Holiday Resort Hit By Gale
WOY WOY.—The roofs of three houses were thrown some distance and smashed and scores of windows were broken when a…
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Floods & storms, 1944
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Complains Flood Water Blocked
Tarro Shire Engineer (Mr. Lindsay) said the secretary of the Hexham Butter Factory (Mr. J. Scarr) had complained of flood…
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SYDNEY—A freak 50 to 70-mile-an-hour gale which struck Sydney suddenly early this morning caused damage in widely separated…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Whipping up suddenly in the midst of a rain squall, a 50 to 70 miles an hour gale struck Sydney suburbs early this morning…
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Leaving the Ministry of Information this evening, I shared a taxi with an American woman war correspondent, who confided that she had just written a powerful piece for her home newspapers about "Britain's…
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GENERAL MacArthur personally pinned the Distinguished Service Medal, one of America's most coveted awards…
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LONDON Wednesday— Fearing a new Allied offensive from the Anzio Beachhead (Italy.) the…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Due to rain and thawing show, serious floods are likely in the Yarra Valley in the next 24 hours. Water already covers…
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SYDNEY.—The State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) to-day said that there were good prospects of rain on the central and south-eastern…
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NEW YORK, Monday.—Sentencing Murray Steir, chemist, to imprisonment up to three years for selling…
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BURMA FRONT, Wednesday.—Heavy rain, sign of the approaching monsoons, is pinning down the fighting in Burma around Imphal…
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A grant of £100 towards the cast of repairing flood damage to Narrowgut Road has been made to Morpeth council by the Minister…
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SYDNEY: "Continued heavy rain in some districts threatens to cause flood conditions alone the South Coast, Upper Murrumbidgee and Upper Snowy River areas," said the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) to-day…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Heavy seas lashed the coast last night and to-day, and damaged waterfront cottages…
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"I'll guarantee that if people who sorely needed domestic help had thought there was any possibility of getting it, there would…
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LONDON, Sunday.—A south-westerly wind blowing at half-gale force lashed Dover Straits yesterday, whipping up great…
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LONDON, June 5. A.A.P.—A south-westerly wind blowing at half-gale force lashed the Straits of Dover yesterday whipping up great,…
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LONDON, Wednesday: A flooded area, six miles long and two miles wide, a quarter of a mile inland, was seen by an Australian Spitfire pilot near an American landing on the Normandy coast…
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LONDON, June 11. A.A.P.—The Germans have deliberately flooded the area area around Carenton and Isigny, in the south-east shoulder of Cherbourg Peninsula. The water varies in depth from a few inches to seven feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese Troops Storm Myitkina
LONDON, Tuesday.—In Northern Burma. Chinese troops, under cover of mortar and artillery fire, have stormed a Japanese…
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