Flood Disaster in China. Famine and Disease. SHANGHAI, Aug. 20
Slow death is threatening the entire Hankow district. The rising water is continuing to create new high-level records, and it is estimated that 30,000,000…
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League of Nations Day Schools to be Flooded With Dope SYDNEY
Comrade Editor: In this month’s issue of the School Magazine, supplied by the government to all State schools, there is a lying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Resents Rescues From Floods Deniliquin's "Chairs" Called Nuisance
DENILIQUIN, Thursday. --Twice rescued, against his wishes, from danger of death by floods, one Price, an elderly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →30 Millions Hungry Terrific Flood in China Shanghai
THIRTY-ONE millions of Chinese are on the verge of starvation through the Yang-tse flood, which affects an area 1000 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tragic Storm Over Southern Korea. TOKIO, Aug. 21
On Wednesday night a violent storm swept over Southern Korea. It is reported that 260 fishermen were drowned and more than 300 were still missing last night. Heavy damage…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Murray Floods. Town in Peril. ADELAIDE
Unfavourable winds banked up the water along the lower Murray to-day, and the menace from floods has increased. The position at Mannum is serious, as, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Flood Peril Bank Breaks at 1.30 A.M. Families Flee Hundreds Homeless Adelaide
A hundred settlers will become homeless, following the collapse early to-day of the embankments that had protected the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The Flood" (Columbia)
INTRODUCING Monte Blue and Eleanor Boardman in a simple little picture of the wide…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Menace of Murray Flood Danger on the Lower Reaches
ADELAIDE, Friday.--Danger from floods near the Lower Murray towns has been increased through unfavorable winds banking up the water at Mannum. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →China's Floods
FROM China, as Pliny said of Africa, there is always something startling in the news. Nevertheless the mind reels at the idea of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood's Fury Sweeps Over S.A. Township Many Homes Abandoned Settlers' Crops Ruined Adelaide
Mannum, a township on the Murray River about 50 miles from Adelaide, is in the grip of a devastating flood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOLF. Australian Title Seekers. Ferrier's Fine Round in Gale
The 1931 Australian championship meeting commenced at Kensington on Saturday when the amateurs held a stroke competition in conjunction with members of the Australian Club, on whose links…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Floods. Water 10ft Deep in One Township. ADELAIDE
Reclaimed areas in the neighbourhood of Murray Bridge are threatened by an immense volume of water. An appeal has been made for 500 or 1000 men to go to the rescue, with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Lighting in Westminster
Westminster Abbey revealed in the illuminations during the rehearsal of part of the scheme for flood lighting the prominent buildings of London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thousand Men for River Rescue Murray Flood Perils
ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Owing to threatened breaks in the banks holding reclaimed areas in the neighborhood of Murray Bridge, an appeal has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale at Adelaide
ADELAIDE, Tuesday. -- Terrific north winds swept Adelaide to-day. Several fishermen in small craft were in danger, but reached shelter…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Floods. Areas 12ft Under Water. Settlers' Grim Fight. Adelaide
No bad breaks occurred in the Murray River banks to-day, but there is still great anxiety among settlers on the reclaimed areas near Murray Bridge. The peak of the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Murray Flood Bank Breaks Again Adelaide
A gusty wind is banking up the flood water in the Murray between Mannum and Murray Bridge, and the banks are crumbling in many places…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dust-look Out for Storms Gale and Hail Are Feared To-day
SQUALLY, dusty winds reaching gale force. A tendency to a passing thunder or hail storm and warm temperatures, later being replaced by a cold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schneider Cup Storms Stop Trials London
High winds and rough seas again prevented the British Schneider Cup team from making practice flights at Calshot to-day…
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