Expect Big Floods in Victoria
DISASTROUS and widespread floods, expected to begin in Victoria by this evening, may reach southern parts of New South Wales…
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Flood's Toll At Tientsin LONDON
WATER four to nine feet deep covers practically the whole of Tientsin, including the Foreign Concession…
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TOKIO, Monday. -- Six thousand families are homeless as the result of floods in Tokio. Continuous heavy rains since Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods and Gales. Southern Rivers Swollen. Unprecedented Rains
Rivers in the southern parts of the State have been swollen lo flood level by unprecedented rains over a period of several weeks…
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WOLLONGONG, Tuesday. A windstorm caused £900 damage to Hill's Garage, Thirroul, this morning…
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THIRROUL, Tuesday.--Several people narrowly escaped injury when a terrific gust of wind caused the brick wall of a motor bus garage to…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Visiting delegates to the National Dental Congress were entertained at three parties today, starting with a reception given by the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sit-Down Taxi Strike In Melbourne Deluge MELBOURNE
Although drenching rain fell to-day 39 taxi-cabs, parked in a city street, did not move, their drivers staging a sit-down strike. The cabs have been at a standstill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Targets Down. Gale Spoils Rifle Meeting. Brisbane
W. R. Porter, a young Boyneside (Q) rifleman, won the Wienholt Aggregate at the King's Prizemeeting at Enoggera under conditions among the worst in the history of the event. Porter's score…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Ships Fight Against Gale Flying-boat Blown on to Wall Flood Fears As River Rises At Albury
A severe gale buffeted shipping off the N.S.W. coast yesterday and nearly wrecked the Qantas Empire flying-boat at Rose Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lightning Kills Seven. Fierce Storm Over London. (A.A.P. and British Official Wiieless.) LONDON, Aug. 22
Seven persons, were killed and l8 were injured by lightning in a fierce electrical storm at Ilford yesterday. Floods and electric power failures delayed…
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Further heavy rains over the Victorian watersheds have increased the danger of serious floods, particularly from the Goulburn and Latrobe rivers…
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In Wangaratta district -- where most residents are ready for the worst of the floods to-night -- the police are experiencing great difficulties in rescuing people from, or persuading them to leave, their…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--While mast parts of Victoria to which flood warnings have been sent are still watching the rivers rising, Melbourne…
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RESIDENTS of East Wagga and Bolton Park seriously menaced to-night by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All Ready for Flood Should Burringjuck Dam Burst Water Falling at Present
POTENTIAL danger to human life, should Burrinjuck burst, has been reduced to a minimum as a result of intense organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Rains Riverina's Wet Season Flooded Murrumbidgee
RAINFALL records are being broken in the Riverina, which until the beginning of this year was in the grip of drought…
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Children paddling in the flooded streets of South Melbourne, alter heavy rains this week…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tientsin's Flood. Big Area Under Water. Hundreds Drowned. LONDON, Aug. 23. (A.A.P.)
Tientsin is facing the fresh perils of flood, starvation, and epidemics, and residents of the British and French Concessions are fighting a grim battle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floods in Victoria. Melbourne
With heavy rain still falling, the flood situation in many Victoiian centres is becoming worse. Many roads are impassable, families have been isolated, and bridges have been…
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