Citizens Get Heavy Dust Storm
INSTEAD of the bright holiday weather which so many relied on, Broken Hill people were treated on Good Friday to a dust storm…
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Floods & storms, 1944
81 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 5
When Cooper's Creek Is in Flood
Cooner's Creek, pictured above, is a treat stream in flood time. It is an flood now, though at the moment is is not in high flood. It was about 13 to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burdon-flood Wedding
THERE was a large crowd at the Sydney station on Tuesday morning of last week to shower confetti and good wishes on Mr. and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stop Press Freak Gale Hits Sydney
SYDNEY.—A. freak gale hit Sydney carly today, causing great damage in many suburban areas. Wind reached a velocity of 70 miles an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Material Changes on Russian Front Present Lull Interpreted As Calm Before Storm LONDON, April 23
The Russian communique tonight stated that no material changes took place on the Russian front today. Last night Russian long-range bombers attacked the shale oil plants in Estonia, and all except one returned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Operations in Many Sectors Floods Making Rumanian Offensive Difficult LONDON, April 24
According to the Vichy radio the Berlin military spokesman says that local operations are now occurring in many sectors on the Russian front, but the German High Command is keeping fresh troops behind the front line, as the tasks assigned to them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assaults on Selected Targets Daylight Raid Smashes Great Dam To Flood Enemy Lines Facing 8th Anny LONDON, May 7
Continuing their accaults on fortress Europe, British and Italian based Allied airmen have struck further formidable blows against selected targets in enemy and enemy-occupied areas. The most spectacular of these attacks was the smashing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →White Cliff's Swept by Dust Storms
Early this week a dust storm swept the town and district, but luckily it was only of short duration. A sudden and sharp downpour of rain followed, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freak Storm Hits Sydney
SYDNEY.—A freakish electrical storm which hit Sydney last night caused property damage in the city and suburbs. Several buildings were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Station Home In Inland Sea When Diamantina Was in Flood
When the Diamantina River becomes flooded if floods in its wake many hundreds of square miles of land. This week at the Broken Hill office of Bottom and Clarke there was noticed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Story Of Innamincka Floods, Droughts and Cattle Production
Innamincka Station is computed to be one of the three biggest pastoral holdings in the Commonwealth. It has a long history behind it, and is one of the chief cattle producing stations. There are about 18,000 head of cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Isolate S. Coast Towns
SYDNEY.—The most severe floods for more than 10 years have resulted in the isolation since yesterday of Eurobodalla and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gale Over Channel
A gale with 60 mile per hour gusts was blowing over the Straits of Dover at midday, ripping up the sea into a mars of broken surf. Conditions were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russian Troops Storm and Take Minsk Nazis Lose Their Biggest Base; Way To Warsaw Open
LONDON, July 3.—The Russians today stormed and captured Minsk, capital of White Russia, and the biggest German base in that area. This great victory was announced tonight by Marshal Stalin in a special Order of the Day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hail Storm In Adelaide
ADELAIDE.—Adelaide awoke today to one of the most prolonged hail storms for years. Covering many suburbs the storm burst about 6.45…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hail And Floods In Adelaide
Adelaide, June 5.—A prolonged hailstorm which continued intermittently for nearly two hours early this morning flooded waterways, broke glass houses,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Lashed By Heavy Gale
SYDNEY.—Sandbag barriers had to be hastily constructed along the frontage of several cottages at Collaroy last night to prevent the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pinsk Taken By Storm After Reds Cross Two Rivers
LONDON, July 14.—Two more important German strong-holds have fallen before the Russian armies sweeping to the west into the heart of Poland. The capture of the strongpoints of Pinsk and Wolkowys was announced in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russian Offensive in Poland Six Powerful Armies Flooding Over Front Of 600 Miles
London, July 19.—In an Order of the Day Marshal Stalin announced that the Red Army had broken the deeply staggered German defence line in the Lwow sector, thus opening a new offensive in Southern Poland. In three days fighting on the Lwow sector the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russians Storm and Capture Narva, Estonia
LONDON, July 26.—The Russians today stormed and captured Narva, in Estonia, 10 miles from the Gulf of Finland. This new offensive on the Baltic front was announced today by Marshal Stalin…
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