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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 67

Ganges Ferry Capsizes. 26 Lives Lost in Flood. CALCUTTA, Aug. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 August 1933 · page 10

Twenty-six persons were drowned in a disaster on the Ganges, near the Ramnagar Fort at Benares, when a ferry boat, containing 30 passengers, including a dozen women, was…

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Scott No Spent Force Americans Meet Human Cyclone

Referee · Thursday 10 August 1933 · page 12

THERE was unquestionably more merit in veteran Hon. Michael Scott's win over the young American, Dunlap, in the semi-final of the British…

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Golfers Disqualified. Only One Plays on During Storm. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1933 · page 10

Those who seek golf honours have to abide by the rules of the game, and rain and lightning must not deflect them, even women, from the course…

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Floodlighting of Memorial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1933 · page 12

The Anzac Memorial, now under construction in Hyde Park, as it appeared last night…

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FLOODLIGHTING. Experiments at Anzac Memorial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1933 · page 8

Experiments were conducted last night with the Hood light system which is to be used on the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park on commemorative occasions…

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R. G. Gale and H. G. Ashton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 16

A sound exponent in R. G. Gale, and a brilliant young player, H. G. Ashton, will meet in the final of the New South Wales Club championship at La Perouse during the week-end. Opinion is divided…

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Cassel Storm Detachment Mutinies Berlin, 23rd June

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 4

The lower and middle strata of the population of Cassel have been thrown into seething excitement by the “voluntary emergency…

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Goring Hissed by Storm Troops Vienna, 27th June

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 1

“Eichingers Zeitungsdienst,” whose source of information is the statement of a reliable German fugitive, publishes…

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Mutiny in the Bochum Storm Division Berlin, 28th June

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 4

The events in Cologne, where members of the National Socialist Storm recently distributed revolutionary leaflets, and a Storm Trooper…

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Concentration Camp For Rebellious Storm Troopers. Berlin, 24th June

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 1

A concentration camp near Wilsede, in the Luneberg Heath, where about 2000 Communists and Social-Democrats were…

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Gale in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 13

An unusually heavy northerly gale swept the southern half of the North Island and the northern part of the South Island yesterday. Vessels experienced difficulties at the…

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Wind Stops Cars in N.z. Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--During a storm in the Marlborough province, cars travelling at 25 miles an hour were brought…

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Storm Causes Damage in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 10

Considerable damage is reported to have been caused at Napier Carterton, Marlborough, and other centres during a storm which passed…

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Powerful Deputation Enrages Lyons Gun Was Held at His Head Storm Breaks Out Over Tariff Demands Heated Scene

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 5

WHEN a deputation representing the Chamber of Commerce, the Graziers' Association, British manufacturers and others in…

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Flood Threats Hoang-ho's Waters Rise Ominously Dangerous Breaks in Its Banks Shanghai

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 1

Millions of Chinese on the plains around the river-bed of the Hoang-Ho (the Yellow River)…

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Real Dictators Of United States Brain Storms Of Roosevelt's Brain Trust What THEY Say Goes The FIGURE Head President

Truth · Sunday 13 August 1933 · page 16

A DICTATORSHIP is not always easy to diagnose. In the United States dictatorship is a…

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Orient's Powerless Fatalists Face Catastrophic Deluge Death Threat to Millions Terrible Menace Of World's Most Treacherous River Will Mighty Hoang-ho Break Its Banks? Shanghai

Truth · Sunday 13 August 1933 · page 14

MILLIONS OF LIVES ARE THREATENED... BUT, WITH THAT FATALISM WHICH ONLY THE ORIENT KNOWS, THAT PHILOSOPHICAL ACCEPTANCE OF WHAT MUST BE THAT MAKES THE YELLOW MAN AND HIS…

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Night Flood Wipes Out Sleeping Village Calcutta

The Sun · Sunday 13 August 1933 · page 2

Fifty people were drowned while asleep in their huts in a village on the bank of a river near Chandi, Hyderabad…

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Fear Communist Moves Rigorous Search by Storm-troopers Berlin

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 August 1933 · page 7

Storm-troopers, acting under the orders of the secret police, conducted a rigorous search of every vehicle leaving or entering the city last night…

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Drought and Flood Relief. Arrears Postponed at Coonamble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 August 1933 · page 7

COONAMBLE.—At a sitting of the local Land Board Mr. James Geary, chairman, heard a number of applications for relief under the Crown Lands (Amendment) Act,…

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