Storms Lash 2 Oceans, Japan
A hurricane in the Atlantic, a typhoon in the Pacific and floods in Japan caused many deaths and heavy damage at the week-end…
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Floods & storms, 1953
304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
Flood Scheme Report Soon
The report on the investigation of the Howe's Lagoon channel scheme is expected to go to the Minister for Public…
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ROME, Mon. (A.A.P.). — Violent summer storms have killed four men, injured 50 people and rendered more than 100 homeless in two days in north-eastern Italy…
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ROME, Aug. 24. A.A.P.—Four men have been killed, nearly 50 people injured and more than 100 are homeless…
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RANGOON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Heavy floods have destroyed the town of Shwegyin. 90 miles north of Rangoon, and 1000 people are missing. Four thousand of the…
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Everybody in authority was shelving responsibility for correcting flooding in streets at Maryville, Ald Jones told…
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RANGOON, Wed. (AAP) —Burmese Supreme Commander General New Win sent troops yesterday to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Storm In Chile Killed 50
SANTIAGO (Chile), Aug. 26. A.A.P.—The death toll in Chile's violent winter storm of the last week reached 50…
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RANGOON, Aug. 26. A.A.P.—Floods have destroyed about 50,000 tons of rice, worth about £1,500,000, that…
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The time had come to cease quibbling and achieve some definite action to stop the flooding of low-lying…
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CAIRO, Aug. 30. A.A.P.—Floodwaters from the Nile destroyed more than 300 houses in a village in upper…
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DALLAS (Texas), Sun. (A.A.P.) : Floods drove 4500 people from their home in Texas today. only a few months ago. Texas was fighting a…
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Westerly winds continued to blow at gale force in Newcastle today and…
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Winds up to 50 miles an hour were registered at Nobbys signal station yesterday…
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RABAT, Sept. 11. A.A.P.—Violent floods to-day swept away dams and bridges min North and East Morocco and…
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SYDNEY: Yachts in the Sydney-Noumea yacht race this morning were close hauled and battling with difficulty against heavy rain squalls and winds, about 280 miles north-east of Sydney. Latest report from the…
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DURBAN, Wed. (A.A.P.) —A cold sharp wind and heavy rain made training, conditions unpleasant when…
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SYDNEY: Battered by rough seas whipped up by a 46 m.p.h. easterly, yachts in the Sydney-Noumea race are struggling to the finishing line with sails torn and rigging damaged. Radio operators on the…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—At least three seamen are dead, a freighter has sunk and other ships are in trouble in the gale-lashed North Atlantic. The Liberian freighter…
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LONDON, Sept. 22. A.A.P.—The crew of the Liberian freighter, Greenville, were forced to abandon ship in a raging Atlantic gale…
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