Nazis Breach Zuider Zee Dutch Lowlands Flooded
LONDON, April 17. A.A.P.—The Germans in Northern Holland have turned the waters of the Zuider Zee into the lowlands…
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Floods & storms, 1945
197 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 10
Rains Flood Homes Built By Commission
SYDNEY,—The State Housing Commission's homes in Montague Avenue. Granville, according to the occupants, are a complete washout…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dyke Blown in Holland Floods Menace Amsterdam
LONDON, April 19. A.A.P.—The wholesale flooding of the Hook of Holland was begun yesterday when the Germans blew a 300…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood of Australian War Prisoners Arriving in Britain "Herald" Service
LONDON, April 22.—Australian prisoners of war continue to reach England from Germany in hundreds. Scores of prisoners are finding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Warning Was Given to Flooded Dutch
LONDON, Sunday.— There is nothing to indicate that the Germans gave 15,000 Dutch farmers any warning before they dynamited the great main dyke to the Zuider Zee. Air photographs today for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Theaters "Summer Storm"
"Summer Storm", opening at the Theatre Royal today is based on Anton Chekhov's "The Shooting Party," but the subtle dramatic atmosphere of the story is lost on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →26 Hours on Job in Cyclone
During a recent cyclonic storm on Bougainville, a party of Australian signallers worked for 26 hours without food or rest to restore telegraph…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australians Storm Jap Fortress on Tarakan Island
TARAKAN, Monday: Australia's Ninth Division has stormed and captured Tarakan Hill, Japanese fortress in the centre of the island's biggest town. ASSISTED by Dutch East Indies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Denton Destroyed After Injury On Ship In Gale
Paralysed when he got down in his box in the heavy storm during the trip from Sydney to Newcastle by boat this morning, the four year old gelding, Denton, had to be shot when the steamer arrived here…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Garages Unroofed When 70 m.p.h. Gale Struck Newcastle Today
RESULT OF HEAVY STORM damage caused to four garages in Scott Street, near Parnell Place, this morning, when a 70 miles an hour gale struck Newcastle. At right: Galvanised iron roofing from the garages which landed some distance away in a neighboring backyard. Mr. C. Flexman. who narrowly escaped injury, can be seen clearing away the debris. (See story page 5)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →70-Mile-an-hour Gale on Coast Sea Front Premises Are Damaged
A 70 miles an hour southerly gale this morning caused . damage to houses, garages, fences and shop awnings. Heavy seas lashed the waterfront. A steamer from Sydney with racehorses aboard had such a…
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Mr. Cyril Griffiths last night issued the following forecast for today: The cyclonic disturbance is moving away. There will be further showers…
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Two men suffered minor injuries, a coal stack was set on fire by broken electric wires, garages were unroofed, fences blown down and heavy seas were stirred up by the 60 miles an hour gale which swept Newcastle yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Believed Lost When Launch Founders Off Coast Collier Rescues Doctor After Long Ordeal In Storm
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Five young men, four of them doctors and one a medical student, are believed to have been drowned when the 40ft. launch in which they were returning from Catherine Hill Bay to Sydney foundered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage at Stockton Second Boat May Be Missing in Gale
Newcastle police are anxious to establish the identity of wreckage recovered from Stockton beach. It is not portion of the Robin May, lost with five men between Catherine Hill Bay and Sydney on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain On Mid-North Coast
SYDNEY.—Light to heavy rain in the last 24 hours missed drought areas in southern and south-western N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gale on Coast of Newcastle
Rising steadily since the early hours of this morning, the southeasterly wind readied its maximum velocity of 60 miles an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone, And Big Floods On North Coast: Trains Held-up
SYDNEY: Accompanied by torrential rain, a cyclone centred between Brisbane and Clarence Heads has been lashing the Far North Coast for 48 hours with unabated fury. TRAINS from Brisbane to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Warnings in North
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A flood warning was issued from the State Weather Bureau for the Richmond. Tweed and Bellinger Rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Day-long Gale in Newcastle Cyclone Slowly on Way Down Coast
The cyclone raging off the coast was gradually moving southwards, Mr. Cyril Griffiths, of Bar Beach, said last night…
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