Heavy Rain Causes Moonee Valley Postponement No Gallops
MELBOURNE, Monday.—So heavy was the rain in the metropolitan area during the night that all racecourse tracks were unsuitable for galloping…
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Raids on Germany Despite Thunderstorms
LONDON, Sunday.—Thunderstorms up to 15,000 feet made navigation difficult for R.A.F. pilots raiding Northern Germany lest night. The…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two holds of blazing copra were flooded by firemen to-day to save an overseas freighter. now in Sydney, from being gutted…
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LONDON, Tuesday. (A.A.P.).—It can now be revealed that a heat wave in Britain lasting a month, ended abruptly on July 12 with a violent storm…
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TOKYO, Tuesday. (A.A.P.).—In the Shizuoka prefecture, south-west of Tokyo, which bore the brunt of yesterday's typhoon, 26,000 homes were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Showground Buildings Badly Damaged Last Week’s Wind Storm Wrecks Grandstand Repairs Will Cost £100
The grandstand on the Gundagai Showground was severely damaged by a windstorm last week. The roof of the building…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.—A thunderstorm over Chungking yesterday ended the wont ordeal by air bombardment that the city has ever suffered,…
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SANTIAGO (Chile), Wednesday.—A severe storm which raged in Central Chile for seven days killed 40 persons and seriously disrupted…
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During thunderstorms last night heavy ruins fell on many parts of the catchment area. Many districts were thrown into darkness, and a soldier…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Although rain fell throughout the night and a storm caused several thousand pounds' worth of damage in Sydney, the…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—A Cairo General Headquarters communique states that a heavy dust storm restricted operations at Tobruk, though…
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On Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock, a severe windstorm passed over Junee, with clouds of dust from the west. An aeroplane was passing over slowly…
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LONDON, Friday.—British United Press reports from Moscow say that the destruction Of the Dnieper Dam flooded an area of 100 miles on both sides of the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—When lightning struck the main power line at Cabramatta during a fierce electrical storm to-night an area of 20 square…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War From Day to Day Vast Floods Halt Nazis Dnieper Bars Drive in South Soviet Hits Back
Fighting in Southern Russia has come to a dramatic slop with the successful evacuation by Marshal Budenny, of Dnepropetrovsk, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Severe Electrical Storm Vivid Lightning—Terrific Thunder Gundagai Again “Blacked-out”
A severe electrical storm struck Gundagai at 6.25 p.m. on Tuesday last! Vivid lightning was followed immediately by…
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Although there was fair to good feed in some districts, grass In most districts was very dry and was becoming scarce. This was stated the the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific Dust Storm in Broken Hill
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A dust storm Which yesterday swept Broken Hill. Menindle and Wilcannia districts was described by residents to-day as being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm at Whitton Many Buildings Unroofed Whitton
a wind storm or great violence raged along a narrow strip on the outskirts of whitton on Tuesday night, and did a considerable amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dry-weather Flooding Demonstration in Mulga St. Waste Water Shows Conditions After Storms Council Will Try to Rectify
THE occupants of the comparatively new homes in Mulga St. have had an unhappy experience in the past with…
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