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Floods & storms, 1918

662 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 34

Enemy Plans. a Waiting the Storm. Winter Warfare. Patient Confidence. London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 February 1918 · page 5

Mr. Phillip Gibbs telegraphs to the "Daily Chronicle".--The battlefield is hushed before the storm. the enemy's guns burst into uproar here and…

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Before the Storm Lull in West What Will Foe Do? London, F[?]b. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1918 · page 7

Mr. Philip Gibbs writes: The battlefield is bushed before the storm, The enemy's guns burst [?]nto up[?]oar here and there for an hour or two, and our guns answer the…

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War's Next Great Phase. Pause Before the Storm. Much Speculation on Enemy's Plans. London, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 11 February 1918 · page 1

The [?] of the Germans under taking great offensive operations on the west front [?] early date in an endeavor to force a decision before the weight of…

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East African Floods London, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 11 February 1918 · page 5

A message from Capetown states that news from Lorenzo Marquez (Portuguese East Africa) announces that tremendous floods are being experienced. At Inhamban 30 inches of…

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Brighton Storm Victim. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 7

As a sequel to the recent storm at Brighton, the Coroner, Dr. Cole, to-day inquired into the cause of death of Gordon G. M'Lood, of Sydney, an unmarried man, 24 years of age, who was…

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A Demarcation Dispute. Aftermath of the Brighton Storm

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 5

A peculiar demarcation dispute has occurred in Victoria. As the result of the cyclonic storm at Brighton recently a number of houses were unroofed. In…

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Cattle From the Floods, Slaughtered fer Food in Queensland

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 5

The greater part of the meat sold recently in the Queensland state butchers shope in the Rockhampton district was from cattle rescued from the Hooded…

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Flood Adventures. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 7

In Little Gin Creek at Longreach yesterday afternoon five young girls—though none could swim—all jumped into the water for a bathe from an overbauging tree. They…

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Flooded Creeks. and Further Rains. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 7

Inspector Quinn, of Cairns, telegraphed to the Commissioner of Police that a resident of Edmonton, named Tim Hanlon, has been missing since January 26 from White Rock,…

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A Cyclone Story

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 7

Being a native of the Burdekin Delta, which is in the cyclone zone, I had the never-to-be-forgotton experience of living through Sigma and Leonta, the two cyclones with which the…

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The Brighton Cyclone : a Ruined Church

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 33

SEVERAL churches were damaged by the cyclone which swept over part of the Melbourne…

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Heavy Gale Causes Damage Adelaide

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 5

A heavy gale visited the eastern suburbs of Adelaide on Tuesday night, and played havoc with many gardens, uprooting large trees, breaking branches, ripping off gates,…

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Flood Films

Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 6

The first authentic mo[?] pictures of the terrible "Mackay disaster," which shows the effects on the northern city recent in-combination [?]…

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Gale in Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A heavy south-westerly gale, with clouds of dust, blew over Adelaide suburbs this morning. In some places the wind was 80 miles an hour. Fences,…

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The Mackay Cyclone. Destruction of Catholic Buildings

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 11

The disastrous cyclone that struck the coast of Queensland on Sunday, January 20, and continued all through the next day will long be remembered by the residents of…

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Work at Randwick. Gallops in a Gale

Evening News · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 5

Disagreeable conditions prevailed during the training operations at Randwick this morning A southerly gale was blowing most of the [?] and light showers of rain fell at intervale…

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Hunter in the Gale Slow Trip From Newcastle

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 6

When the steamer Hunter left Newcastle at 11.30 last night on her way to Sydney a moderate gale was blowing, and as soon as she made the open it became worse. The…

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Gale on the Coast. Rough Sea at the Heads

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 9

A southerly gale set in along the coast last evening. Jervis Bay advised a fresh southeast gale, with thick rain and rough sea, and Kiama a moderate south-south-east gale…

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Squally Weather. Wind 48 Miles an Hour. Gales and Rough Seas

Evening News · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 5

For the 14 hours [?] rain were [?]…

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