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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1916

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Butter From Government Storms

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1916 · page 4

Sydney, Monday.—On Saturday [?] [?] of butter were returned from the Government store to meet the country [?]…

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Record Storm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1916 · page 9

The [?] and [?] [?] of [?] [?] to Glen Innes [?] Wednesday and Thursday says Monday [?]…

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Advanced As If on Parade. Through Storm of Shot. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1916 · page 4

Reuter's correspondent says the most dramatic incident of Monday's fighting was the junction of the two British forces [?] Fricourt…

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The Western Front No Rest for the Kaiser. British Storm Great German Redoubt. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 10 July 1916 · page 4

Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in chief of the British forces in Framer says :-- The Leipsic redoubt, situated on a…

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No Respite. British Storm Village. London

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 11 July 1916 · page 4

General Haig in a communique slates: The Leipsig redoubt, situated in the Gorman salient, and which had been fortified to the utmost of enemy…

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A Severe Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 July 1916 · page 4

A severe storm swept over Adelaide and suburbs yesterday. Roofs were lifted off houses and verandahs wrecked. Telephone and electric wires were…

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Local Dredges Inundated. Cope's Creek Again in Flood

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 2

"I think she'll nearly come over again," was the comforting reply received from Ganger W. Gillespie, as he busily worked draining the…

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Bathurst Floods

The Inverell Times · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 5

Destructive floods have occurred in the Bathurst district, being the worst for years. A large area is submerged covering…

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Delville Wood the Storm Centre. British Resolutely Pushing Offensive. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 24 July 1916 · page 3

Reuter's correspondent at headquarters, on the western front, Says there 'in an impression that Tuesday's fighting was the heaviest since the…

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Half Pozieres Taken and Held. Australians Storm Difficult Positions. British Troops Help. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 July 1916 · page 3

A correspondent in the west describing the preliminaries at Pozieres says it was a day of severe fighting. The Australians took and now hold half…

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Showrers Flood

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1916 · page 4

MORIS, Wednesday. — Charles [?] [?] [?]…

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Interesting Items. Flood Waters Drown Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 31 July 1916 · page 6

During the recent heavy rains water flowod rapidly into Lake Cowal (Wyalong district), end between 500 and 6000 acres were submerged. One…

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Peace and Storm. Two Sides of Trench Life. Australian's Vivid Story From Trance

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 7 August 1916 · page 8

Signaller Cardew Duncan, who is a son of Mrs. Duncan, of Inverell, in a letter home from "somewhere in France," presents two sides of trench…

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The War. the Western Front. Hard and Bitter Struggle Continues. Pozieres Still the Storm Centre. London

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 2

Australian wounded officers from Pozieres agree that the Anzacs did what they liked in the week-end advances, losing slightly…

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Flood of Munitions. Britain's Mighty Fleet

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 August 1916 · page 8

Messrs. F. E. Roscoe, O. Fain, and A. Langdon, three Australian munition makers, who left Sydney to take up work in the factories of Messrs…

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Very Heavy Rains Flood Feared at Tamworth

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1916 · page 8

A cloud burst at Yass on Sunday night converted, the main street into a river. Many business places were flooded…

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Floods in the Country

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 6

Floods have been experienced at Yaes, Orange, and Temora. A cloudburst at Yass on Monday night converted the main street into a river…

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Gale Wrecks Zeppelin. London

The Inverell Times · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 2

The "Daily Express" correspondent at The Hague says a gale completely wrecked a Zeppelin at Terdenck in Belgium on Monday It foil 2000 feet…

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Heavy Floods Reported

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 2

From various quarters of the State reports came to hand on Monday of serious floods, following on the recent over-copious rains…

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By Telegraph. [Through Our Sydney Representatives.] Violent Gale

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 4

Sydney, Monday.—A violent squall, reaching the velocity of 60 miles per hour at Sydney Heads, swept over the harbor yesterday morning. The waters of the…

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