Flood Toll In Nepal Reaches 1000
KATMANDU (Nepal), September 1. A.A.P.âMore than 1000 people have died in floods and landslides in Nepal…
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Floods & storms, 1954
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Planes Relieve Flood Victims in Pakistan
DACCA (East Pakistan) (O.S.R.).—During the two weeks period ended Aug. 21, 21 United States Air…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — Corporal Harold Alexander Jory, 25, of Windsor, a Regular Army soldier, was…
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BRISBANE. — Wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour lashed Brisbane suburbs during a freak storm…
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CALCUTTA, September 5. A.A.P. — India's mightiest river, the Brahmaputra, to-day quickened its march on the…
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CALCUTTA, Mon. (A.A.P.): The raging flood of the Brahmaputra has forced the people of Assam to "beat a strategic retreat," Assam's Deputy State Commissioner (Mr. M. Saltan) said yesterday. His dramatic announce-…
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CALCUTTA, September 6. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Ten inches of rain fell in three hours at Surat yesterday, flooding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Hopes Pinned On Warkworth
Warkworth Dam was the only hope of any real flood protection on the Lower Hunter River, Mr. F. H. Brewster said yesterday. Mr. Brewster, Chairman…
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NEW DELHI, Sept. 12. A.A.P.—Floodwater in northern and north-eastern India has at last begun to recede…
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NEW DELHI: The Government of India has ordered storm-detecting radars to be installed at…
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The Government of India has ordered two storm-deetcting radars to be installed at principal airports…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baseball Under Floodlights Gala For Charity
A baseball match will be played for the first time under floodlights in Newcastle at the United Charities sports gala on Friday night. The gala, to be held at…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A former superintendent of the State Mines Control Authority charged with conspiracy to defraud had been charged with clerical work, a witness…
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BERLIN, Thurs. (A.A.P.) —Thousands of rats were drowned yesterday when cloudbursts flooded West…
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BOMBAY, Thurs. (AAP) —Indian film stars are parading the streets with begging bowls collecting…
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I am writing this at a small table beside the one small window which goes from floor to ceiling of the tiny attic room in a charming little Welsh cottage…
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Gales and mountainous seas are lashing the New South Wales coast from Kempsey to the Victorian border. A storm warning to shipping was issued by the…
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Cabins were wrecked, portholes shattered, and a fireman had his leg broken as…
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Mountainous seas pounded the coastline off Newcastle last night and this morning as the south-easterly gale raged at 50 miles an hour. Shipping was delayed entering and leaving the port. A cyclonic disturbance…
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A cyclone is hovering only 250 miles off the N.S.W. coast, the Sydney Weather Bureau said today. The cyclone was approxi-…
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