Storm Troops Round Up Child Refugees
LONDON, July 26.—Children over eight are among the 15,000 to 18,000 refugees from Axis-conquored countries arrested in the biggest…
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Floods & storms, 1942
118 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 6
Hundreds Homeless in Indian Floods
NEW DELHI, Sunday (AAP): Hundreds of people lost their homes through the flooding of the River Jumna (northern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Lose Heavily, But Force New Papua Landing Helped By Storms; Fierce Allied Air Attacks
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday.—Weakened, but not stopped by persistent aerial attacks, Japanese troops landed at Milne Bay, in South-east Papua, before dawn yesterday morning. Our planes have already inflicted considerable loses on the landing party…
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CHUNGKING, Sunday: The most disastrous flood for a century has inundated 60,000 square miles in northern Anhwel…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—According to a special flood report issued by the Weather Bureau to-day, flood dangers in all northern and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Fire Shots and Storm House in Belfast
LONDON, Thursday.—Crouching behind lorries police fired 100 shots in quarter of an hour before they stormed a house in…
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A house was blown down during the strong gale which hit Newcastle district about eight o'clock last night. The house was nearing completion and was announced. It caught…
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Part of a house was blown down, roofs were lifted, the brick work of an overhead railway bridge badly damaged, and the electricity supply…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Heavily shaken by an electrical disturbance from clouds 7000ft. up, a Lancaster bomber plunged to within 400 feet of the sea before it could be controlled…
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While overhead transmission exists, there will be no entire immunity from electrical trouble during storms. This was made clear by the…
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NEW DELHI. Wednesday: The worst floods for 25 years have disrupted communications, held up traffic and caused widespread…
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Although the Peterson River has broken its banks in several places, the rise of the Hunter has been gradual and there seems to be little immediate danger of serious flooding in the Maitland district…
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Hundreds of acres of agricultural land were under water, lucerne fields disappeared temporarily and vegetable crops were destroyed at Phoenix Park, Morpeth district, by flood waters from the Paterson river, which broke its…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Persistent, heavy rain in numerous sections of the central and south coastal areas had increased the flood danger, the…
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Phoenix Park, Morpeth, as it appeared after the recent heavy rain. The house in the foreground is cut off by water feet deep…
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The flood condition of the Hunter River improved and the banked up waters of the Paterson and Williams Rivers were getting away satisfactorily this morning. At Hexham it was considered a hopeful sign that the waters from these…
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Flood scenes in the Morpeth district—(1) Boats were taken along roads that were several feet under waterto bring people to safety. The line of telegraph poles indicates the course of the road. (2) Farm houses were isolated. (3) and (4) A boat carrying food floated over fences and across fields to reach marooned families. (5) Thriving crops grew here —until the floodwater came…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Flooded at Lighgow
LITHGOW, Friday. — Commonwealth No. 3 colliery, an open cut coalmine, cannot be worked because it is flooded with water from recent rains. This…
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SYDNEY.—Flood waters are receding steadily, said the State Divisional Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) to-day. At Paterson they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flooded Potomac Menaces Washington
WASHINGTON. Friday.—President Roosevelt has asked the Army, the Navv and district of Columbia officials to take all…
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