Work on Wreck Undone Gale Cost Over £200
Work on the Maianbar wreek at Nobbys Beach has been put back over a month by the cyclone which swept Newcastle…
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Floods & storms, 1940
271 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 14
Planes Search in Gale Launch Missing Off North Coast
GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Three men are missing in a launch off the North Coast. Big seas pounded the coast…
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THE KING DECORATES a woman auxiliary for bravery. She pulled an airman from out of a burning plane…
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WITH the announcement of the alliance between Japan and the Axis Powers, the policy which threatens the peace of the Pacific comes Into the open. Its implications go much further than the Axis desire to keep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FISHING notes Gale Stirs Up Beaches & Rivers
Stirred up by the gale early this week, beaches and rivers should shortly provide better sport for fishermen…
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A south-wester to-day drove a new batch of British barrage balloons to Sweden. Planes shot down some and…
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A howling gale over the Channel, with torrents of rain and very rough seas kept German raiders away from England to-day except for odd planes, which sneaked in above the heavy cloud blanket and dropped bombs here and there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A.I.F. in Egypt Lashed by Fierce Storm Cairo
The fiercest storm that most of the Australian troops had ever seen lashed their camp yesterday evening. Rain flooded the mess huts and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.F. Makes 'King Hit' on Krupp's Works Gale Didn't Stop Bombers Building Were Torn to Pieces More Devastation Caused Among Ruhr Plants London
Groping their way through great banks of low clouds and fighting fierce electrical storms, R.A.F. bombers last night carried out one of the most devastating raids yet made on armament works and oil storage plants in the Ruhr. In a lightning attack, two tons of high-explosive bombs were dropped on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Barrage Balloons Swept Away by Gale
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7. A.A.P.—A south-wester yesterday drove a new batch of British barrage balloons to Sweden, Planes shot down some, and others…
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LONDON, Oct. 7.—Oil storage plants in the Ruhr, the Krupp armament factory at Essen, and docks at Rotterdam, Amsterdam…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Mortal Storm"' at Herbert's
Based on Phyllis Bottome's powerful novel of two lovers and a family caught in the toils of a hate which startled the world. "The Mortal Storm"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gale Hits Lake Fleet
A gale played havoc with Lake Macquarie Yacht Club's race yesterday afternoon. The craft sailed home under jury rig after sails had been ripped and spars broken…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale's Havoc on Lake Three Persons Rescued Military Tents Blown Down
A gale which reached a velocity estimated at 70 miles an hour at its height played havoc with boats on Lake Macquarie yesterday…
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BARCELONA, October 20. A.A.P.—Four hundred persons are known to have perished in great floods in the province of Gerona, which followed heavy rainfalls…
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HARCELONA, Oct, 21, A.A.P.—The flood situation in Genoa, caused by torrential rains in the Pyrences, has improved slightly, Catalonian rivers are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Drowned in Gold Mine Flooding
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Sir Aslatic workers lost their lives when the Raub Hole, a section of the Raub Australian Goldmining Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Yachts Damaged in Gale
Yachts returning from Belmont Club's week-end cruise yesterday met a heavy gale and were compelled to stand off the moorings for four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm-water Channel Bridges Conference Is Suggested
Claiming that, while the Greater Newcastle Council. Water Board, Main Roads Board, and Department of Road Transport were arguing whose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Desert Storm Lashes A.I.F. in Egypt Cairo
The Australian troops in the past two days have learned what a Western Desert dust storm really means. It was the most savage spectacle most of the men had ever seen. As one private told them, "It…
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