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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1918

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Heavy Rain Continues 5 1/2 Inches Recorded

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 July 1918 · page 5

To-day's forecast for the Newcastle district is as follows:— Unsettled. Rain continuing, with further heavy showers. associated with hall, chiefly…

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Storm Clouds Gathering LONDON, Thursday night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 1

The correspondent of "The Times" at Amsterdam says that the Berlin "Tageblatt" says that in an endeavor to suppress brigandage and anti-Germanism in Poland, the…

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Storm and Snow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1918 · page 9

Another series of storms have crossed the southern parts of New Zealand. It Wellington there was a suggestion of snow, a thing which has not occurred for a great many…

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Storm of Shells Then the Garden Country

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 August 1918 · page 4

Sgt.-Mjr. Scott Holland, son of the town clerk, has written to his father an interesting letter from No. 1 War Hospital, Exeter, Devonshire, under date June 17:—…

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Crossing the Ancre Why Germans Retired River Swollen By Floods LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 August 1918 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters, telegraphing last night, says: "Although the German withdrawal near Albert should not be exaggerated, it has been…

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Greta Police Court. Tuesday, August 13. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1918 · page 7

Prescills, Reed, licenses of the Sportsman's Arms Hotel, was charged with allowing Augustine Wm. M' Mohan on her premises during prohibited hours. The case was dismissed…

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Storm-tossed Russia People Terrorised London, Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 August 1918 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Archangel telegraphed that reliable, authorities state that the Bolshevik Government is maintained by Lett battalions and Red Guards. It is limited…

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Gale in Newcastle. Boisterous Coastal Conditions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 8

A strong southerly gale blew at Newcastle yesterday, with fierce rain squalls and the sea was very rough. The wind [?]ecred at eight o'clock at night to…

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Our Sydney Letter. Suits and Stockings.—forcing the Reluctant.—one Big Union.—the New Meat Prices.—the State As a Landlord.—the Future Deluge.—our Great Public Debt.—the New Postage. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 September 1918 · page 4

The chief difficulty in getting views, unless on the weather, is more or less the result of the general position. In just one word society seems to have resolved…

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Leinster Tragedy Awful Scenes in Gale Women and Children Lost LONDON, Sunday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 October 1918 · page 5

A message from Holyhead reports that survivors of the irish mailboat Leinster state that the terrible force of the explosions darkened the sky. The debris of…

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Fatal Storm Missing Boating Parties Big Bush Fires Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 October 1918 · page 5

A windstorm which attained a velocity of 52 miles an hour, laden with hot winds, swept over the city and suburbs, and the outskirts of the…

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German Cruelty French Women As Slaves Valenciennes Flooded LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 November 1918 · page 1

Mr. Perry Robinson writes that before evacuating Valenciennes the Germans opened the canal sluices and flooded the cellars of the poorer…

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Mutterings of the Storm Germany in Her Death Throes. Visitor Says Revolution Inevitable London, Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 November 1918 · page 1

Reports of increasing dissension, mutterings of revolution, are popular disorders in Germany, are being received simultaneousty…

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Storm Breaks in Germany Fleet Seized by Revolutionaries General Strike Begun Artillery Battle in Hamburg Streets (Urgent Message) LONDON, Thursday, 11 p.m

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 November 1918 · page 1

Revolutionaries control the warships at Kiel. They also control Kiel Castle, and a great part of Schleswig. The red flag and red cockades have been raised. Herr Haussmann is intermediating…

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Storms of Sinai

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 November 1918 · page 8

Watching an abortive thunderstorm the other evening seemed to turn a page in my memory. The foreground of little redbrick houses and dull, smoky trees in…

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Storm Clouds Gather Thundering in Spain King Alfonso Attacked LONDON, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 November 1918 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent at Madrid telegraphs that there is some unrest in the capital and at Barcelona. Stromy scenes occurred in the…

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After the Storm Germany Quietening Suppression of Terrorism London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 November 1918 · page 1

German conditions are so orderly that it is clear that either the soldiers are pronouncedly moderate or are supporting the Moderates view of the…

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Quebec Flooded Vancouver

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 November 1918 · page 1

A message from Quebec, relating to the tidal wave which swept the coast of Newfoundland, states that the high tide has done £20,000 worth of…

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Warden's Court. Thursday, November 21. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, Warden.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 November 1918 · page 3

An application was made by the Scottish-Australian Mining Company, Limited, for suspension of labour conditions in respect of Lambton Colliery, B Pit, mining…

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Damming the Flood Bolshevist Murders London, Tuesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 December 1918 · page 5

A message from Berlin states that if a few British light cruisers, with a small landing force could reach Royal they could dam the Bolshevist flood…

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