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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Further progress towards the capture of Waitavalo Plantation, an enemy strong post at the southern entrance of Gazeile Peninsula, New Britain, was made at the weekend, says an Army…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday: Heavy flood waters in the Burdekin at Sellheim are starting to swell the river at Inkerman and the water…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Tuesday: Another cyclone located by the Weather Bureau north of Willis Island has brought further flood[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—Deep flooding of the country west of Kustrin by the Oder and tributaries and artificially by the Germans opening the sluices of canals has halted the Russian move towards Berlin on the central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Sunday: Heavy rainfall and considerable damage resulted from a cyclone which has been raging along…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, SundayâA cyclone unroofed houses and tore trees up by the roots at Mossman. One ship is in distress in the Coral Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Monday: The cyclone in the Gulf of Carpentaria has apparently lost intensity for the time being, and this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Monday.—The Inkerman railway bridge which links Brisbane with Cairns has been badly damaged by the cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NORTH QUEENSLAND PORT, Thursday: With less than one day's oil left in her tanks an Allied merchantman reached a North Queensland port this morning after a nightmarish experience in the Coral Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—Thirteen survivors—five Europeans and eight natives—from an Allied merchantman which founded in a cyclone in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A graphic account of the harrowing experience of personnel of a vessel sunk in the Coral Sea on the night of March 16;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Monday: The Allied freighter which went down in the Coral Sea during the terrific cyclone on March 16 was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK. Wednesday: The Herald-Tribune correspondent at Washington says: The wildest flood of peace rumors to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Having laid waste so many countries in striving to achieve their dreams of conquest, the Germans are now getting a taste of their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two storms swept over the Tweed, accompanied by southeasterly squalls, on Saturday afternoon, and rain totalling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With its path from the aerodrome at Evans Head to Wood-burn marked by a trail of smashed buildings and broken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freak incidents of the cyclone were common. One of the strangest was that of a 6 x 6 inch verandah pole which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday: A violent storm which struck Sydney at the weekend blew at 65 miles an hour in gusts this morning and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WOODBURN, Sunday: Hitting the centre of Woodburn about 4 pm yesterday, a cyclone ripped a trail of havoc from which only a few private homes in the northern end of Woodburn escaped. The business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sunday Red Army Storm Troops are fighting through the streets of Vienna from the south and are now under two miles from the Town Hall, in the centre of the…
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