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(I don't know what drugs the artist was on, but whatever it was, please keep it far, far away from me!)

(Long article from the Melbourne Age, 16th of August 1926, attached.)

>Against strong head winds and rough seas the crew of the ill-fated trawler Brolga, which struck Beware Reef in the small hours of yesterday morning, rowed to lonely Cape Everard, 20 miles distant, landing near the lighthouse.

>They were cold and exhausted, and had only what they stood up in.

>The men's wants were administered to there by the three keepers of the light, and to-day they were none the worse for their adventure.

>Arrangements are being made to despatch the Coolebar from Sydney to-night with salvage gear in the hope of refloating the vessel.

>MELBOURNE, Saturday.

>The trawler ran on to the dangerous Cape Beware Reef in the darkness early yesterday morning. The Brolga was returning to Sydney on a trawling , cruise, after its first visit to Melbourne with fish supplies. It has now been abandoned.

>The crew of eleven launched a lifeboat and landed at Cape Everard at 11 a.m.

>Arrangements have been made to bring the crow to Cann River, whence they will be taken to Sydney.

>The first intimation of the mishap reached the Deputy Director of Navigation (Captain L. J. Bolger) in a brief telegram from Cann River yesterday evening.

>The text of the communication was that the trawler Brolga struck Beware Reef at 2 o'clock in the morning. All hands landed safetly near Cape Everard at 10 o'clock.

>The Brolga, which was the property of the Coastal Trawling Company of New South Wales, left Melbourne on Wednesday for Sydney, where she was expected to arrive on Tuesday. She carried a crew of 11...

(From the Sydney Sun, 14th of August 1926)

(The General Strike ended in May 1926, but coal miners remained on strike. The Miner's Federation of Great Britain negotiated with mine owners through July and August, but they couldn't come to an agreement. The miners returned to work in late November, totally defeated.)

(From the Sydney Morning Herald)

>Swinging out of the sky with a roar that drowned the noise of the six other 'planes about him. Mr. Cobham's de Havilland and circled around the city yesterday, and at 4.45 landed in the midst of 6000 people at the Mascot aerodrome.

>Thus he completed, aftor 28 days of flying, the first 13,000 miles of his journey across the world from London to London.

>When he stepped from his 'plane at the end of a 700 mile journey from Charleville, he was bewildered by the wild enthusiasm of the huge crowd, which was deterred only by a cordon of police from carrying him on its shoulders to Sydney.

>Cobham said the lesson of the flight was that England had lost her insular position, and that the Empire was no longer far-flung.

From the Adelaide Advertiser, August 6th 1926:

>At a meeting of the leaders of the Opposition groups in Moscow yesterday, a resolution was carried demanding a cessation of the arrests of political leaders, and threatening to form a new party should these continue.

(We all know how well that turned out!)

>ALAN COBHAM REACHED DARWIN THIS AFTERNOON

>STIRRING WELCOME

>All Darwin Seized With Excitement

>GREAT ACHIEVEMENT BY BRITISH AVIATOR

>(FROM "THE NEWS" SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE)

>DARWIN, Today,

>Mr. Alan Cobham, the intrepid British aviator, who is flying from Great Britain to Australia and back, arrived here from Koepang (Timor) at 2.50 o'clock this afternoon,

>Darwin was agog with. excitement, and all eyes searched for a speck in the sky, which was the first sign of his arrival.

>"Mr. Cobham left Britain on June 30. The flight has thus taken 37 days, but for eight days he was delayed at Basra owing to the death of his mechanic, Mr. A. B. Elliot. who was shot by an Arab.

>Mr. Cobhliam is expected to reach Melbourne on August 14.

>Melbourne is not the terminus of the 26,000-mile flight. In this respect his journey dliffers from that of his predecessors, Sir Ross Smith, Capt. Parer and Mackintosh and de Pinedo, each of whom flew to Australia.

>The flight of Mr. Cobham is from Britain to Melbourne and back to Britain, and he will remain in Melbourne only long enough to have the machine overhauled before begining his return flight, which he has characterised as a "quick dash ."

