Storms Ravage Country Areas
Sydney—Blizzards on the Alps, hailstorms, and gale-force winds in country centres gave the State its stormiest night this year. At Coraki, in the north,…
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Floods & storms, 1951
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GEN. MacARTHUR Like Hurricane on Pacific "Storm Will Blow Itself Out"
Washington, April 17.—General MacArthur was represented as "a storm of hurricane intensity" blowing in from the Pacific in a speech by Attorney-General J. Howard McGrath, last night…
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New York, April 22.—No stenographic notes were taken when President Truman and General MacArthur conferred on Wake Island last October, Major General Courtney Whitney, said yesterday. He is MacArthur's military secretary and…
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Washington, April 25.—The Senate Armed Services Committee, inquiry into the dismissal of General MacArthur and related foreign policies will begin on…
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Hone Kong (AAP-Reuter), May 2.—Thousands of people in Kwantung Province, South China, are homeless as a result of the worst floods there since…
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Sydney, May 9.—Mr. W. M. Hughes today said that there were storms ahead which no nation could hope to escape. The veteran politician was speaking at…
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Wellington. N.Z. (AAP-Reuter). May 10.—One of the most violent electrical storms in the crew's experience was encountered by the Solent flying boat…
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Sydney—Gales and snow yesterday gave Victoria, Tasmania, and N.S.W. their coldest May Day forbears. Heavy snowfalls were…
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Sydney—A 15ft. high wall of water swept through farmlands in Rocky Creek Valley, 20 miles north-west of Lismore, this morning when a dam burst releasing…
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Perth.—Rain, which has fallen over about 600,000 square miles of Western Australia in…
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Singapore, Moy 27: There was discontent in the usually happy Norwegian passenger-freighter Hoegh Merchant as it wallowed its way along the Malayan coast from Australia to the United States via Europe…
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Sydney—A fierce squall which struck Sydney early today lifted the roof of an…
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Sydney.—Many houses were unroofed and vegetable gardens were flattened by wind and rain which swept the coastal districts during last night…
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C[?]er's Creek — which, it had been said, would not run again— has again baffled the experts and is running strongly…
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Sydney.—Storm warnings have been issued to N.S.W. shipping because of a cyclonic depression east of…
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Cooper's Crock — which, it had been said would not run again— has again baffled the expert and is running strongly…
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SYDNEY.—About 200 farms are covered by an inland "sea" of floodwater, 10 miles…
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Adelaide.—After a week-end rain of up to three inches in patchy areas, the reservoirs of the…
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Milwaukee, July 9.—Tornadic winds, heavy rain and hall smashed through Wisconsin during the week-end, causing extensive damage. In the northern…
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EFFECTS of heavy week-end rains in SA included the flooding of Hutt River at Clare, which forced about 30 people to evacuate their homes. Debris, carried down the swollen river, crashed into Gleeson's street bridge, damaging it…
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