and drowned. ...

    Article : 1,267 words
  9. PEACE IN EUROPE.

    The agenda of the staff talks with France and Belgium on Wednesday will be kept as simple as possible. The talks are not expected to last more than a few days. The provision ...

    Article : 1,007 words
  10. LEAGUE CENSURES GERMANY.

    A message from Geneva states that, despite somewhat conflicting accounts of what happened at the meetings of the Committee of Thirteen, some seeking to ...

    Article : 1,652 words
  11. MOTHER CHARGED.

    A youth of 14½ years was found dead with his throat cut in a Bowral home yesterday morning. A woman was arrested and charged with murder. ...

    Article : 235 words
  12. DARING ESCAPE.

    Great daring was shown by a boy who escaped from the Gosford Boys' Home yesterday. According to a report to the police, he made his way through the bush to Woy ...

    Article : 199 words
  13. TRAIN TRAGEDY.

    Herbert Kopit, who is charged with having murdered Harold Edwin Speering on the Rockhampton mail train on April 2, arrived in Brisbane to-day under police escort. He was ...

    Article : 397 words
  14. VOICE ON THE AIR.

    From early morning till the gates are closed at night, the voice of the Showground announcer booms in the ears of the thousands of spectators who throng the ring and stands, ...

    Article : 465 words
  15. MAIL ROBBERY.

    The changing of a £5 note by a storekeeper at Gayndah on Saturday led to the detention of a man in connection with the armed robbery of the Cracow mall car on March ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. FLYING BOAT.

    The flying boat Puertorican, a clipper of pan-American Airways, similar in design to those used on the Pacific service, capsized in the bay here to-day when the pilot, taking off ...

    Article : 152 words
  17. LIFE-SAVER.

    K. Wilkins, a life-saver, who became entangled in the life-line at Southport on Saturday, collapsed, and had to be brought ashoie by other llfcsavers. He had gone to ...

    Article : 153 words
  18. BLIND VETERAN

    Mr. J. T. Scrymegour, the well-known cattle breeder of Warwick, Queensland, is blind. Despite his handicap, he can discuss, with certainty and challenging accuracy the fine ...

    Article : 257 words
  19. BOMBS BY POST.

    Six dynamite bombs, disguised as Easter gift packages, were delivered through the mails to six local residents. Two infernal machines exploded, resulting ...

    Article : 245 words
  20. WOMAN MURDERED.

    Mrs. Nancy Titterton, a well-known writer of juvenile stories, who uses the pen name Nancy Evans, was found brutally murdered in the bath in her apartment in the exclusive ...

    Article : 178 words
  21. JUMPED THE FENCE.

    Great excitement and some dismay were caused during the ring events at the show on Saturday night when a bullock leaped the fence and plunged among the dense crowd of ...

    Article : 226 words
  22. MEXICAN COUP.

    The Government of President Cardonas effected a dramatic coup to-day, when it got rid of the one man likely to challenge the authority of the existing regime. ...

    Article : 139 words
  23. PILOT'S LANDING

    Mr. B. Godsall, living a Puss Moth from Mascot yesterday morning experienced much difficulty in effecting a safe landing at Bowral owing to the presence of sheep on ...

    Article : 127 words
  24. TRAIN DERAILED.

    The south bound mail train from Townsville, drawn by two heavy engines, when rounding a curve at 30 miles an hour crashed into a mob of cattle at Berajonda, near ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. MAN SHOT IN CHEEK.

    Sydney John Peterson, of Keith, was admitted to the Bordertown Hospital yesterday with about 50 shotgun pellets in his cheek. The police have arrested a boy, aged 15, at ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. MEDICAL STUDENTS KILLED.

    Two men who are believed to be winiam Thomas Gray and Herbert Masson Gilray, New Zealand medical students at Edinburgh University, were killed near Grantham when ...

    Article : 58 words
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