Disastrous Floods in United States
NEW YORK, May 23.—At least 32 are dead and many others are believed to have been killed following the most disastrous series of Spring…
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Floods & storms, 1942
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Lull In The Storm
WHATEVER the results of the Kharkov offensive, it is obviously a prelude to mightier battles to come…
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ASSAM (Burma frontier), June 10.—To the accompaniment of a violent electrical storm, the monsoon broke with full force in the wild mountains…
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LONDON, June 15.—What may well prove to be one of the most important battles of the whole Libyan campaign is going on in the area south of Acroma, in the worst dust storm for weeks…
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WASHINGTON, June 15.—The battle of production was being won, but the battle of distribution had reached a…
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Greater Newcastle Council will be asked by the Works Committee to-night to spend £50 on installing a drainage system to…
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NEW YORK, June 17.—Karl Geiger, a German alien, was arrested in Brooklyn. He was wearing the full regalia of a German Bund Storm…
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LONDON, June 22.—The Parliamentary Secretary to the 'Ministry for War Transport (Mr. Noel Baker) said, in opening the first training…
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Wind and waves will not dislodge this American plane, on its way to holster the forces of America's allies. Welders are sealing to the deck, secure against ocean storms on the ship which will take it, and many more,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Workmen Killed, Many Injured Army Building Blown Down by Gale
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Two men were fatally injured and many others hurt to-day when a big timber-framed building being constructed for Army stores on reclaimed land in Racecourse-road, Flemington, was struck by a gale…
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PERTH, Wednesday.—Five men are missing from one of three fishing luggers which were in difficulties in a storm on the Western…
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SYDNEY.— Floods in northeastern Victoria and the Goulburn Valley have subsided slightly and no more damage is…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — The Weather Bureau has issued warnings of further floods in North-eastern Victoria and the Goulburn Valley…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP): More than 3,000,000 words a week was the colossal broadcast output of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Heavy to useful falls of rain were recorded generally over the State in the week ended July 8. Heaviest falls…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Mooroopna police this afternoon recovered the body of Patrick Lynch, labourer, the second victim of the…
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SYDNEY.—With most or the flooded rivers in the north-west and on the central western slopes and plains now subsidising, the…
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Several towns on the Namol. Macquarie and Castlereagh rivers are still under water, but floods on the upper reaches have abated…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—At Warren to-day the Macquarie River reached a height of 31ft. Warren police said tonight that the floodwaters were…
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SYDNEY: Water from the Namoi River, which broke its banks and flooded several towns lost week, is pouring into the…
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