Serious Floods in Tasmania
BURNIE, Sun.: Floodwater, spilling from the swollen Mersey River, in north-western Tasmania, at the weekend, swamped…
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Floods Swamp Town
DUBRUGARH (Upper Assam), Wed.: Flood waters from the River Brahmaputra have swamped Dubrugarh, a town of…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A city building narrowly escaped being burnt to the ground tonight, a whole street was flooded and portion of the road surface badly damagedâall as the result of a car being diverted by a policeman…
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Unexpected warm weather early this week, followed by rain has caused an early thaw of snow on the Snowy Mountains…
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Floods on the Swampy Plains on the Mitta River below Tallangatta are abating, a Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission…
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HONG KONG, Fri.: Communist China might launch a new âaggressive ventureâ against rice producing countries in Asia to divert âgrowing domestic dissatisfactionâ at the Chinese food shortage, âChina Newsâ said today…
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SHANGHAI. Fri.: Mr. Clement Attlee and his Labor Party colleagues yesterday flew over some of the worst flood…
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TAIPEH (Formosa), Sun.: The Nationalist Chinese Premier (Mr. O. K. Yul) said today his Government would donate 10,000 tons…
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NEW DELHI, Mon.: Raging waters swept through vast areas of northern India yesterday, as the worst floods of the century…
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CALCUTTA, Tues. : Widespread floods in north-east India were estimated today to have killed about 2000 people and caused £30…
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After a day of gusty, drying winds on Wednesday, the border districts were drenched in torrential downpours which commenced after midnight. Although violent winds…
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The Hay Municipal Council was informed at its meeting on Tuesday, that the claim made by Mr. J. Eade, for work on the flood…
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BRISBANE, Sun.: Wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour lashed Brisbane today when a freak storm broke aver the city this…
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CALCUTTA, San. : India's mightiest river, the Brahmaputra, yesterday quickened its march on the doomed Assam tea…
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CALCUTTA. Mon.: The deputy Commissioner for the State of Assam. Mr. M. Sultan, last night announced, "The battle of the…
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LONDON, Wed.: Sir Charles Miles, Chairman of the India Tea Association, stated in London yesterday that there was no…
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THE proposed terms of settlement in the claims made on the Hay Municipal Council by W. Catlin and Jackson and Hurst, were accepted by the Hay Municipal Council at its meeting on Tuesday. Council is…
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CALCUTTA, Thurs.: India faced new flood threats last night, when the Damodar River, in West Bengal. swept over its banks and…
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WITH the start of the new Irrigation season, roads [?]ghout out Conargo Shire are once again being flooded irrigation water. Yesterday the Shire Engineer (Mr. W. H. Ware)…
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CALCUTTA, Mon.: More than 1500 people are fighting a round-the-clock battle to dismantle buildings in the path of the…
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