Mines Threaten Shipping Off Coast of Queensland Broke Away During Cyclone BRISBANE
Shipping off the north Queensland coast is threatened by sis British type electric mines adrift inside the Barrier Beef…
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Man Drowned; Youth Is Missing Big Floods In S.E. Queensland BRISBANE
One man has been drowned and a youth is missing, believed drowned, in flood waters which are swirling over wide areas in the south-east corner of Queensland, where heavy rains have isolated a number of towns and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Night Play Proposed Junior League Seeks Flood- Lit Sports Ground
Football fans may have the opportunity of following the [?] a night following decision by the Albury and Border Junior League on Friday night to apply for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →25 Die in Storms in North America New York
One of the most intense storm[?] this winter swept eastern Canada, lashed the north-eastern United States [?] threatened shipping along the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Rescues by Plane LAPAZ (Bolivia)
Fourteen United States. Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian rescue planes continue to [?] victims from flood-stricken Trinidad. Evacuation by air…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Storm Petrol Depot TAMWORTH
More than 50 fanners stormed the Australian Motorists’ Petrol depot yesterday demanding the immediate release of power kerosene, which,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Floods And Severe Cold In Britain Blizzard Sweeping Through South Wales 'Water Used Fighting Fires Freezes Into Icicles, LONDON
Sixty families in houses around the flood-filter beds of the Metropolitan Water Board awoke at 3 o'clock this morning to find water rushing into basements and ground floors. . A Thames official at Reading has reported that the Thames is out of the board's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →13 Flood and Gale Deaths; Thames 10 Miles Wide Police Use Boats to Patrol Streets in Some Towns LONDON
Hurricane and flood death roll in Britain in the past 24 hours has [?] to is. Several people were killed by falling trees. The Thames river at Windsor is now 10 miles wide and is still [?]ing. A report from the fan country, which is the worst flooded district in Britain, states that the situation is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Position More Critical Thames Still Rising LONDON
The flood situation in the fen country is officially reported to be more critical than yesterday. Farmers on Hadesam Fen near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Greatest Disaster For Reading In 300 Years” Mayor on Flood Damage in the City Swirling Waters Invade 30 of the 40 English Counties LONDON
Thousands more acres of fenland were flooded last night when the banks of the Great Ouse river were breached about 10 miles from Ely. Flying squads had been organised to rush to the new danger spots and buttress the banks with bags of clay. Every county in England and Wales, except in parts of Kent, is affected by snow and floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Rain Forecast: Round-Up Of Flood Position Situation Still Critical in Many Parts of Britain London
With more rain forecast, the situation this morning in the main flooded area was: THAMES VALLEY: Peak of the flood is believed to have been reached, but an appreciable fall is unlikely for the present. The situation at Reading has not improved and floods have spread to some districts, hitherto [?] The water has dropped two inches at Maidenhead. Army amphibians are still carrying food…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops Battle Floods Thames Falling Slightly London
Reinforcements of troops have been sent to southern Norfolk, the [?]est danger point of the ten floods, [?]ere hundreds of soldiers and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trapped Families Rescued England Still In Grip of Floods LONDON
England is still in the grip of floods, following the thaw, and today the Trent River was five feet deep at Gainsborough. More than…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Debris Causes Power Failure Big London Transport Hold-Up LONDON
Masses of grass twigs and other rubbish carried down the Thames from the flooded country clogged the cooling system of one of London’s…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Rescue English Flood Victims
Hundreds of soldiers bringing with them every sort of vehicle—from boats to heavy tanks—were called in to help in the rescue work in the flooded areas of Southernthe rescue of marooned families in the Maidenhead diswearing life jackets, launching their pontoon to go to England. Photo shows men of the Royal Engineers, triet of Berkshire, South England…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →20,000 Germans Flee From Floods London
Over 20,000 Germans are fleeing from the Oder river area into Berlin as the result of the worst floods in the last 150 years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Rescues in London
Many houses were flooded to a depth of several feet when the River Lea overflowed its banks at Clapton, London. Families were rescued through bedroom windows and boats were used to deliver food and other necessities to people still marooned. Photo shows : Rescuing a girl from the bedroom window of a flooded house at Clapton, London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain In Nth. Queensland BRISBANE
There has been further cyclonic rain in North Queensland. In the Gulf country Kurumba had 1370 points from storms this week, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Damage Exceeds £12 Million London
Sir Brasswall Smith, Lord Mayor of London, said in a broadcast in “which he asked for support in building a huge relief fund to meet the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man And Horse Drowned In Flooded Creek Torrential Downpour in Wagga District People Marooned In Houses; Deluge At Uranquinty
When his horse and wagonette overturned while he was attempting to cross the flooded Crooked Creek at Rowan, a few miles from Wagga, about 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, William Churche, aged 60 years, of Albury st., Wagga, was drowned. The body was recovered yesterday…
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