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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

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Storms still lash S.E. Australia

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 November 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Dust storms, which swept-Victoria and South Australia today, rared in western NSW, Queensland, and…

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Britain has floods

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 November 1951 · page 14

LONDON, Tues.: Torrential rain, accompanied by strong [?]ales, flooded many parts of Britain today…

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Storms in U.S.

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 November 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wed.: Raging snowstorms and blizzards blanketed the Middle West in heavy snowdrifts yesterday…

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The Message of the Church Peace Amidst the Storms

The Observer · Friday 9 November 1951 · page 3

It is said that in Italy there is an art gallery in which amongst others there are two pictures side by side by…

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22 dead in Italian storms

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 November 1951 · page 22

MILAN, Fri.: Four are dead and 18 missing, believed dead, in Northern Italy after 72 hours of disastrous gales and…

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Fete Postponed : Storm Flattens Decorations

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 November 1951 · page 4

Decorations in readiness for the Adelyn fete lost night were flattened by a tropical downpour which struck Albury at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. The rain storm destroyed…

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Black-out-during severe storm

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 November 1951 · page 23

MELBOURNE, Fri.: While half heavy rain and thunder were lashing the outer suburbs this morning and show was-felling in the hills,…

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Flood of “Peace” Propaganda

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 November 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA, Fri.: The Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator O’Sullivan) said today that a considerable number of…

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23 Storm Deaths in Italy

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 November 1951 · page 9

MILAN, Sun.: At least 23 people were reported dead last night after three days of gales and rain storms in north Italy…

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Many Flood Deaths

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 November 1951 · page 15

LONDON, Tues.: Storms in southern Europe have caused widespread damage and scores of people have been drowned in…

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Italians pray as deluge nears

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 November 1951 · page 1

MILAN, Wed. (AAP): Millions; of Italians prayed today as a new deluge threatened to swell the deathroll in a week of floods and…

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M.P. fears flood of Jap. “junk”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 November 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.: Despite favored nation treatment at the United Nations and under the peace treaty, Japan was maintaining buccaneering trading practices,” Mr Haylen (Lab.,…

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90 Deaths in Italian Flood Disaster

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 November 1951 · page 1

ROME, Fri.: Deaths from floods and storms in North Italy this week total 90, but although the floodwaters of the river Po were still running amok fast night, the river level is now falling…

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Thousands [?] from flood threatened Ita[?] town

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 2

[?] of the 20,000 residents of Rovigo [?] while [?] drove through the flooded streets warning the [?] to wait [?] long, as waters of the Po River [?] still rising…

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Council Pay Periods Cause Storm Town Clerk Target for Censure But Motion Withdrawn

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 November 1951 · page 1

A DEPUTATION of Municipal employees who petitioned for change from fortnightly to weekly pay days at the meeting of the Council on Friday, caused a heated and noisy debate which led to the moving of a virtual…

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Many flood rescues in Italy

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 November 1951 · page 5

ROME, Tues.: Boats and rafts yesterday carried more than 2000 people to safety from the North Italian town of Adria, where…

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Floods in Italy Worsen

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 1

ROME, Wed.: New heavy rains brought floods and landslides to the Upper Po valley of northern Italy yesterday and further threatened an area where some 15,000 persons…

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Flood of Italians

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: More than one million Italians have applied for admission to Australia under the migration scheme…

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Flood victims in “Valley of Death” face new horrors

Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 3

ROME, Thurs: Many thousands of starving refugees clinging to trees and points of high ground in Italy’s flooded “Valley of Death” are facing new disasters from heavy rains far to the north. The raging Po. River has…

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Floods surge on in Italy

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 November 1951 · page 3

ROME, Fri: Rain-swollen floodwaters of the Po River have blasted new breaches in dykes and driven thousand more…

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