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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1916

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The Weather. Rain Storms

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1916 · page 2

Although the maximum temperature at Wagga yesterday did not exceed [?] degrees the intense humidity considerably increased the oppressive…

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Thunderstorms

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1916 · page 2

On Saturday and yesterday Lockhart district was visited by thunderstorns. Rain began to fall in Lockhart about 4 p.m., and continued…

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Storms in Germany

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 8

Terrible storms visited Southern Germany. Zeppelin haugars at Friedrecbshafen, accommodating four big airships, were partly destroyed…

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Violent Storm

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon's rain storm was exceptionally heavy at the Junction, and for some distance along the Uranquity and Urans roads. Hardly…

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Severe Thunderstorms

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 3

The weather during the week, as a result of monsoonal conditions, has been unsettled, and light to heavy rain has fallen throughout the district. The…

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Storm at Lockhart. Lockhart

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1916 · page 5

Last evening Lockhart was visited by an extremely violent storm. From carly in the evening the town appeared to be in a vortex of…

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Disastrous Storm. Clarence District Visited. Heavy Damage Reported. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 February 1916 · page 3

A terrific storm passed over the whole of the River district last night, accompanied by a great downpour of [?]ain…

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Italy. Attacking Austrians. Fighting in Snow Storms. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1916 · page 2

Operations by the Italian armies against the Australians are impeded by bad weather and heavy snow storms. After a severe bombardment of the…

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THE 70 Flood. Three Lives Lost. Great Losses of Stock

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1916 · page 4

THERE are still some amongst us who have recollections of the dis-astrous flood of 1870, memories of which were recalled in an article…

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THE 70 Flood. Three Lives Lost. Great Losses of Stock. [Continued from last issue.]

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 8

About 4 o'clock this (Wednesday) morning the river, which had been hitherto increasing steadily in volume, began to rise with great…

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THE '70 Flood. Three Lives Lost. Great Losses of Stock, [Continued from last issue.]

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 4

TOWARDS afternoon the flood began visibly to abate, as was seen by the wet marks on the walls of the buildings that were surrounded. We…

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THE '70 Flood. Three Lives Lost. Great Losses of Stock. [Continued from last issue.]

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 8

AN immense quantity of bay, wheat and other produce must have been destroyed. At Mr. W. Jamieson's farm, South Gundagai, all the…

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Flood Season. Advance Delayed. Fighting in Galicia. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1916 · page 2

The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says that a big Russian advance is impossible at present. Floods will soon stop operations. For the…

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Verdun Deluge of Shells. German Offensive Resumed. Swathes of Men Slain. French Wearing Out Enemy. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 2

A Paris semi-official review says:— The German offensive, suspended since March 22, was resumed on Tuesday with redoubled violence. The enemy, in order to conceal his designs, deluged the…

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Yesterday's Storm

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1916 · page 2

The heavy rain yesterday afternoon had a most damaging effect on parts of the streets cut for the sewerage connections and in some places a…

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Eastern Front. Attacks Repulsed. Floods Restrict Operations. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1916 · page 2

A communique issued in Petrograd on Saturday says:—"We repulsed an enemy attack in the forest near Moeritza and annihilated an enemy detachment…

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Eastern Front. Floods at Dvinsk. Germans at Tarnopol Repulsed. Russian Successes in Armenia. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1916 · page 2

A Petrograd message states that the floods are still rising. We fired on the Germans south of Dvinsk as they evacuated their flooded trenches. We…

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Eastern Front. Flooded Out. Many Germans Drowned. Petrograd

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1916 · page 2

The "Novoc Vremya" states that a thaw flooded a wide expanse of country occupied by the Germans on the Baltic front, and scores were drowned…

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Baltic Front Flooded

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1916 · page 2

A thaw flooded a wide expanse of territory occupied by the Germans on the Baltic front. Scores were drowned…

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