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Floods & storms, 1915

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Floods in the Hunter

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 May 1915 · page 4

Over seven inches of rein fell in the Hunter River district during last week. The river at West Maitland rose 22ft., and overflowed its banks at Porter's…

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Life Lost in the Storm Body Recovered

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 3

The body of the littlerboy Walter Dorrell—whose strange, disappearance that morning (at the edge of the stormwater drain near Lansdowne-street, Parramatta…

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Swimming the Hawaiians' Talk About Their Tour in Australia and N.Z. Manager Evans Lets Loose His Flood Gates of Rhetoric in Eulogising "Antipodean" Sportsmen

Referee · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 16

Mr. Francis Evans, who managed the Hawaiian team of swimmers on their tour of Australia and New Zealand last season, gave the "Sunday Advertiser" a very interesting…

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In Odd Moments. An odd moment is not necessarily a nod moment.s the Storm

The Australian Worker · Thursday 13 May 1915 · page 17

"What is there in life worth living for?" asked the Pessimist "For one thing," said the Poet, "there is the blue Sky."…

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Schooner in a Cyclone

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 11

A cyclonic, storm of great fury was mot by the little island schooner Joseph Sims, on her passage from the Gilbert Group. The vessel reached Sydney yesterday, and Captain…

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Destroyers in a Gale. Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 15 May 1915 · page 5

Commander Claude Cumberiege has submitted a report of the experience of H.M. A.S. destroyers Warrego, Parramatta, and Yarra during a cyclone off the coast of…

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German Opinion. the Storm Will Pass. Berlin, May 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 May 1915 · page 13

The newspapers express satisfaction at Signor Glolitti's attitude, find belleve that the Italian storm will now pass over…

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Storm of Shot. French Carry Positions "No Such Success Before."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 May 1915 · page 13

PARIS, Friday.--The French achieved a dashing success in the fighting north of Arras. The official report states that every house in Neuville St. Vanst was found…

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Fierce Fighting. French Success and British Pluck. America's Threat to Germany. the Gallant French Fight for a Hill. Great Bayonet Charges. Storm of Bullets Faced. Effective "Seventy-fives." Paris, Saturday Morning

Evening News · Saturday 15 May 1915 · page 1

An officer wounded north of Arras states that the troops on Sunday at sunrise received a warning to attack a hill with about of joy. The artillery battered the German frenches…

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Cyclone at Wagga. the Season's Prospects

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 May 1915 · page 8

WAGGA, Sunday.--At Wagga the total rainfall is 283 points, and it is still raining, with occasional heavy showers. Yesterday afternoon a cyclone passed over…

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Subsidence Ok Railway. Result of Heavy Rain. Culcairn

Evening News · Tuesday 18 May 1915 · page 3

A subsidence caused by the heavy rain occurred at Brocklesby, on the Culcairn-Corowa railway. In places it is twelve feet wide and four feet deep, and runs some distance…

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Destroyers in a Gale

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 18 May 1915 · page 3

Commander Claude Cumberlege has submitted a report of the experience of H.M.A.S. destroyers Warrego, Parramatta, and Yarra during a cyclone off the…

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Gale in South Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 May 1915 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Monday.--Gales began violently at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, and at times the wind attained almost tho velocity of a hurricane. There was minor damage along the…

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Australia's Navy at Sea. Destroyers in Cyclone. Praise for Sea-going Qualities. Battered But Safe

Evening News · Tuesday 18 May 1915 · page 4

In the early days of February last the seamanship of the Australian Navy was put sternly to the test in the South Pacific. Amid howling winds and mighty seas that swept…

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French Barque in a Storm. Newcastle

The Sun · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 5

Tho French barque Bretagne, 19 days out from Adelaide, which was coming hero to load coal for the West Coast, and was sighted off Norah Head yesterday in a disabled…

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Island Storms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 12

The steamer Makambo, belonging to Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., arrived from the New Hebride[?], via Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, yesterday. The vessel…

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Flooded with German Blood Battle of the San "Fiercest of the War." Vancouver

The Sun · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 5

The Petrograd correspondent of the London Daily News says that the battle of the San River is developing into, the fiercest of the war. Three million men are attacking and…

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Flood Reserve

The Land · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 9

A letter was received by Colo Shire Council from Freeman's Reach Progress Association, protesting against the flood reserve being locked by the lessee…

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Film Fancies a Cyclone of Laughs "Tillie's Punctured Romance" First Lap—the Elopement

Sunday Times · Sunday 30 May 1915 · page 16

In a cyclone of catastrophes and laughs, Charles Chaplin will reappear at the Crystal Palace to-morrow, when the first two-part episode of the big six-reel Keystone comedy,…

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German Chancellor Looses Floodgates of Hate Violent Outburst Against the Allies Made in the Reichstag "Italy's Treachery Will Be Written in Letters of Blood" "Not in Hatred, but in Holy Anger we Wage this War" AMSTERDAM, Saturday Morning

Sunday Times · Sunday 30 May 1915 · page 1

The German Chancellor, Herr Bethman-Hollweg, delivered a speech marked by violent outbursts against Italy in the Reichstag, which met again yesterday…

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