Flooded Areas Adjournment Motion in Assembly Settlers' Plight
IMMEDIATELY after question time, Mr. Donovan (Murray), moved the adjourned of the House to discuss the plight of settlers and…
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After the Storm
The storm had arisen with amazing suddenness and almost before anyone could realise that it had come it had passed. Great massed banks of dark…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire and Plague Ravage Flooded Hankow. SHANGHAI, Aug. 13
Parts of the flooded city of Hankow are being swept by fire, and plague is spreading. Pickets at Shanghai, who are carrying out the anti-Japanese boycott, have held up…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Murray Floods. Danger in South Australia. ADELAIDE
The flood danger on the Murray River has now passed from New South Wales into South Australia. Breaks occurred this morning in two places along the levee banks protecting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Peril Lower Murray Waits Will Wind Change ? ADELAIDE
With the Murray at Renmark at 26ft 5in.--only 34 inches below the peak of the disastrous 1917 floods-- the river has risen only an inch in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Music and Drama. Toscanini As Storm-centre
Toscanini is again to conduct this year at Bayreuth, and was, at last advices, already there, preparing for the season, and apparently entirely unruffled by his experiences in Italy,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →News from other States Murray Floods
Flood waters of the Murray have reached Renmark (S.A.), and on Wednesday returned soldiers and civilians were working Ions hours in repairing banks in…
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ALF BROOK (Dubbo).—I was in hospital five months ago, but am well now. We play football sometimes, ago marbles and hide and seek. A fortnight ago there was a flood in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Murray Floods. River Seven Miles Wide. ADELAIDE
The engineer-in-chief (Mr. Eaton) said today that the peak of the flood on the Murray River had been reached at Renmark. The river had only risen an inch in the last 24…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Renmark Flood Danger Adelaide
The flood has reached a critical stage at Renmark. Although there was no rise today and the flood is thought to have reached its peak, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in China. Evacuation of Hankow. SHANGHAI, Aug. 15
The people of Hankow are evacuating the city because the flood has risen 18 inches in a day, and is now 15 feet over the Chinese quarter and 10 feet over the former British…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A "Live-squall." Yesterday's Storm
Sydney was yesterday visited by what is known officially as a "live-squall " After a week-end of mild weather and a bright morning, a fresh westerly wind came into…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Won Toss for Places and Lost Their Lives Huge Seas Gale's Big Death Roll Britain Swept London
So tempestuous were the seas that seven campers, wishing to return from the Isle of Wight to Portsmouth, tossed for the only five places available in arrowing boat. Fate, however, took a further hand, the boat was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Lives Lost Storm in England High Winds and Seas London, Tuesday. (British Official Wireless)
Following a week-end of thunder, rain and wind, which caused much damage, stormy weather was experienced along the south coast to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burman Bandits Numerous and Active Irrawaddy Floods London
The India Office states that there is little change in the situation in Burma. Improvement in most districts is maintained, though…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murray Floods. River Two Miles Wide. ADELAIDE
Danger from floods at Renmark is now over. Attention is being directed to places lower down the river, particularly Kingston and Walkerie…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rates on Botany Storm Water Channel
A deputation from the Botany Municipal Council waited on the Minister for Workers yesterday in connection with a proposal that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All About People: Tittle Tattle the Late Father James Flood
The Rev. Father James Flood, one of the veterans of Perth diocese, died at New Norcia on July 28, where he had resided for 27 years. Father Flood was born in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Bank Breaks Heavy Murray Flood Rush for Safety Adedaide
As the result of the breaking of the embankment alongside Cowirra swamp at Mannum 100 acres of valuable land are under water. A gap of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Army Routed by Storm Torrential Rains in England Thames Rises London, Thursday. (British Official Wireless.)
THE army manoeuvres of the First Division at Aldershot, which were planned to continue till Friday, had to be cancelled yesterday on…
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