Thunderstorm At Louth Some Remarkable Incidents
A remarkable thunderstorm, with severe lightning, struck Louth on a recent Thursday, and it was lucky that no one was injured. At about five o'clock Thursday evening…
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Floods & storms, 1945
102 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 6
Sydney Gets Cyclonic Winds And Heavy Rain
Sydney, April 8.—Sydney was subjected to a torrential downpour accompanied by cyclonic winds which reached a velocity of 65 miles an hour during yesterday and today. Five hundred electric light wire will need repairing, and a spokesman, for the City County…
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LONDON, April 8.—Russian troops today stormed the East Prussian stronghold of Konigsberg; also a big naval base on the Baltic Sea. They crashed through the outer fortification and captured the main railway station in the town. They forced the River Pregel, where they joined with troops attacking the city from the north-west…
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SYDNEY.—Drought[?] stricken areas of the Riverina and south-western slopes did not benefit from…
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Sydney, April 9.—All towns south of Nowra are isolated from telephone communication. Torrential rains falling since Saturday, accompanied by tornadic winds, have torn down telephone lines. An emergency system is operating to some towns but this is hopelessly…
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Sydney, April 10.—Flood conditions on the South Coast have subsided, said the acting State Meteorologist tonight. Police on the South Coast from Nowra…
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Sydney, April 11.—The flood which swept down the Moruya River on Monday caused damage estimated at more than £200,000 in the district…
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Last Saturday saw Ivanhoe suffer another blinding duststorm. It started blowing early in the morning and increased in violence throughout the day…
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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT STALAG 357, IN GERMANY.—Memories of grim battles fought by men of the A1F in the blistering heat of the Western Desert, on the muddy slopes of Mount Olympus, among the olive groves of Crete, and by the sea in Syria, came…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Invaders Come And Go: 15,000 Farmers Perish In Floods In Holland
HOLLAND and the people of Holland have seen Invaders come and invaders go. The invading Romans are forgotten. and not even the names are remembered of the invading German tribes. Vikings despoiled the country, and Spaniards robbed and tortured its people. The Holy…
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Last night the Comet was delayed because of flood waters along the line. It arrived here at 8.2 p.m. and the Adelaide train left at 8.45 p.m. Between Bogan Gate and Condobolin…
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Washington, May 10.—A flood of peace rumours has resulted in the State Department officially denying that any peace offer conditional or otherwise had…
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SYDNEY.—During premature dusk which enveloped a wide area of Sydney yesterday afternoon when a heavy thunderstorm broke over the…
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I SYDNEY.-An electric train was struck by lightning between Erskineville and Redfern about 1.30 a.m. today during the height of a violent…
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SYDNEY.—At the height of a storm which swept Sydney early this morning the Manly ferry Dee Why, moored at Manly wharf,…
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Sydney, May 16.—Housen were damaged, trees uprooted, small ships on the harbor damaged, and interruptions caused to electricity and telephone…
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Sydney, May 17.—A 42[?] launch with six young Sydney medical graduates aboard was wrecked in a gale which swept the coast in the early hours of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tokio Cannot Be Rebuilt 70 Miles An Hour Gale Puts Finishing Touch To Fire Bomb Raid
New York, May 27.—So badly has Tokio been damaged by American "fire bomb" raids, including Friday's assault, to which a 70 m.p.h. gale put the finishing touches by sweeping the raiders' fires over great areas of the capital, that the entire city will have to be…
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sydney, June 10.—A flood warning has been issued from the Sydney Weather Hureau for the Rich[?]. Tweed and Bellingen Rivers on the North Coast of…
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SYDNEY.—Torrential rains over the last 48 hours have given rise to serious flood dangers on the Far North coast of N.S.W. where the…
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