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Newspaper
Warwick Daily News
Location
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 12, 1954
Page
4
Kingston visitors glimpse the ruins of Port Royal once a wealthier yet vile pirate hub. The 1692 earthquake and tsunami levelled the town, killing thousands, sending survivors to found Kingston, while buccaneers looted, enslaved, and waged near-constant vice amid warehouses and ships.
The piece links Port Royal and Captain Morgan through a history of piracy, battles, and brutal raids across the Caribbean. It notes Morgan’s death and Port Royal’s fame, detailing sacking of Maracaibo and Panama, his rule over Port Royal, and the city’s later riots and religious enforcement. It mentions treasure legends, Jamaican governance, and lingering memory of buccaneers in Kingston.
About 200 attendees queued in Slade School’s dining hall after 8 pm to meet General Carlappa, the Indian High Commissioner to Australasia and New Zealand, during the old boys and girls reunion week. The event was attended by Alderman L. Diery, Deansgate officials, and St Catherine’s alumni.
OCR fragment shows numerous prize figures and strings interspersed with names such as Conan, Jon Dols, Igor, and Katti, plus scattered addresses and codes. The readable items resemble a chaotic prize draw or lottery-like record with many numeric sequences and scattered person names, but the fragment is highly garbled and lacks coherent narrative or a distinct event.
London dispatch reports experts testing high rate refuelling theory to explain wing data after Comet crashes. They plan to study the Italian tanker used by ground crews and examine the two airliners involved near Paris, with Rome awaiting further findings and officials seeking clarity.
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