China's Floods Extend Hongkong
REPAIR of the broken dykes of the Yellow River is now impossible. Japanese, and Chinese experts…
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News Of The World From Daily Telegraph Correspondents Train's Death Plunge Through Bridge at Midnight: 29 Killed, Many Still Missing Bodies Dragged From Ooze Of Flooded Stream Miles City (Montana)
MORE than 125 passengers, many of them in a sleep from which they never awakened, were plunged into a flooded torrent when a train dropped at midnight through a broken bridge near here…
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SEVERE storms are battering overseas and interstate vessels on their way to Sydney. The freighter Mackarra had her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipping Delayed Severe Storms Off Coast
Several vessels hound for Sydney have been delayed by bad weather. The Mackarra, originally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Desperate Fight To Fix Steering Gear In Fierce Storm
While big seas broke over them, seamen of the freighter Mackarra battled for seven hours in a frantic effort to repair steering gear. Twice the gear broke in the height of a gale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FLOODLIGHTING Granville Proposal Council Will Receive Deputation
Granville Council last week decided to receive a deputation from the Granville District Chamber of Commerce relating to the proposed floodlighting scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Guster Greek Disaster. Floods Recede. Long Task for Rescue Workers. New York, June 21
The waters of Clister Creek, Sangus, Montana, have receded, revealing: the torn and twisted locomotive and cars of the transcontinental express train…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, June 22, 1938. Yellow River Floods
All accounts of the disastrous flooding of the Hwang-ho (Yellow Elver), in consequence of the breaching of the dykes near Chengchow by the retreating…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Floods Check Attack Japan's Move On Hankow LONDON
Foiled by the floods in their attack on Hankow from the north, the Japanese will attack from the east, says a message from Shanghai…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mackarra Safe. Arrival at Sydney. Repairs Effected in Gale
The A.U.S.N. cargo steamer Mackarra, which was reported to be in trouble with her steering gear disabled, off the north coast of New South Wales on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Second River-burst Halts Japan: Armies Imperilled Dual Floods Strike Smashing Blows for Defenders Hongkong
JAPAN'S armies are now imperilled by the bursting of the banks of the Yangtse River, which was their remaining line of advance on Hankow, China's administrative capital…
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HEAVY rain is approaching New South Wales. It should be fine in the city this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yangtse Floods Delay Japan's Army. "Advance Now Impossible." Chinese Leaders Confident. Offices Will Not be Removed From Hankow. HANKOW, June 23
The Yangtse Kiang has overflowed both its northern and southern banks in the neighbourhood of Taihu, whence the Japanese were advancing on Hankow. The Chinese believe that the Japanese can no longer carry out large-scale operations…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Floods Halt Big Battles “Japanese Public Is Uneasy” Amazing Partizan Activities
HANKOW.—In the Lunghai railroad sector no militarv operations are taking place. The flood is worsening (lie position the Japanese troops, who are in the submerged districts It is considered that the invader…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOCULAR -- WETORFINE Hamurah Chief Banger In Doomben Sprint Clearing Conditions After Heavy Rain BRISBANE
WET or fine, Jocular has bright prospects of winning the Doomban Newmarket at Doomben tomorrow, with Hamurah the danger…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Yacht on World Cruise. Eights Gales to Reach New Zealand. AUCKLAND
After a succession of gales, the South African ketch-rigged yacht Land's End arrived at Auckland from Rarotonga on a world voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Could Not Find Drome In Storm WAGGA
BLINDED by a fierce storm, an A.N.A. passenger plane was forced to return here after failing to locate the aerodrome at Canberra. The plane, with Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plane's Battle with Storm. Pilot Flies Blind. Forced to Turn Back. Wagga
After battling with blinding rain and wind for more than an hour to-day, Mr. Godsell, the pilot of the Australian National Airways D.H.86 Loila, bound…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Boys' Search for Gold. Cruise in Stolen Yacht. Driven in by Storm. Mexico City, June 24
After cruising for 2,000 miles, the three 16-year-old High school students of Santa Cruz, California, who last month stole a 52ft auxiliary yacht and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Six Perish in Cloudburst Flood
NEW YORK, Friday.--Six lives were lost when a cloudburst flooded the streets of Havre (Montana) to a depth of six feet…
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