Courts Flooded Hard Courts Games Abandoned Toowoomba
Owing to heavy rain which flooded the courts, play in the Australian hard courts tennis championship was abandoned to-day…
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Floods & storms, 1939
216 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 11
Heavy Seas Gale At Yamba a Boisterous Night. Yamba
Heavy seas lashed the coast at Yamba last night, the breakers being right up to the Surf Club's shed on the beach, and the spray blowing up to Yamba…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Tasmania Waters Receding Road to North-west Covered Launceston
Although further rain fell in Northern Tasmania at the week-end the flood position is easier to-night. The South Esk and Meander Rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yarra Rises Floods in Melbourne Suburbs. Melbourne
Further heavy rain fell in the metropolitan area throughout the night causing flooding in the lowlying districts in the southern suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone Danger New York's Weakness Flooding of Subways
New Yorkers do not worry much about the weather (says an American writer). When a tropical hurricane struck Long Island and New England…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experts Differ Safety In A Storm What Should Motorists Do? London, August 5
What should a motorist do in a storm to ensure maximum safetyy? Should he accelerate, or reduce speed? The question of protecting the motorist from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Swollen Rivers Floods in Victoria Mixed Train Derailed Main Street Under Water- Melbourne
Swollen by heavy rains several Victorian rivers are in flood, and are threatening the surrounding country. Downpours damaged railway tracks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Settlers Marooned Big Floods in N.Z. Wellington (N.z:)
The biggest floods for 40 years have occurred in the Shannon and Levin districts and to-day there are many thousands of acres of land under water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Feared Tientsin Concessions Walls Of Sandbags Blockade Relaxed Tientsin
Protective walls of sandbags are hurriedly being built in the concessions as the result of the rapid rise of, flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tientsin Floods City In Darkness Electricity Supply Cut Off. London
The Tientsin floods have cut off the electricity and plunged the city into darkness, while the floodwaters have swamped the Japanese blockade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Victoria People Refuse To Leave Homes Police Perform Difficult Task. Melbourne
Although they run the risk of being drowned, police are experiencing great difficulty in persuading people to leave their, riverside homes in the flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tientsin Flood Thousands Are Missing 3,000,000 People Affected. Tientsin
Flood, starvation and epidemic threaten Tientsin. Already hundreds have been drowned in the rising flood waters and thousands are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tientsin Floods Waters Still Rising. Tientsin
The floods have become worse and the river waters have risen 13 feet above the lowest sections of the city. The Italians have declared martial law…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →River Over Banks Town Of Seymour Flooded! Walls of Sandbags. Melbourne
Bursting its banks at 5 a.m. to-day the Goulburn River poured into the town of Seymour. Shopkeepers piled up sandbags to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Floods Seymour In Danger Worst for Four Years. Melbourne
The flood position in parts of the State is the worst for four years, and at Seymour the position is particularly dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Riverina Floods Commencing To Fall Miles of Country Under Water. Sydney
The latest reports indicate a fall in the head waters of the Murrumbidgee and Murray floods. The flood crest is at Balranald, where many holdings are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tientsin Flood 1000 DEAD, 600,000 Homeless. Peiping
Wang Keh, Minister and head of the Provincial Government, after a tour of the flooded areas around Tientsin, told the press that at least a thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Citizens Fire On Storm Troopers Reported Danzig Incident. Warsaw
The Opposition newspaper, "Wieczor Warsawski," publishes a circumstantial report from Danzig that 20 storm troopers, who were appealing from a lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Driving in a Storm
People inside a sedan car are not exposed to danger during a thunder storm on account of the "Faraday Cage" effect of the body and chassis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Practice To-day Floodboat Contests
A practice row in floodboats will be held this afternoon by the members of the Grafton and South Grafton Water Brigades. The competition wiil not…
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