Ships Adrift in Raging Cyclone Maheno's Tow-line Was Snapped Conah Is Also in Trouble Brisbane
"TOW-ROPE parted by very heavy seas; Maheno drifting west." This startling message…
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Maheno Adrift. Helpless in a Cyclone. Eight Men on Board in Peril. Steamer Oonah Also In Difficulties
The steamer Maheno, carrying a crew of eight men, is drifting helplessly in a cyclone off the Queensland coast. As her propellers have been removed, the vessel is little better than a derelict. When last reported she was 60 miles south-east of Sandy Cape, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Splendid Rains, in Queensland. Some Areas in Flood. Brisbane
The greater part of the State, including the western grazing lands, again participated in good winter rains during the week-end, and rain is still falling in many centres to-night…
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BETWEEN 25 and 30 persons have been drowned in floods in the central and northern portions of New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Seas & Floods Expected
FLOODS possible in the north-eastern quarter of the Slate, a tendency towards the development of another cyclonic centre off the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Where It's Raining in Buckets Nearly A Foot Falls In Parched Areas Flood Warnings Issued
BRISBANE, Monday. -- Due to a cyclonic disturbance, which is now moving southward from Rockhampton, torrential…
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Under the influence of a disturbance, very heavy general rain fell in the south-eastern quarter of the State during the 24 hours ended 9…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fighting Cyclone for Lost Ship Desperate Sortie By Powerful Tug Japs. Adrift in Storm, But Where? Oonah Hove-to In Raging Seas
DESPERATELY plunging to save eight Japanese aboard the lost and helpless liner Maheno, the 12-knot tug Carlock cleared Cape Moreton yesterday in a smother of spray on her 150-mile trip…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chased Away N.S.W. Storm W.A. INFLUENCE
SURVIVAL of the fittest is a law apparently even among weather elements. A big. disturbance which is operating over…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fatal Floods. Motorists Trapped and Drowned. New York. July 8
Setween 25 and 30 persons lost their lives on floods which swept over the central and [?]orthern portions of New York state to-day. The damage to property, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →U.S. Flood Havoc Albany (N.y.)
Receding flood-waters have left the upper portions of the State of New York with 37 dead and seven missing. Property damage is estimated at…
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AT least 40 persons were drowned in floods as the result of torrential rain that devastated the northern part of New York. The worst damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood of Petrol 2ft. Deep: Peril of Fire
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Petrol two feet deep in places covered the ground at the Alba Petroleum Co. of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Taxi-drivers Who Raced in Heavy Rain Penalties for Motoring to Public Dagger
Two taxi-drivers who appeared at the Traffic Court yesterday on charges of having driven in a manner dangerous to the public, had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fruit Marketing Storm Federation's Proposed Legislation Strongly Opposed Growers Angry at Not Being Consulted
After the annual conference of the Fruitgrowers' Federation of New South Wales in June, 1934, the "Farmer and Settler" observed a rather wide divergence of opinion between the citrus section of the industry and other [?] This divergence had to do with marketing, embargn[?] and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vivid Story of Fight with Storm Maheno's Crew Is Safe Ashore Lucky Japs Tell "Telegraph" Stranding Saved Their Lives: Were Glad to Strike the Sand
AFTER a fight with cyclonic seas since 2 p.m. on Monday the eight Japanese seamen who comprised the crew of the Maheno reached shore all alive yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great Floods Millions Suffer LONDON
MILLIONS of Chinese are threatened by floods in the Yangtse and Hwangho valleys, the Hankow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Flood Loss New York
The flood waters in the eastern States have receded, revealing a larger death roll and greater property damage than was at first estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maheno's Crew Overjoyed at Relief. Experience in Cyclone BRISBANE
The Maheno still lies stranded on a sandy beach at Fraser Island. She is lying in shallow water. The Maheno was apparently carried…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Atsuta Maru Battered by Queensland Storm. BRISBANE
Officers of the Japanese liner Atsuta Maru, which reached Brisbane to-day, a day late on the voyage from Japan, stated that the cyclonic weather off the Queensland coast…
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