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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1941

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"Blitz" Resumed on London Heavy Rain of Bombs Four German Planes Shot Down London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 1

The full-scale "blitz" returned to London last night and this morning. The German radio promised "the biggest ever," and the opening of the…

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Storm at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 May 1941 · page 2

An electrical storm passed over Junee at 7 o'clock on Friday night. The lightning was severe and the thunder heavy. With the first flashes…

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Storm Upsets Recruiting

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 26 May 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Director-General of Recruiting, Major-General Lloyd, has not received detailed ligures of Australia's response to…

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Gale Damage in Sydney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 May 1941 · page 2

A 50 miles an hour gale, which struck Sydney and suburbs yesterday unroofed houses, blew down chimneys and high tension wires, and smashed…

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Red Cross Aids Flood Victims

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 7

The Red Cross, says a Washington message, announces that it is feeding and housing 1200 persons flooded from their homes at Carlsbad. New Mexico, by the raging…

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Queensland Floods Bridges Submerged at Gympie Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 2

Local flooding is expected in all South Coast Rivers following heavy rains during the last 48 hours. The Mary River at Gympie is in high…

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Australianalities Floods

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 3

"Where there's smoke there's fire," and where there's a stream there's a flood, sooner or later. In Australia, as elsewhere in the world, folks become…

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Cyclone Kills 5000

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 1

CALCUTTA: Five thousand are reported drowned during a cyclone which struck numerous villages on the Ganges Delta…

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Air Mail Storm Prevents Landing in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 4

Ansett Airways' twin-engined Lockheed passenger and airmail liner was unable to make its usual landing at Wagga airport yesterday afternoon. A…

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Air Mail Storm Prevents Landing in Wagga

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 June 1941 · page 2

Ansett Airways' twin-engined Lock, heed passenger and airmail liner was unable to make its usual landing at Wagga airport on Sunday afternoon…

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Anzacs in Action Machine-gun Post Taken by Storm Somewhere in Syria

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 June 1941 · page 1

The second day's penetration was uniformly successful except in Metulla sector where, after artillery shelling the Australians stormed a position…

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Burrinjuck Dam Any Flood Probability Premier Launches Inquiry Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 3

The Premier (Mr. M'Kell) announced to-night that the Government had asked Professor W. A. Miller, of the Faculty of Engineering in Sydney University, Mr. S. T…

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Burrinjuck Inquiry Flood Prevention Cost

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 4

The State Government has appointed a committee to inquire into the probability of floods at Burrinjuck Dam…

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Kesweh Held Indian and Colonial Troops Storm Heights London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 1

With the British forces in Syria to-day the Allies are holding Kesweh. where strong forces have strengthened the position by gaining control of the…

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Heavy Rain in Melbourne Munition Workers Flooded Out Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 2

Rainfalls were heavy throughout Victoria on Friday night and yesterday. Hundreds of munition workers living in caravans and tents near the…

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Australians Storm Forts in Face of Intense Fire Damascus

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 1

Australian troops played a prominent part in the fighting preceding the fall of Damascus. They were New South Wales veterans of Libya,…

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Magnetic Storms Interfere with Oversea Communications Cable Messages Delayed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 July 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY. Sunday.—Cable, beam and wireless transmission services to Australia and many other countries were seriously delayed by meteorological…

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Cable Messages Delayed by Magnetic Storms

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1941 · page 2

Cable, beam and wireless transmission services to Australia and many other countries were seriously delayed by meteorological…

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Magnetic Storms Interfere With Oversea Communications Cable Messages Delayed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 July 1941 · page 3

Cable, beam and wireless transmission services to Australia and many other countries were seriously delayed…

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The Latest (Second Edition) Syrian Campaign Fierce and Bitter Combat Victorians Storm Mountain Fastnesses "Worse Than Gallipoli." Says Anzac

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1941 · page 2

HAIFA. Monday.—Some of the fiercest and most bitter fighting in the Syrian campaign has taken place in recent days in the Jezzin sector,…

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