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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
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LONDON, January 4.—The Russians today captured the rail junction of Byelava Tserkov, thus striking a heavy blow at the main German defence north-west of the Dnieper Bend. The town, a key fortress 40 miles south-west of Kiev, was taken by storm after four…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—During a violent electrical storm which swept over Sydney late yesterday afternoon four trams anil a train were struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 12.—The Red Army in its vast winter campaign, made new advances today in Poland and White Russia, as well at in vital sectors of the great battle front in the western Ukraine. Sarni, an important railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, January 17—When Parliament reassembles shortly, the Government will meet a bombardment of questions and will face…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night at about 10 o'clock a thunderstorm at Mt. Gipps caused the creek in that area to run a fair banker. It was computed roughly by a party of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The Navy Department announced today that 22 Corsair planes out of a squadron of 23 were lost in a severe storm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.).— Reports reaching the New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) show that about 20 native houses were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although they had never been in Broken Hill before, Mr. N. Carolan, from Birdsville, and Mr. R. Russell, of Maree declared that they were no strangers to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE.—Two fishing dinghies containing six men were blown out to sea off Dromona by a sudden gale last night. A police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When flood waters threatened to overwhelm Te Whaiti, a small settlement in the King country, and drown a number of women and children, a gang of men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The flood of speculation regarding Finland's probable attitude to the Soviet peace terms and also the Russian reasons for making them public, continues…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—A tropical storm struck Sydney and suburbs this morning, causing considerable damage. Many houses were flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A two-storied house collapsed injuring a woman who was walking along a footpath in East Sydney, and shops at Rose Bay were flooded when a storm of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BROKEN Hill last night experienced one of its worst electrical storms. After threatening conditions late in the afternoon the storm broke from the west about 7 p.m. Vivid lightning lit up the sky, thunder rumbled, and then the rain came, but unfortunately it was only of a light nature…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday evening about 5.40 p.m. a slight fault, an aftermath of the previous night's electrical storm, developed in one of the synchronising leads to an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured when debris from a house which to wrecked during the storm on Monday fell on her, Mrs. Martha Wilson (70), of East Sydney, died in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This is the second article in the series of the transcontinental highways built for strategic heeds since the war began, says "South Australia Motor." There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The [?]ure of Pervomaisk, an important railway junction and strongpoint in the German defence on the middle reaches of the River Bug, means that the last of the German hedgehogs east from the Lower Bug have fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Once again the portion of the district requiring rain moat was unlucky when broken storms fell on on Monday night. It is reported that 140 points fell in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cooper's Crick has been in high flood for about three weeks and it is considered certain that the crossing at innamincka will not be negotiable by ground vehicles for another three months. This information was secured on…
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