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Floods & storms, 1924

1,078 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 54

Laughed at Them Burness Beats All in the Dunlop Cycling Semi-final Some Stirring Finishes: Flood Kides Well for Marrickville

Referee · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 15

Cecil Burness (Enfield-Burwood) and A.C. Flood (Marrickville) were mainly responsible for the victories of their…

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Disastrous Floods Threaten Tientsin Precautions To Save The Town -- Cutting a Dyke -- Villages Will Be Swamped

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 1

TIENTSIN, July 15. -- Disastrous floods, caused by abnormal rains in the hinterland, are threatening Tientsin…

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The "Good Roads" Campaign Cabinet to Consider Scheme a Flood of Letters

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 6

The State Cabinet is to consider the scheme suggested by "The Daily Telegraph" in its "Good Roads" campaign. The Chief Secretary (Mr. Oakes) made an…

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Flood Waters Threaten Tientsin Dyke to Be Cut Shanghai, July 15

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 7

Disastrous floods, caused by abnormal rains in the hinterland, are threatening Tientsin. Experts have advocated the cutting…

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Ruinous Floods in North China Houses Washed Away -- Railway Traffic Held Up No Great Loss of Life

The Labor Daily · Thursday 17 July 1924 · page 3

PEKING, July 15. -- Almost continuous rain, which has lasted over thirteen days, is causing dangerous floods in Northern China…

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Serious Floods Chinese Damage Thousand Lives Lost Pekin, July 15

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 July 1924 · page 5

Prolonged rains have caused swollen rivers to flood the provinces of Honan, Honan, Anbui, and Kiangsi, devastating hundreds of villages and causing…

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Flood of Questions Alleged Undesirables

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 July 1924 · page 6

Mr. Hoskins aroused indignation on the part of a section of the Opposition when he asked the Chief Secretary (Mr. Oakes) if he had noticed a newspaper…

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The Approaching Storm

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 16

'Languid" Lang the languisher— "These cows are leaving nothing to me, but a wet skin."…

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Giants of the Wheel Burness and Flood, Cycling Champions : What They Mean to a Team

Arrow · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 6

The powerful influence of a first-class rider in a team's contest was never better exemplified that when Cecil…

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Floods in China Tientsin in Danger Great Loss of Life

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 2

Serious [?]oods have swept through central China, following prolonging [?] that caused the rivers in over-flow their banks. In the provinces of…

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Caused by a Cyclone

The World's News · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 13

Strangest of railway wrecks, surely, was this disaster in India, in which neither collision, defective equipment, nor any of the usual causes kfigured at all. A cyclons swept down on the train as it was crossing a bridge near Barcilly, and blew five coaches off the track into the river below. Fifty people were killed, and many injured. Many dead were found locked in the cars, two of which were completelysubmerged…

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The Koondooloo. Arriving on Tuesday. Encounter with Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 17

Having enc[?]tered what is described as the tall end of a typhoon soon after leaving Singapore on her long voyage from [?]th, the new vehicle steamer Kondooloo, of the…

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Floods in China Hankow Threatened SHANGHAI, Friday Evening

Evening News · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 1

Reuter's Tientsin correspondent says the flood waters are recording, and the authorities are optimistic. It is thought that all danger to Tientsin is over…

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"Flooded with Rubbish" How Cattle Prices Suffer in Sydney Market

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 July 1924 · page 6

Cattle prices rose sharply at Home-bush on Thursday, due chiefly to a slackening off in supplies. Truck orders seem to indicate that cattle…

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New Treaty Enforcing Sanctions Storm in Berlin London, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 21 July 1924 · page 1

It is understood that the special committee of the Allied Conference on Reparations has arrived at a unanimous…

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No Rain But a Flood Harvest for Plumbers BATHURST

Evening News · Monday 21 July 1924 · page 8

bathurst is experiencing a unique flood. Although rain has not fallon for weaks, many homes have been flooded and considerable…

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Hankow Is Threatened with a Flood

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 July 1924 · page 4

TIENTSIN, July 20.--The flood waters are receding. The authorities are optimistic. It is thought that danger to Tientsin is over…

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A Great Storm

Evening News · Tuesday 22 July 1924 · page 4

The most severe thunderstorm yet experienced occurred last night (our Nowra correspondent advises). The only break from the night-long…

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Again Menaced Floods at Tientsin SHANGHAI, Monday Evening

Evening News · Tuesday 22 July 1924 · page 10

Reuter's Tientsin correspondent says that the city is again menaced by flood waters, which have risen to a depth of 22ft at a distance of 15…

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West of the Warrego a Flooded "Sahara" Men of the Central Plains 4. the Shallow Nile

The Sun · Tuesday 22 July 1924 · page 12

Recently there has been a repetition of the attempts, mostly "professorial," to fasten the label of "desert" on Central Australia…

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