Calm Before Storm? Lull in West Night Movements of Troops German Gunfire Increases PARIS
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1939 · page 1
Military experts interpret the lull on the Western Front as the calm before the storm. They add that despite the German concentration of troops by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Storm Over Bengal"
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 October 1939 · page 4
The final screening of "Storm Over Bengal" will be presented at the Plaza Theatre to-night. A thrilling epic of the outposts of Empire, the film is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rhine Threatens to Flood Germans Basle
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 October 1939 · page 1
Main nag caused the Rhine to rise, threatening sections of the Siegfried Line. Flooding will be inevitable if the river rises…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electricity for Boree Creek Switching-on Ceremony Town Flooded with Light
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1939 · page 6
Thursday, October 12, will go down in the history of Boree Creek and district as a red-letter day for the community, because at 9 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Willimbong Shire Bequest for Grant Extensive Flood Damage Leeton
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 6
At the recent meeting of the Willimbong Shire Council the president (Councillor M. J. Gleeson) reported on the subject of an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Rain on Western Front Paris
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 2
Heavy rain is impeding operations on the Western Front. The River Rhine has flooded the Siegfried Line and water is licking the lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rhine in Flood Effect on Maginot and Siegfried Lines Paris
Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 4
Heavy rain is interfering with operations on the Western Front. The Rhine is flooding the Siegfried Line, the bank being two feet lower on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Western Front Rhine in Flood Germans in Trouble Artillery Active PARIS
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1939 · page 1
The Rhine was in high flood tonight and torrential rain held up operations on the greater part of the Western Front. The Germans…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Weather Warm and Pleasant in Wagga Followed by Heavy Rain
Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 October 1939 · page 2
Saturday was the hottest day so far this season in Wagga, with the maximum temperature of 83 degrees. It was not unpleasant,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thunderstorm at Junee
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1939 · page 2
Heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed over Junee in the early hours of Sunday morning. Sixty-two points were recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tarcutta Races To-morrows Meeting Abandoned Course Flooded
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1939 · page 6
Became of the heavy rain on Sunday flooding the racecourse the Tarcutta Turf Club has been compelled to abandon its Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Western Front Further Heavy Rain Autumn Offensive Unlikely Paris
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 October 1939 · page 2
A morning communique declares that there was no noteworthy activity on the Western Front during the night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather Storm Narrowly Misses Wagga Lightning, Hail, and Rain
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 4
Shortly before dusk yesterday evening a curious phenomenon was observed in the sky which caused residents of Wagga to rush out from their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain Near Junee
Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 4
Heavy rain fell a few miles west of Junee on Wednesday evening. Many farmers from Wallacetown, Yathella, Strathmore and Old Junee districts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leeton's Pipe Band Takes Cootamundra by Storm
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 31 October 1939 · page 3
LEETON'S Militia Pipe Band achieved the peak of its popularity on Wednesday last, during the afternoon town march of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S.O.S. From Steamer U.S. Cutters Rush to Save Lives Dramatic Race in Storm New York
Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 1
"S.O.S. Sighted submarine!"—then silence. From far off the Massachusetts coast came this bare radio call just…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinese Allegation 5,000,000 Homeless Through Deliberate Flooding Chungking
Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 3
The Chinese Government alleges that the Japanese rendered 5,000,000 persons homeless by cutting dykes in Hope[?] province to flood out guerrillas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weather Heavy Rain Wagga and District
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1939 · page 6
Wagga and district received a thorough soaking yesterday when heavy rain fell practically throughout the afternoon. Rain began to fall on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm at Coolamon
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1939 · page 6
Eighty points of rain were recorded in an hour at Coolamon yesterday, and about an Inch was recorded. throughout the day. High winds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Presbyterian Fete Largely Patronised Despite Heavy Rain
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 2
Arrangements to hold the annual fete in aid of St. John's Presbyterian Church in the park on the afternoon and evening of Saturday last had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →