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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
91 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5
LONDON, August 24.—Kharkov, big German base in the Ukraine, was captured by the Russians by storm, a Moscow communique states. Soviet divisions broke into the city from the west, the north, and the east. Fierce…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Swimming the flooded Francisco River, an Australian militia unit has seized the airfield at Salamaua. Meanwhile Australian air-borne troops have made a spectacular 17 mile advance toward Lae and are in contact…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floodlit play centres for the use of youth organisations at night are among suggested post-war projects to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—Russian troops are trying to cross the broad Dnieper at two points, one only a mile above Kiev, according to Berlin radio. Five Red Army columns are advancing against Smolensk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—The heaviest rainstorm for years, with heavy hail, held up Sydney at peak traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—The total volume of water that fell in one hour on Sydney in yesterday's record thunderstorm is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A severe storm swept Newcastle yesterday. The city was drenched and low-lying suburbs were temporarily flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Friday.—While floods are slowing the Fifth Army on Italy's west coast, the Germans are fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The arrival of about 1590 bushels of beans from the North Coast, in addition to 400 bushels from the Port Macquarie district, caused an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A severe storm yesterday caused a blackout of railway stations between Hamilton and Fassifern and Hamilton and West Maitland. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A conference of councils and public bodies at West Maitland last night decided to urge the Federal and State Governments to make a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON: One of the greatest floods in the history of the North Coast is sweeping away buildings and drowning cattle around Corindi. Homeless people spent a night of terror in the open…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GRAFTON, Thursday.—The lowlying portion of the jetty at Woolgoolga, near Grafton, was submerged to a depth of three feet, and homes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The Japanese -controlled Manila radio reports that a typhoon and flood caused devastation in the city and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, November 19.—"If the Government believed that the country would accept its decision to release Mosley without question it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Country reports today indicate that damage to food supplies by heavy rain is not as serious as was at first feared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—In one of the greatest floods on the North-west tablelands, towns and homesteads have been isolated. Miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Emergency police squads were called out to quell a disturbance when hundreds of housewives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOWNSVILLE.—In five minutes a cyclonic storm ruined £27.500 worth of tobacco leaf at Emerald Creek. Marecba, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Monday.—Advancing through torrential rain, Australians have captured Kaligia,…
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