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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1914

148 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 8

British Fleet Encounter Gale

The Independent · Friday 25 September 1914 · page 4

The British fleet in the North Sea encountered a heavy gale on Thursday. The torpedo boat flotilla was buffeted about for 24 hours with the hatches battened down…

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An Indian Sand Storm

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 25 September 1914 · page 3

Since sunset it had been growing gradually hotter until at last when we finally settled down to bed after a few envious remarks, in which…

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Battle of Soissons. Great Storm Raging. Trenches Flooded and Soldiers Tortured. Armies Entrenching Like Ants. Von Kluck Advances on British Trenches. Repulsed But Tremendous. Slaughter. London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 25 September 1914 · page 6

A press correspondent, cabling from Chalons on Saturday says that when the great storm was raging at Sois sons on Thursday and Friday,…

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Terrific Gale on German Coast. Corpses of German Navalmen Washed Ashore. COPENILAGEN (Den.), Wed. Afternoon

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 1 October 1914 · page 2

The heaviest gale in living memory is sweeping Denmark and the German coast. Many bodies of German Jack lars have been washed ashore at Esbjerg…

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Great Gale in the North Sea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 October 1914 · page 25

It is believed that disaster has over-taken a German warship, or warships, during a storm which is now raging in the North Sea. A number of bodies of German…

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Snow and Floods

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 October 1914 · page 19

At Geneva it is reported that snow and floods have checked the operations of the opposing armies in Upper Alsace…

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[?] Now & Floods in Upper Alsace

The Independent · Friday 2 October 1914 · page 4

[?] Snow and floods have checked operations in Upper Alsace…

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Wireless Works Best During Storms at Sea

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 October 1914 · page 3

Mysterious us the transmission of wireless messages seems to the average lay mind, there are phases connected with wireless telegraphy which,…

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Lull Before the Storm Some Great News Imminent Violent Engagement on Aisne Favors Allies Russians Repulse Germans Repeatedly Austria Sourged With Cholera and War Kaiser Like Crown Prince Meets with Reverse. Germany Makes Supreme Effort to Face Russians ??•'J'??- a Half Millions Defend Cracow. [?] of aisne swings to allies. battle of endurance. Germans Growing Exhausted. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 October 1914 · page 2

According to the Paris Correspondent of "The Times," there is a continuance of the hope that success is approaching for the Allies in the longest battle in the…

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Complete German Defeat. Disorderly Retreat towards Russian Frontier. Russians' Great Scheme. Belgians Flood Antwerp Approaches Siege of Antwerp. Belgians Trump Card Flooding the Approaches London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 9 October 1914 · page 6

A number of German siege pieces, including one of the big nuns,have'been lost through the flooding of the approaches to Waclhem, one of the outer…

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Heavy German Reverse. Driven Back North of Arras Lose 12,000 Killed and Wounded Horrors of Antwerp Storm Graphically Told German Utter Disregard for Life Montenegrin Victory Over Austrians Kaiser's Blasphemous Proclamation "I Am God's Sword and His Representative." the Fall of Antwerp "Vision of Hell." Fearsome Panorama From the Cathedral Tower. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 October 1914 · page 2

The Belgians, who had been in trenches at Antwerp for four days, were worn out incapable of withstanding the attacks of large bodies of men, but they plukily…

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Germans Lose 30,000. Through Flooding of Country S.E. of Dunkirk. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 October 1914 · page 3

The Calais correspondent of the "Observer" states that the Allies forced the Germans to retire to Thielt. The Allies took as prisoners 1200 wounded and 700…

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LONDON, Sunday. Germans Flooded Out

The Independent · Friday 30 October 1914 · page 4

It is estimated the Germans lost [?]0,000 in consequence of the flooding [?] the country southeast of Dunkirk, [?]here 6000 were drowned and the…

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Country Flooded. Germans Lose 30,000

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 October 1914 · page 6

It is estimated the Germans lost 30,000 in consequence of the flooding of the country south-east of Dunkirk, where 5000 were drowned and the rest cut off…

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Hungary Flooded With Wound­ed Soldiers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 November 1914 · page 2

Telegrams have been received at Vicuna from Buda Pest statingg that the whole of Hungary in again flooded with wounded, showing the sanguinary character of the…

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Eastern War Theatre. the Russians Slaughter Germans. Fearsome Fight After Snow Storm. 20,000 Germans Killed in a Week

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 November 1914 · page 2

A cable from Petrograd, dated Tuesday, stated that details of the fight at Bakolarjuvo show that the Russians entrenched on high ground on the eastorn side of a…

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French Storm Trenches

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1914 · page 22

German artillery at Poelcappelle, near Roulers, on Wednesday night opened a heavy fire in the direction of Boesinghe. Under cover of this bombardment, the…

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Terrific Thunderstorm at Orange

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1914 · page 33

A terrific hail and thunderstorm broke over Orange at the end of last week. The wind blew strongly, enveloping the town in clouds of dust. This was followed by a…

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Terrific Hail Storm

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 2

A heavy hail storm passed over Coolamon, Harefield, Malebo and other parts of that district on Tuesday last which caused a lot of damage to the…

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A Remarkable Storm

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 2

A remarkable hail, rain, and wind storm passed over the Wagga district on Monday, which resulted in between two and three inched of rain being…

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