U.s. Destroyer and Cargo Ship Founder in Gale
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—In one of the worst sea disasters in United States naval history, the United States destroyer…
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Floods & storms, 1942
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Tin Dredge Sinks in Flood
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Unprecedented floods have occurred in the Mount Garnet district, North Queensland. On one day the…
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LONDON, Thursday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.)—Russian artillery is raining a deluge of shells…
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NEW YORK, March 1.—A magnetic storm, apparently caused by giant sunspot, disrupted shortwave radio-telephone communications…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans' Attempt Over Ice to Storm Caucasus
LONDON, Monday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.): German stormtroopers who crossed the ice on the Sea of Azov and made a night attack on Yeisk fortress (Caucasian mainland) were beaten back after a…
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LONDON, Monday (Our Special Representative)—The Empire's gigantic air training scheme has now reached an embarrassing stage and Britain has virtually suspended recruiting to the R.A.F…
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LONDON. Saturday.—The Danube is in heavy flood after the phenomenal winter. Ten thousand people arc marooned in one…
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Flooded air-raid shelters, ruined vegetable and flower gardens, fruit and ornamental trees killed by salt water, backyards miniature lakes,…
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Top: An air-raid shelter built for three families which has been flooded by seepage in Denison-street, Carrington. Bottom: Another shelter in the same street also destroyed by the water…
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Subterranean water rather than seepage from dredge-works is believed by Public Works Department authorities to be responsible for the…
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SOFIA, March 15.—Seven persons are dead. and 12,000 have been evacuated from flooded Vidia. Efforts are going on to rescue 6000 people…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →38-Day Ordeal in Pacific Storms in Lifeboat
SUVA, March 18.—The story of a 2000-mile 38-day voyage through heavy gales in an open lifeboat, in the course of which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain at Chichester Maitland District Gets Good Fall
There had been prolific rain in the Chichester catchment area, the President of the Hunter District Water Board (Mr. C. G. Schroder)…
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This house in Henry-street, Tighe's Hill, was unroofed and had its fence blown down at the he light of the gale last week…
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Underground workings at Kent colliery were flooded to a depth of 2 feet at the week-end, causing the mine to be idle yesterday. Pumping…
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Not only for Australia, but for all the United Nations, the next three or four months will be critical. In them the Axis Powers…
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Operations at Elermore colliery, a small mine at Wallsend, have been held up because of flooding, owing to the rain. The management, it is…
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NEW YORK, March 26.—The Pittsburgh Astronomic Observatory announced to-day that an extremely large group of…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The widespread rain—which included many record registrations—in New South Wales last week, gave the metropolitan…
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