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Floods & storms, 1934

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Flood Death Roll in Japan 200 DROWNED: 500 Are Missing Tokio

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 1

Police reports state that the flood has resulted in 200 persons being drowned, while 500 are reported missing. Damage to property is…

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The Yellow River and 'Flu Germs Eminent DR.'s Theory Flood Dust

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 8

THE outbreak of influenza among the members of the Australian Test team in England should serve to bring…

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Japanese Floods. Heavy Death-roll. TOKYO, July 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 14

It is officially announced that 127 parsons are known to have been drowned, and 99 are missing, as a result of the widespread inundations in the prefectures of Tshikawa and…

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Lashed by Gale and Big Seas Ill-omened Beach Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 15 July 1934 · page 1

Terrific storms have lashed Apollo Bay and Queenscliff for nearly eight days. High seas, swept up by gusty…

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"Flood of Acclaim" for Hepburn "Morning Glory"

The Sun · Sunday 15 July 1934 · page 19

EDDIE CANTOR finishes his long run in "Roman Scandals" at the State Theatre on Thursday, and on Friday Katharine Hepburn appears…

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Floods, Drought in China Peking

The Sun · Sunday 15 July 1934 · page 5

A recurrence of famine conditions in several important agricultural regions in China, due to both flood and drought is foreshadowed in…

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Home Crashes in Gale Sleeping Man's Narrow Escape

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 July 1934 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--In a 60- miles-an-hour gale, Arthur Fisher, of Apollo Bay, had a narrow escape from death when the walls and roof…

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Flood-lighting of Park Memorial

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1934 · page 7

In connection with the proposal to floodlight the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, the city engineering department of the City Council…

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Youth of America Behind Roosevelt Dawn of Hope in New Deal Student-Debater's Floodlight On N.R.A. "Not Radical"

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1934 · page 5

SMASHING aside much idle propaganda, Mr. R. K. Burns, the visiting student-debater of the University of Washington,…

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Calm After Storm In Associates' Golf World

The Sun · Wednesday 18 July 1934 · page 2

A distinct calm Has settled down over the world of associate golf since Mrs. Clements and Miss Buckle brought in such a decisively winning card, in the championship four-somes at Royal Sydney--a brilliant finale to the State tournament. The scoring otherwise was not…

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Gale on Maiden Voyage. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 10

The new Union steamer Waitaki berthed to-night on her maiden voyage from the Bluff, N.Z., more than 36 hours late on a voyage which should have occupied only four days…

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Stack Silage Withstands Flood Waters at the Berry Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 12

SEVERAL stacks of [?]llage were made from surplus pasture during last summer at the Berry Farm. Some of those bad not been made very long when…

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Floods in China. Railway Washaways. Panic in Harbin. Shanghai, July 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 9

While Shanghai and Central China are suffering an unprecedented heat wave, having been without rain for 30 days, and with a drought and famine threatened, Harbin is…

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Test Pitch Partly Flooded London

The Sun · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 1

Dick Moulton, the groundsman at Headingly, Leeds, was non -committal regarding the effect of today's rainstorm, which partly…

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More Than 100 Are Drowned Floods In S. Poland Follow Torrential Rains Traffic Stops Warsaw, Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 1

MORE than 120 persons were drowned, mainly children, in the terrible floods in South Poland, which followed 32 hours of…

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Australia's Lonely Cyclone Warning Station

The Land · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 18

A THOUSAND miles from Brisbane (250 miles east of Cairns) lies Willis Islet, a tiny patch of sand in the…

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Waitaki at Melbourne Delayed by Severe Gales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 4

The new Union S.S. Co.'s steamer Waltaki arrived at Melbourne on Wednesday night on her first voyage from the Bluff to Melbourne. Having…

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Through Storm to a Record 1000 Miles Ride By Opperman (Published by permission of the Australian Broadcasting Commission)

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 7

COMPLETING his 1000-mile mile ride in England in the excellent time of 74 hours 15 minutes, Hubert Opperman, Australian…

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Floods in Poland. 50,000 Families Homeless. WARSAW, July 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 15

It is officially stated that 50,000 families are homeless as a result of the floods over the vast area between the Carpathians and cra[?]ow, and that a further 30,000 people are…

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Cyclone Which Died to Zephyr Favorite Star Lover Left It In Along Came Arroba to Win Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 22 July 1934 · page 3

THE TRUTH of the old axiom, "Good things were only made to be beaten," was exemplified in the First Division of to-day's Caulfield) Lillimur 2-Year-Old. STAR LOVER stood out like a lighthouse on a rocky coast for this race…

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