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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1916

5 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Terrific Storm. Town Flooded. Much Damage Done

Delegate Argus · Thursday 24 February 1916 · page 2

One of the most terrific storms in the history of Delegate burst over the town mid portions of the district on Monday evening…

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Heavy Rain at Dalgety Worst in a Half-century

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 6 March 1916 · page 3

Mr. G. W. Hedger, of Middle View, Dalgety writes under date 28th February On Thursday last at 5 p.m. we had one of the…

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Floods Will Assist

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 2

Russia's present purpose is not in trying to drive Germans from Courrand for the reason that before the innumerable…

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Heavy Rain Impedes Allies

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1916 · page 2

Genera1 Sir Douglas Haig reports that heavy rain impeded operations on the Ancre and Somme. The night was spent…

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Peace and Storm. Two Sides of Trench Life. Austaltan's Vivid Story From France

The Bombala Times · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 2

Signaller Cardew Duncan, who is a son of Mrs. Duncan, of Inverell, in a letter home from "somewhere in France," presents two sides of trench…

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