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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
197 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 10
STORM DAMAGE.—With 100 feet of its how missing, the cruiser Pitts burg lies in Guam Harbor after travelling 500 miles from near Japan, where she was struck and damaged by a typhoon. A pilot who saw the damaged ship said it was the best job of camouflaging of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Sunday: Carribean storms have bared the hulks of hundreds of ships lost on the treacherous Diamond Shoals of Hatteras (North Carolina) in the past three centuries. Sand swept away is already drifting back and before long most of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Sunday.—With the invention by British scientists of a thunderstorm locater, air mishaps caused by aircraft flying through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mayor of Lismore (Alderman C. A. H. Dalziell) has thanked Newcastle branch of the Ironworkers' Association for a gift of £50 for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CHUNGKING, Sept. 3. A.A.P.— The worst floods in this area for 61 years have made 100,000 persons homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A forecast by Mr. Cyril Griffiths says that to-day will be fine and warm at first, with northerly to north-westerly winds. This will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sept.- 23. A.A.P.—A gale swept across Northern England, Scotland and Ireland yesterday, disrupting transport, blowing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MANILA, Monday.—The gale which has delayed 1300 Australian prisoners of war here, is not likely to abate before tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PARIS, Sunday: In Paris, a storm of criticism has arisen against the French High Court for its conduct of the trial of former Vichy Premier Pierre Laval on a charge of treachery. Resistance newspapers describe the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Heavy rain has fallen on the North Coast, but southern New South Wales, where light herbage is drying off, again missed out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MADRAS, Oct. 22. A.A.P.—Many thousands of people are homeless as a result of a cyclonic storm which swept the east coast of India…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Roy Bayliss Gale, of Hannell-street, Wickham, died on October 16 after a long illness. He was [?]. The body was buried in the Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday: A strange tropical whirlwind sent floating-mines swirling along the English east coast yesterday and emptied one seaside resort while a mine was tethered to a pier…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, October 24. A.A.P.—Two persons were killed, a third was seriously injured and heavy damage to property was caused by a violent storm which swept over the Channel and Britain. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday: All Central Europe is now threatened by the great 90-mile-an hour gale which had Southern England in a state of terror last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, October 25. A.A.P.—Many acres of the southern coast of Anglesey have been washed away by the high seas raised by the gale,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Friday.—The 80,000-ton liner Queen Mary was in peril off the Isle of Wight last night as 80-mile-an-hour gales whipped Britain for the fourth day. Thirty ships anchored in a bunch off the Goodwin sands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle has not had rain for 25 days. The last fall was 140 points on October 1. It is the longest rainless period for more, than four…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, October 26. A.A.P.— During the fourth day of the gale which has been raging over Britain, the sloop, H.M.S…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Oct. 28. A.A.P.—The gale has blown itself out in southern England, and ships are again passing up and down the Channel…
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