Worst Dust Storms on Record Melbourne
The severest dust storms in living memory blacked-out Melbourne and Adelaide yesterday. In Melbourne gusts reached a velocity of 60 miles…
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Sand Storms Help Rommel To Withdraw LONDON, Thursday
Taking advantage of a heavy sandstorm, which continues to severely restrict visibility, the enemy is withdrawing from…
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The maximum temperature at Armidale to-day was 89 degrees, but humidity was high and conditions were unpleasant…
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Communications between Narrabri and Wee Waa were disrupted yesterday afternoon by one of the most severe cyclones…
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Communications between Narrabri and Wee Waa were disrupted on Thursday afternoon by one of the most severe cyclones experiences in…
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After an exceptionally warm night—66 degrees was the minimum registered—weather conditions remained steamy…
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A big, but very scattered thunderstorm occurred throughout the district on Wednesday afternoon. While 112 points fell at the Inverell Post Office…
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A terrific electrical storm broke over Uralla at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, and resulted in 69 points of rain…
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For many days now the skies have been dull and overcast and the apparently ceaseless rain has kept up its patter, patter, on the roofs of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storms Hamper Harvesting at Ben Lomond
The annual Flower Show ball was held on Friday night and considering present conditions, was very successful. The door takings totalled…
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The 21st of January is a day to be remembered, for two great storms met and the lightning flashed and the thunder roared. The rain came…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singapore Defenders Flood Floating Dock Partial Evacuation Artillery Activity Developing Chinese Advance to Burma Batavia Bombed Sumatra Attacked Sourabaya Again Assailed SINGAPORE
The great naval base on the north coast of Singapore Island has been partially evacuated and the King George V. floating dock flooded, says the British United Press…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Singapore Falls Churchill Sums Up "Battle Through The Storm 'Draw From Misfortune 'Vital Impulse of Victory' LONDON
SINGAPORE HAS FALLEN. This announcement was made in a broadcast to-night by the Prime Minister Mr. Churchill in which he painted a dismal picture of the Allied position in the Pacific. "The Mediterranean is closed" he said. "All our transports must go round the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday's News Air Crashes: Great Explosion: Aliens Interned: Queensland Floods
Captain Elwin Derek Crisp (40), and his co-pilot. Captain Bernard, were killed when W. R. Carptenter and Co.'s Lockheed plane Carmenia…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland Floods Five Persons Dead Hundreds Trapped BRISBANE
In addition to many thousands who have been left homeless live people lost their lives by drowning arid many others are feared…
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Floods, the worst in Queensland's history, have drowned five people and thousauds of sheep and cattle, and destroyed crops and thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Floods Dalby and Bundaberg Great Losses
Two men and an elderly woman were drowned, several houses and a sawmill building, were washed away, big stock losses have occurred, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Henry Lawson "Storm to Come" Prophetic Verses
Born in a tent at Grenfell in 1887, Henry Lawson, who died in 1922. summed up the nature of Australians when he said, "The fate of a nation is…
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Born in a tent at Grenfell in 1867, Henry Lawson, who died in 1922, summed up the nature of Australians when he said. "The fate of a nation is…
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Born in a tent at Grenfell in 1867, Henry Lawson, who died in 1922, summed up the nature of Australians when he said, "The fare of a nation is…
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