Storms Hold Up Desert Advance
LONDON, Jan. 7.—A Cairo General Headquarters communique says that poor visibility and stormy weather severely hampered the activities of our mobile…
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Floods & storms, 1942
118 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 6
Scrap Aluminium Flood Begins
CANBERRA.—Municipal and shire councils have been flooded with pots and pans and other scrap containing aluminium sent to them by residents…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 8.—Twenty-eight people are dead and scores were hurt here in a cloud burst. The worst storm for 40 years, it lasted for 10 hours,…
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MADRID, Jan. 11.—French warships and other vessels rescued 80 survivors from the French liner Lamoriciere, which sank in a storm off…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—The east-west train which left Perth last Tuesday for Adelaide, and should have arrived on Thursday, reached…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Protected A.i.f. in Move to Front Line
SINGAPORE, Jan. 16.—The movement of the A.I.F. from their former positions to the front line in north-western Malaya without a casualty is one of the great stories of the war in this theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R.a.f. Rides Gale to Hit Convoy
LONDON, Monday. (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.).—Flying in a gale, R.A.F. torpedobombers scored hits on a big…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Worst Weather for Decade" Dust Storms and Rain in Libya
LONDON, Jan. 21.—"A blinding sandstorm which raged throughout the frontier districts of western Cyrenaica yesterday restricted our…
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MELBOURNE.—How an Important Allied convoy carrying troops, planes and war materials arriving at Singapore was saved by a heavy thunderstorm from a possible disastrous enemy air attack Is described In a report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Flood" of Help Promised Singapore Defenders
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A "flood" of help was promised by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) in a broadcast message to the defenders of Singapore to-night. "Big movements are under way," he said. "You will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japs Are Wasting No Move to Storm Singapore
SINGAPORE, Thursday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.): While Tokio is boasting that Singapore "faces imminent capture—with only 25,000 defenders left and the last few remaining…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.).—In five minutes Senate to-day completed Congressional action on the…
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LONDON, Feb, 6.—Snow has been falling for 12 hours in the Straits of Dover, with heavy seas and the worst gale for years…
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SYDNEY: "City basement shelters would flood if bombs burst watermains, and they would become death-traps as in…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Two drownings in Queensland coastal towns, the temporary isolation of part of Dalby, and big losses of sheep and…
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LONDON, Sunday (Our Special Representative): The storm which is breaking around Mr. Churchill's head has shown no signs of abating during the…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Widespread damage has been done by floods in the Burnett, Dawson and Condamine River areas…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A Gayndah message states that damage caused by the recent flood within a radius of five miles of Gayndah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Wrecks Two U.s. Ships: 189 Drowned
NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.).— With the loss of 188 lives the U.S. destroyer Truxtum (1193 tons) and the cargo vessel…
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Greater Newcastle Council last night appointed Mr. C. Gale Deputy Chief Warden. On January 28 the council accepted the resignation of…
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