Storm Damage Government Assistance?
The Department of Works and Local Government is making arrangements for an inspection of the area in Blacktown Shire recently damaged by heavy…
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1,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 64
Fierce Gale Off Norway London
The Oslo correspondent of "The Times" states that the German cruiser Koln, which is proceeding northward to protect fisheries, sent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in U.S.A. 500 Isolated in Mountains. More Reported Dead. Los Angeles, March 6
It is expected that final reports will show.that more than 300 have been killed by the disastrous floods which have swept California…
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LOS ANGELES, Sunday. -- Damage estimated at £15,000,000 has been done by the floods which have devastated large areas of California…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fierce Gales. German Cruiser Damaged. (Published in "The Times ") LONDON, March 7
The Oslo correspondent of "The Times" states that the German cruiser Koin, while on her way north to police German fisheries, wirelesed that a, terrific gale was sweeping the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Night in Tree to Escape Floods. Remarkable Escape. ADELAIDE
The story of a remarkable escape from the recent Alberga River flood in Central Australia, was told by the crew of the relief truck which returned to Oodnadatta yesterday, after…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Imports Flood Continues CANBERRA
THE Commonwealth had an unfavorable commodity balance of £1,463,000 with overseas countries for the first eight months of 1937-38…
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The Bexley council has decided to try to assist property owners who suffered severe damage as a result of a heavy thunderstorm at the end of January…
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"We cannot go into people's homes and see their furniture entirely ruined by flood waters during a storm and do nothing about it," said Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queenslander Storm's Smashing Sailing Success Skipper Smith Stagers Sydney Skiffmen Wins International 12ft. TITLE
VAUCLUSE (N.S.W.) star skippers and crews were at sixes and sevens in the inter-national 12ft. skiff championship, sailed on Greenwich Club's course, on Saturday. Tricky backpuffs had them, popping on and off their gunwales like shags on rocks. SCANDAL and Sybarite…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Fowls Flooded
"My fowl houses were flooded and new litter had to be removed," wrote R. Newton in a letter to Baulkham. Hills Council on Tuesday, complaining of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Battle for River. Japanese Cross. China's Firm Resistance. Area Flooded. HANKOW, March 9
Under the protection of a heavy artillery barrage, a Japanese force of 1,000 men, assisted by 20 tanks, succeeded in crossing the Yellow River…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cyclone Havoc on Plantations Calcutta
Already 25 are known to have been killed and 45 injured in a cyclone which is razing tea estates in the Dibrugarh Hills, in the Lakhimpur…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sydney Monday Herald. Saturday, March 12, 1938. Storm-clouds Over Europe
Austria, on the eve of a plebiscite in which the people are being asked to assert their desire for independence, is in the throes of Nazi riots; France,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Big Death Roll In Cyclone CALCUTTA
ALREADY 25 to 45 have been killed or injured in a cyclone that is razing tea estates in the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Austria's Frenzy--joy and Terror Power Of Nazis Sweeps Country Like Hurricane Thousands Flee, Many Arrests By Storm Troops--Officials Resign Posts LONDON
The wildest scenes of joy, frenzy and terror in Vienna and provincial towns followed Austria's surrender to Germany. The forces of Nazism seemed to sweep the country like a hurricane. Those who favored the German conquest flocked into the streets singing and crying "Heil…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wonder Boat of Sailing Lightning Does The Trick Again Gale's Toll
ONLY six boats finished in yesterday's League 18-footer race, which provided yet another triumph for W. ("Billo") Hayward at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freighter Rescues Crew Grim Struggle on Harbor in Southerly Gale Two Girls Collapse; Hour in Water
THE overseas freighter, Clan Macarthur, yesterday rescued the crew of the 16-footer, Joyce, wrecked in the southerly gale off Chowder Head. Two girls in the crew of six collapsed from cramp and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fierce Storm. Damage at Woodburn
Late on Sunday night a cyclonic storm of unusual fury struck the town of Woodburn, on the Richmond River, and left a trail of damage. The rowing club's boatshed was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Freighter's Battle Unable To Make Heads In Gale: 24-Hours' Tossing
A BRITISH freighter, the Benvenue, tossed around Sydney Heads in a southerly buster for more than 24 hours before she anchored in Athol Bight last night…
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