The Floods. Effect of High Explosives
LONDON, Sunday.--"Eye-witness" reports that the Germans are apparently using electrically-worked pumps at [?] to drain the trenches. They attempted to…
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LONDON, Sunday.--"Eye-witness" reports that the Germans are apparently using electrically-worked pumps at [?] to drain the trenches. They attempted to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SUVA, January 6.--A storm, accompanied by hurricane gusts, visited portion of the islands on Christmas Eve. The weather had been unusually dry for five or six weeks, and the storm…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"Eye-witness" with the British Staff at the front says that the Germans are apparently using pumps, which are worked by electricity, at Lille to drain the trenches…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →When the soldiers fighting in Europe, settle down to tell their tales of war after peace is made, this winter campaign will make a strange and wonderful story. In to-day's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Eye-witness" has furnished a further despatch relating to the progress of events at the front. Under the date of Tuesday last he says that the general situation remains…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extraordinary rains are paralysing activity on tho western front. The rivers are overflowing, flooding the fields and roads, and embarrassing traffic. Tho people of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The latest Paris bulletin tells of a retirement by the Allied Forces on the Aisne and the loss of guns. The reverse was due to the inability to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The popular belief that an automobile is one of the safest places during a severe thunder storm seems to be a fallacy. The idea…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A storm has loosed mines on the Belgian coast in such numbers that the whole of the coastal waters are filled. The mines were evidently placed in position in expectation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A communique reports that the French have made some progress near Lombertxyde and and Becellatre. The Zouaves made a brilliant bayonot attack and took positions near the Arras-Lille…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The battle in Flanders is confined to ar[?] and air-craft. The fields are converted into lakes, and the trenches into deep ditches, the infantry being nuable to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →It is pitiful to note the destruction of towns villages, railroads, bridges, and tunnels, which the conflict of Europe has entailed, pictured in many of the war films arriving in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A storm has loosed mines on the Belgian Coast in such numbers that the whole of the coastal waters are filled. The mines were evidently placed in position in expectation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Times correspondent writing from Paris says:--"The fierce battle north-east of Soissons has ended in a temporary check for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Times publishes a graphic story of the French reverse at Soissons. Flood waters rather than German strategy were responsible. After winning important positions and capturing hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The River Seine is flooded as the result of heavy rains…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AMSTERDAM, Saturday.--For a distance of 500 more metres west of Ypres the ground has been Inundated,, with the results that the Belgians have been enabled lo evacuate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Perth (W.A.) message states:—"Heavy thunderstorms are reported throughout the State. They were specially heavy in the Murchison…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Heavy thunderstorms are reported throughout West Australia. They were specially heavy in the Murchison districts, where railway embankments were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrific storm over Be[?]ltress, near Scone resulting in damage to stock and fruit tree, while vegetables and corn crops were cut to pieces by hall stones, which were in some…
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