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Floods & storms, 1931

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Flood at Hankow Population Leaving Many Buildings Collapse Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 2

Owing to the flooding of the Yangtse River the population of Hankew, which numbers 777,000, is evacuting the city. The water has…

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Cricket Old Trafford Flooded Test Match May Be Abandoned London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1931 · page 6

The Old Trafford ground at Manchester is flooded owing to constant rain throughout the day. There how appears little hope of play tomorrow…

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Flood Waters (To the Editor, Hillston "Spectator.")

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1931 · page 2

Sir,—Kindly allow me a short space to point put the inconvenience country residents, living in the east and south east of Hillston, are subject to when…

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History of the 70 Flood. A Memory of the Dim and Distant Past. (From out Files of 1870). (Continued from Last Issue)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 2

Friday, 29[?] inst., 1870,—There is little more to record concerning what we may now term the late flood. The waters have fallen to 25…

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Floods Serious Situation in China Thirty Million Persons Affected SHANGHAI

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 1

SLOW death is engulfing the entire Hankow district The flood waters are continuing to create new high level records. It is…

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Floods in China Serious Situation 30,000,000 Persons Affected SHANGHAI

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 1

Slow death is engulfing the entire Hankow district. The flood waters are continuing to create new high level records. It is estimated that…

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Murray River Flood at Mannum. Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 1

The Murray River has broken its banks at Mannum, and hundreds as acres of land ste now under water. When the bank gave way, men on…

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Flood Warning

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 4

The Wagga Flood Warning Association hart advised the Municipal Council of its objects, which are to work in conjunction with the Gundagai…

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Murray Floods River Breaks Banks Serious Position at Mannum ADELAIDE

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 24 August 1931 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

A HUNDRED settlers have become homeless, following the collapse, early yesterday of the embank-merits that had protected the…

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History of the '70 Flood. A Memory of the Dim and Distant Past. (From our Files of 1870). (Continued from Last Issue) Reviewing the Damage

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 August 1931 · page 2

The news from other districts of the have wrought by what we may, fortunately, now call the late floods, reveal how widespread has been the…

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Murray Floods Adelaide

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 August 1931 · page 1

Damage estimated at thousand of pounds was done by the flood waters which broke the banks of Murray at Wall, Flat settlement yesterday…

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Murray Floods Damage at Wall Flat Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 August 1931 · page 5

Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was done by the flood waters which broke the banks of the Murry at Wall. Flot settlement today. A…

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Murray Floods Settlers Losses Now Total £120,000 ADELAIDE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1931 · page 2

The loss to settlors along the Murray River as a result of flood is estimated at more than £126,000. People are using rowing boats in the…

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Russian Goods English Markets Flooded LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

The extent to which Russian goods are entering England is revealed in the various market centres. At Wellingborough suits of good quality are…

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Flood Damage

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 1

The Engineer of the Carrathool Shire reports that the principal damage caused in his district by the Murrumbidgee River flood has taken…

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Murray Floods Damage at Mannum Dairy Farmers Supper Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 August 1931 · page 1

Nearly 120 dairy farmers between Mannum and Murray Bridge have been affected by the floods. It is estimated that the loss to each…

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Hankow Floods Menace of Disease Unburied Bodies Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 August 1931 · page 2

As the flood waters recede at Hankow the menace of disease, because of the unburied holders, increases. A company of Northumberland Fusiliers…

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Murray Floods Banks Break at Long Flat ADELAIDE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 September 1931 · page 1

Despite the night-long efforts of volunteers, the Murray river broke through the levees at Long Flat yesterday afternoon, and more than 3000…

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