Japanese Floods Killed 622
TOKYO, July 1. A.A.P.-Reuter. — The death roll in Japan's most disastrous floods of the century rose to 622…
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Floods & storms, 1953
304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 16
Dysentery In Japanese Flood Areas
TOKYO, July 2. A.A.P.— The Japanese Red Cross to-day rushed medical teams and supplies of drugs to the…
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As a preliminary to the construction of the Warkworth dam, the Hunter Valley Trust decided yesterday to ask for…
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TOKYO, July 12. A.A.P.—Reuter. —Casualties in Japan's floods are estimated at 684 dead and 207 injured,…
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IMPHAL (India), Mon. (A.A.P.)—Three breaches in the banks of the Imphal River have made about…
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TOKYO, July 19. A.A.P. — More than 6000 Japanese were reported dead or missing to-day in sudden, violent floods that swallowed whole villages…
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TOKIO, Tues. (A.A.P.-Reuter): With 70,000 already homeless through floods on Japan's main island of Honshu, floodwaters now threaten to engulf parts of Tokio…
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LONDON, July 22. A.A.P.—The men who conquered Mount Everest were beaten by flood waters in Britain…
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TOKYO, July 22. A.A.P.—The deathroll in the Honshu floods at the week-end was given to-day as 675 persons…
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Newcastle District R.S.L. Council last night decided to ask the Newcastle City Council what action had…
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TEHERAN, Wed. (AAP)—Two hundred and fifty people are missing in floods which swept the…
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Winter returned to Newcastle with a gale yesterday after a period of fine mild weather. The maximum temperature…
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LONDON, August 5. A.A.P.—A swimming race across the English channel by four men and four women, which was to…
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MELBOURNE: Farmers and their families in the Forrest district spent a night of terror last night when an artificial lake in the Otway Ranges burst its banks and sent thousands of…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Floodwaters on the upper reaches of the East Barwon River subsided to-day, leaving…
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CATANIA (Sicily).— More than 100 families were homeless to-day after storms had raged over this coastal town…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Slight flooding was reported in three Victorian centres to-night…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.)—The British Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill) faces a political storm over Britain's signature to a United Nations' warning that the Korean war may spread to China if the Communists break the truce…
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The engineer (Mr. J. W. Webb) told Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night that flooding of Dora Creek could not readily be prevented Heavy storms in the shire in the past 18 months…
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John Hicks, 45, a Samoan seaman in the New Zealand ship Korowai, was found dead in a stormwater channel near…
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