The driver of this semi-trailer truck laden with sulphur was fatally injured when it collided with a passenger train on the Cresco railway crossing, Bayswater, early yesterday evening. The sulphur burst into flames on the impact and the driver was trapped in the cabin. The driving cabin, engine and one front tyre are seen burning, a few minutes the smash. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 68 wordsTOKYO, Aug. 11: General MacArthur's headquarters announced tonight that Communist troops today seized the port of Pohang on the east coast of Korea. The town was in flames as ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 757 wordsTrapped in the cab of a burning truck after a collision with a passenger train, a man died before rescuers could free him at Bayswater yesterday afternoon. Another rail fatality occurred at ...
Article : 525 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 11: The Government's national health plan was a declaration of war on "killer" diseases to give Australians a longer life span, the Minister for Health (Sir Earle Page) said tonight. ...
Article : 462 wordsLONDON, Aug. 11: The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) called a Cabinet meeting at short notice today—a fortnight ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 11: The Chief of the Air Staff (Air Marshal George Jones) left ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 11: Dealers today estimated city market prices for best quality green peas at ½d. a pod, spinach at ...
Article : 131 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 11: A police inspector said in the Supreme Court today that a padlock which he bought for 16/5 was similar to two padlocks that he found on the front door of the Lonsdale-street branch ...
Article : 330 wordsBRUSSELS, Aug. 11: A smoke-bomb was thrown on the floor of the Belgian Senate building today when members of both Houses of Parliament met and passed a law transferring King Leopold's powers to ...
Article : 199 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 11: Fraud Involving many thousands of pounds may be unmasked if two pieces of brass can be recovered from the Yarra in the heart of Melbourne. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 12 Aug 1950, Page 2
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