>Mr. Cobham is carrying a mailbag containing letters from Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary of Air) to Mr. Bruce, and from the Lord Mayor of London to the Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

>In addition he is bringing an official Government mailbag containing sealed correspondence for Lord Stonehaven (Governor-General).

(From The News, Adelaide. "Mr Bruce" was the then prime minister of Australia.)

>AIR SERVICES.

>THE PROBLEM OF WEATHER.

>Mr. Cobham Is nearing the end of a difficult adventure, in which he has suffered more than a fair share of discouragement and disappointment. When his hopes were highest he was delayed by tragedy. Minor misfortunes have dislocated his plans at every turn. it will it will be interesting to learn how far Mr. Cobham's flight proves the air journey from England to be a fast, practicable mode of travel. A steamer can travel the 5000 miles or so from Aden to Fremantle in 16 days, and till might be improved. But approximately the same distance from Bandar Abbas to Darwin has occupied Mr. Cobham 18 days, or 15 days of actual flying. One question which Mr. Cobham's adventure inspires must be whether the monoons do not make fast flying across India impracticable. Would not an air service be constantly interrupted? Mr Cobham is an aviator of such experience and ability that his verdict on these matters will be awaited with interest. But in this and other flights he has demonstrated the practicability of a fast air service to the Near-East. To Bandar Abbas from England, excepting, of course, the delay which the death of Mr. Elliott forced upon him, he flew in eight days. Does not this suggest that an air route which connected at Aden with steamship services, might bring Australia nearer to England than an air line over the whole journey? Mr. Cobham and other pioneers have provedd that an air line from England thus far would not be disasterously at the mercy of the weather, which capricious and violent in India, makes sustained flying over the next stage very problematical.

(From The Sydney Morning Herald, August 5th, 1926)

From The News (Adelaide), 4th of August 1926

>At 1.30 o'clock this morning the wall of a creek running under neath Rundle Street, Kent Town, collapsed. As a result part of the foundations of the house and shop of Mrs. E. Sheridan were carried away.

>Mr. Sheridan, who heard the crash, ran out to see what had happened. He felt the loose earth beneath his feet move and jumped back in time to save himself from falling into the swirling waters.

>The creek swelled owing to the heavy rainfall in the early hours of the morning. The wall of the creek underneath the shop of Mrs. Sheridan is of brick, and the force of the rushing water weakened it. When it collapsed several feet of earth was torn away, leaving a gaping hole where formerly were the foundations of the building.

>Wooden supports now jut out, overhanging the creek. It is feared that the damage may extend, to the danger of two rooms under which the earth has been swept away.

>Mrs. Sheridan this morning calculated the damage at £700.

>"I heard a terrific crash," she said, "just as though someone was blasting a road. To our dismay we found that the earth underneath the house had partly gone.

>"Our son Thomas. was sleeping in the back room, and we rushed to get him out. As the soil in front of the door was gone, we had to get him through the side door. He slent right through the noise, and the first he knew was when we woke him up."

>Several neighbors heard the crash. In the back yard of the house the earth was so loosened that it was dangerous to walk on it. Several cracks could be plainly seen.

>A tree in the back yard was shifted two feet. It is estimated that about 30 feet of the wall has fallen in. The water was rushsing past endangering the foundations that still remain.

>Officials at Norwood Town Hall stated that the creek was a natural watercourse from the hills and ran into the Torrens. It had existed for many years, and had been built up from time to time as necessity dictated.

>While the creek (known as First Creek) was under the jurisdiction of Kensington and Norwood Corporation, the council did not accept responsibility for repairs or damage. That was a matter for the owner of the property under which the creek flowed. The corporation could order repairs and works to be done. No blame was attachable to the council. As far as could be ascertained, no complaints had been received of the state of the wall that had fallen in.

>The record of the Meteorological Bureau this morning showed that 69 points of rain had fallen in Adelaide between midnight on Tuesday and 1 o'clock this morning. It was accompanied by heavy hail and thunder.

The art makes even the most mundane products look glamorous!

