Played Grand Piano in Flood Waters
LONDON, March 23. A.A.P.—While the actress, Beatrice Lillie, has been holidaying in Florida, flood waters have been…
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Floods & storms, 1947
365 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 19
Thousands Rescued In English Floods
LONDON, March 23. A.A.P.—The Trent Valley is experiencing the worst floods in its history. The water between Newark and Gainsborough is 10 feet deep in places, and more than 3000…
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LONDON, Sunday. — Cattle and sheep losses in the floods will cost Britain more than £12,000,000, says the National Farmers' Union. Describing the disaster as the worst…
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LONDON, Tuesday. — Floods in Britain were a disaster of the first magnitude, the Minister for Agriculture…
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SYDNEY: More waterfront hold-ups are threatened by seamen waterfront and wool clerks. The Seamen's Union decided yesterday to stop the discharge or load…
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LONDON, Tuesday: More than 100,000 lb. of soap, 600 lb. of disinfectant, 2000 scrubbing brushes and 1000…
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TOWNSVILLE: Terrific weather, with gales and heavy rain, has grounded all planes engaged in the search from Townsville for three aircraft missing between Queensland airports and Darwin…
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BERLIN, March 26. A.A.P.—More than 20,000 Germans are fleeing from the Oder area into Berlin from the worst…
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LONDON, Thursday: Twelve hundred people forced by floods into the top floors of their homes in Selby (York-shire) have refused to quit and go to reception centres. Troops in "ducks" and assault…
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To-day is Boat Race Day. Latest photographs from London show the Thames halfway across the road on…
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LONDON, March 28. A.A.P.—The Mayor of Johannesburg has opened a fund for flood relief in Britain, says the Johannesburg correspondent…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Two parties returning to Cromarty, near Townsville, after another vain search for the R.A.A.F. Mosquito believed to have crashed in the mountains, were marooned by flood waters at…
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LONDON, Friday: The King is sending £1000 and the Queen £500 to the Flood Relief Fund, says Reuters…
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LONDON, Friday: Melvin Purvis, 24, survived after flood waters had carried him through Bridlington Town and across the…
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LONDON, March 31.—The second murder play specially written for the Church in Action campaign approved by the Bishop of Sheffield is…
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LONDON, March 31.—The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited the flooded Fenland area yesterday. The Duchess was pale and cold…
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SYDNEY: A group of farmers at Finley, near Tocumwal. on the southern border, are trucking 120 choice fat lambs to Sydney to…
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Floods are sweeping over south west Queensland for the second time this year. Fears of floods on the Clarence…
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Hundreds of troops were used to repair the gap in the River Ouse, Enland, through which a great volume of water poured on to rich agricultural land in the recent floods. Tanks were driven into the gap after being filled with ballast, the drivers swimming to safety as their charges sank. Tons of filled sandbags reinforces with steel netting were then dumped into the gap, and the breach…
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The Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department (Mr. Ford) has advised that consideration has been given the notes of the inquiry,…
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