Floods Hamper Guerrillas
SINGAPORE, Sun.: Floods have restricted guerrilla activity in Malaya during the last ten days and some terrorist bands are…
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Cyclone Blows Out Sport
BRISBANE, Mori.: All sporting fixtures, including the second day of the Eagle Farm race meeting, were abandoned in Brisbane as…
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BRISBANE, Tues.: Moderate to flood rains are expected to sweep south-eastern Queensland for at least the next two days…
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LONDON, Mon.: Sixty mile an hour winds swept Britain yesterday and whipped up the worst storm experienced this winter in…
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SEATTLE, Mon.: A state of emergency was declared in Western Washington State last night as floods in Washington…
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HOBART, Toes. : A 70-mile-an-hour gale did £80,000 worth of damage to the hops and apple crop in the Huon valley…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: A violent thunderstorm over the Blue Mountains tonight cut off electricity from Lithgow to Dubbo for a period…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Houses were partly unroofed, trees uprooted, and electric light wires brought down when a violent storm whipped through bayside suburbs for several hours today. At Altana a ship laden…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: On their war to Euroa this afternoon the English cricketers were almost floodbound…
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Tail-end of the storm which pounded Melbourne and south-eastern Victoria during the week-end reached Albury and surrounding districts yesterday, when the heaviest falls of rain since last November were recorded. The rain broke a long dry spell which was punctuated by spells of exceptionally…
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Machinery for the replacement of boundary fencing destroyed by flood has been set up, with the co-operation of the manufacturers…
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NEW YORK, Tues: Claims totalling 1,288,333 dollars (£575,149) in damages have been filed by three small towns…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: The flood position at Traraigon in East Gippsland eased today and the majority of the 150…
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SOUTH KOREA, Fri.: American troops today stormed into Pyongyang, one of the main Communist strongpoints on the east-centrol front in Korea. The recapture of…
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LAUNCESTON, Sun: The worst hall and thunderstorm in 50 years swept across the Tamar Valley yesterday, ruining scores…
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MELBOURNE, MOIL: Further thunderstorms may interrupt play in the Fifth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground…
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LONDON, Mon.: The body of 43-year-old Miss Barbara Douglas, of Melbourne, was found in thick brushwood in…
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LONDON, Toes.: “It was a “sorry and shameful story” that for the first time in history the Royal Navy was being put…
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The severity of last Saturdayâs storm can be gauged by the fact that a car had its window broken with the size…
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BRISBANE, Mon.: Recent floods caused a £20,000 loss to Nicholas Bosnjak, 45, a Yugoslav, of Inglewood…
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