Storm Damage at Lithgow Lithgow
A heavy storm caused extensive damage to vegetable gardens yesterday. In half an hour an inch of rain fell and hail cut its way through vegetables and…
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Floods & storms, 1940
271 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 14
Storm in Queensland Cricket Players Say Allowance Has Been Cancelled SYDNEY
Trouble has broken out between the Queensland Cricket Association and the Sheffield Shield players in Sydney. Claiming that the team should have left for home on Saturday night, or at least on Sunday, the controlling body has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Storm Communist Platform Eight Arrested in Domain Clash Mr. Thorby to Recommend Restriction of Activities Sydney
Members of the Second A.I.F. and Communists clashed again in Sydney Domain this afternoon. About 150 soldiers attempted to storm the platform of the Communist Party, but a strong body of police held them back,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Devastation in Turkey Floods Sweep Earthquake Areas LONDON, January 1
A new terror is sweeping Western Turkey, as the flood waters from the rivers in the Smyrna, Brusa, and Adrianople districts devastate the countryside…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm on Seizure of U.S. Mail Washington
The United States has formally protested to Britain against the seizure of American mail bound for Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Now Take Toll Hundreds Drown in Turkey (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 2
Floods in Western Turkey have proved more extensive than at first reported. It is still raining. Towns and villages are submerged over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain Falls in Melbourne Gales Follow Hot Weather MELBOURNE
Relief from the hot weather of the past four days came to Melbourne to-day when rain fell after northerly gales which brought thick clouds of dust. Gales of up…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Current Topics Scattered Thunderstorms
The following forecasts were issued at 9 o'clock last night for the ensuing 24 hours by the Commonwealth Divisional Meteorologist—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods in Spain and Portugal London, January 5
Serious floods are reported from Portugal and Spain. Telephonic communication ion between Lisbon and Madrid has been cut off…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Thunderstorm Likely
Indications of an approaching thunderstorm have been picked up on his instruments by Mr. Cyril Griffiths, of Bar Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cool Change Predicted Southerly Wind and Thunderstorm Sydney
The heat and humidity of to-day is likely to be relieved later, for Mr. Mares says that a cool southerly wind is advancing up the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Realm of Stamps German Stamps Still Flood World's Markets Despite Ban
Notwithstanding an announcement some time ago that export of stamps from Germany was forbidden because of the world in quantity lots every time a new series is released in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Killed in Tasmanian Gale Hobart
A large poplar tree blown down during yesterday's State-wide gale fatally injured Kenneth Tuttle, aged 8, at Glenorchy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cloudburst Near Tamworth Lines Washed Away Houses Flooded Tamworth
A cloudburst in the hills behind Tamworth this afternoon washed away the main Northern railway line in two places…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Troops to Flood France Ominous Signs of Real War Growing London
The present British Army in France, large as it is known to be, is "merely the advance-guard" of enormous forces which Britain intends to send across the Channel. "You will see column after column arriving and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Political Storm Japan Is Unabated London
That General Abes' Government is in a precarious position is emphasised by the Tokio correspondent of "The Times" and of the "Daily Telegraph."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Chamberlain Gives Storm Warnings London
The war in the first week of the year has been quiet, said Mr. Chamberlain in a speech to-day, but it was the quiet which came before a storm. What was happening on land and in the air was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Chamberlain to German People Must Accept Responsibility For War Allies Warned of Calm Before Storm (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 9
The German people must realise that the responsibility for the prolongation of this war and the suffering it might bring in the coming year was theirs, as well as that of the tyrants that stood over them, said the Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Plane Bogged in Far North Relief Party Held Up by Floods TULLY
When an aeroplane was landing on the mission beach yesterday afternoon to disembark Captain Faultain, who intended to cross the bay by motor-boat to Dunk…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Vast Areas Flooded Washaways on Darwin Line Anxiety for Mission Station Darwin
Floods caused by the recent torrential rain inundated large areas of land at South Darwin to-day. The floods are believed to be the…
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