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Floods & storms, 1935

1,160 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 58

Walls of Ice After Storm Rain, Hail, on Station: None Next Door

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 1

SURAT (Q.), Monday.--Cooroorah Station, in the Moonie district, had a freak storm all on its own to-day. Only a few points of rain fell on…

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Storm Clouds in Europe

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 11

EVERY day Europe is getting closer to what it was, as a huge armed camp of rival alliances, before the outbreak of the Great War…

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Petrol Rise Creates Storm Losing Money Is Explanation Of Co. Motoring Bodies Attack

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 7

THE two representative motoring bodies in N.S.W.-- the N.R.M.A. and the R.A.G.A. --vigorously attacked the 1d a…

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Mighty Storm At Sea

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 2

THE tiny tramp steamer ploughed her way steadily through the sluggish swell of the sea. Overhead the night-sky was obliterated by…

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Watching Weak Walls Gale and Goldsbrough, Mort's Building

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 9

A careful watch was kept last night on the remaining walls of Golds-brough Mort's gutted building. Lest the weakened masonry gave…

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Dust Storms South Australian and N.S.W. Districts Suffer

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 2

A PALL of dust, blown from the for north by a hot. dry wind, spread over the greater part of South Australia early this week, sheep turned red in a…

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Abyssinia's Women Answer Call Where Storm Of War Has Broken

The Sun · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 16

THIS new map of Ethiopia, issued by the Institute Geografico de Agostino, a few weeks ago, "is of immense significance," writes Laurence Stallings, who has gone to Ethiopia for "The Sun." "The map omits all…

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Floods Seem More Likely Than Droughts If There Is Anything In The Law of Averages Looking Back to 1890

The Land · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 12

AMATEUR weather prophets (and there are hundreds of them) who have based their drought forecasts on the supposed law of averages, seem to forget that we have not had State-wide floods for 45 years. If the law…

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Hampered Sea Salvage Sunken 'Plane Storm Rages Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 5 October 1935 · page 8

A TERRIFIC storm which raged over Bass Strait, with its centre near Flinders…

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Loina Disaster Gale Interrupts Search for Wreckage

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 5

FLINDERS ISLAND, Sunday.--The Air Accidents Investigation Committee considers that the evidence, if any to account for the…

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Floods in China. Nankin, Oct. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 7

As the result of the recent floods in Hopei, Honan, and Shantung, 5,500,000 people are homeless. Property damage is estimated at £22,500,000…

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First Gale Liner's Performance

The Sun · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 15

Through gale and heavy seas the new P. and O. liner Strathmore, the biggest yet built for the line, made her first run to London after her…

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Eating Grass Flood, Famine Victims in China London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 8

Thousands of more lives have been lost in the floods in northern Kiangsu, where the entire town of Machengan has been submerged, cables "The…

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Parents Sell Children. Floods and Famine in China. (Published in "The Times.") PEKING, Oct. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 14

Thousands more lives have been lost in floods in Northern Kiangsu. The entire town of Machengan is submerged, and Northern Honan is similarly severely suffering. The…

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In A Flooded River

The Sun · Sunday 13 October 1935 · page 3

WITH a start I sat up in bed and shivered slightly with the sudden cold. Something had awakened me, though what It was I could…

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Terrific Storm In Brisbane Suburbs. Ice Packs on Footpaths. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 October 1935 · page 13

Heavy rain which fell in Brisbane this afternoon was followed two hours later by a terrific hailstorm, which swept the southern and western suburbs…

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Cyclone Of Red Dust Sweeps Town Broken Hill Business Held Up Heat Wave, Too 'Worst in History'

The Sun · Thursday 17 October 1935 · page 23

ACCOMPANIED by heavy rolling clouds of red dust, a cyclone, described as "the worst in the history of…

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Cars in Thunderstorms

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1935 · page 16

Severe thunderstorms sometimes cause misgivings to nervous motorists who have the misfortune to be caught in them…

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Hail Smashes Crops: Rain Blinds Motorist: Dust-storms

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 October 1935 · page 7

HAILSTORMS in the Clarence Valley yesterday covered the ground to the ice six inches deep. At Glenreagh, maize and other crops…

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No Dust Storms at Broken Hill Broken Hill, Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 October 1935 · page 7

So far there have been no duststorms here, but conditions are sultry and storms are likely…

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