From The Brisbane Courier, July the 29th 1926:

>The Commonwealth Department of Health has decided to carry out experiments for the prevention of tuberculosis by vaccination, and for this purpose has obtained cultures from which vaccine of a promising nature has been produced in France by Professor Calmette, one of the leading pathologists and bacteriologists of theworld.

>Tests made upon animals and infants by Professor Calmette, it is claimed, have been attended with good results. The Commonwealth Health Department proposes to conduct in Australia work similar to that being performed by Professor Calmette. The Calmette vaccine is used for preventive vaccination, and curative properties are not claimed for it.

Picture is of damage to the Scobie Docks in Titusville, Florida.

Text is from the Daily Standard (Brisbane) on the 28th of July 1928:

DEVASTATING GALES.

£10,000,000 Damage In the Bahamas.

A STEAMER'S S.O.S.

(AUSTRALIAN CABLE SERVICE)

Miami, Tuesday.

Hurricanes continue along the Florida coast. The centre of the damage is evidently at Nassau. Losses there and throughout the Bahamas total £10,000,000. An Italian steamer sent an S.O.S. It was wallowing in the seas, helpless, with a smashed rudder, and 140 passengers on board. The steamers West Harshaw and Orizaba hurried to her assistance, but were unable to transfer the passengers in the high seas. They were still standing by in an 80 mile gale late this afternoon.

20 PERSONS DROWNED.

Damage at Porto Rico totalled £2,000,000. Twenty people were drowned.

>Dozens of soft drink parlors in Buffalo and vicinity have been closed by the police following the deaths of 30 persons here and in nearby towns over the week-end from drinking "bootleg"' liquor impregnated with wood alcohol.

>Many of the victims suffered terrible deaths, going stone blind before expiring in agony.

>Two bootleggers have been arrested and charged with murder.

From The News (Adelaide) July the 27th 1926.

>Captain Cobliam, flew yesterday down the River Ganges from Allahabad to Calcutta, in continuance of his 'flight from England to Australia.

>He is confident that if he safely crosses the-riskiest lap from India to Burmah the chances of mishap later will be insignificant.

>("Sun" Special)

>ALLAHABAD, Friday.
After a short monsoonal shower the sun burst out brilliantly as Captain Cobham rose from the Jumna at 5 a.m. to-day (1 p.m. Sydney time) for his journey to Calcutta.

>CALCUTTA, Friday.
Captain Cobham arrived here at 3 p.m. to-day (8 p.m. Sydney time), taking five hours for the run from Patna. The bathing ghats (landing stairs) on both banks were crowded with spectators as the plane alighted on the River Hooghly.

>The observer at Patna of "The Sun's" special representative telephoned earlier thai the plane was seen flying eastward along the Ganges. Large crowds turned out to see the seaplane, which was flying well.

>After the seaplane was secured to its buoy, Captain Cobham lunched on the Burma Oil Co.'s launch, and then attended to the refuelling of his machine. He expressed anxiety about the safety of the wings and the way his plane was lurching In the strong current.

>Interviewed later he said he was entering perhaps the riskiest lap of his journey, from Calcutta to Rangoon. The seaplane, however, was behaving splendidly. The engine was in perfect order.

>He had encountered strong headwinds and intermittent heavy rain all the way from Allahabad to Calcutta. Between showers, however, visibility was good.

>Captain Cobham felt that if he negotiates the journey from Calcutta

>to Akyab (Burmah) and Rangoon without mishap, he will not encounter any difficulty afterwards.

>He expects to leave for Akyab tomorrow morning, and to depart from there the day after.

>The Hooghly, or Huffli, is the westernmost and principal deltaic channel of the Ganges, formed by the Junction of three offsets of the, main river. It is 125 miles long, the estuary measuring 35 miles more. It Is the most available of all the channels by which the Ganges reaches the sea. In the dry season the tide is felt as high as 17 miles above Calcutta. The Hooghly is subject to a tidal bore seven foot high, which often travels at the rate of 22 miles an hour.

(From the Sydney Sun, 24th of July 1926)

From the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, 23rd of July 1926.