Our Daily Feature Strips and Stories Jim Gale (New All-Australian Story Strip)
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Wealthy Officer's 12/6 THEFT. Former Naval Commander. Felt "Storm Coming." Perth
A retired Commander of the Royal Navy, with English and Scottish estates worth £35,000, who became intoxicated and stole a suitcase valued at 12/6, after he had vainly…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New Novels. Storm and Stress. "A Child of Our Time," by Odon von Horvath; Methuen
In a brief appreciation, Stefan Zweig praises this writer in no uncertain terms: "In Odon von Horvath," he says, "German literature has lost the most…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Terror of the North The Cyclone And Its Appalling Toll Summer time is cyclone time, and during the warm months up to the end of next April the far-stretching tropical coast of the northern half of this continent is likely to be swept, as it has been swept every year since the beginning of white settlement in the north, by those relentless hurricanes which invariably leave death and destruction in their wake
PROBABLY no other part of the world bears so tragic a history of cyclone destruction as our far north. North Queensland, the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Dutch Airliner Delayed. Thunderstorms Forecast
The east-bound Dutch airliner scheduled to land at Kingsford Smith airport yesterday afternoon stayed overnight at Brisbane because the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coalfields Flooded Trains Held-Up, Town Isolated
KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- Torrential rains fell over the northern Goldfields and the Kalgoorlie district all last night and to-day. The terrific downpour caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kalgoorlie Isolated By Floods KALGOORLIE
The floods have now isolated Kalgoorlie from all centres. More torrential rain has washed away railway lines; blocked roads…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Gales In New Zealand AUCKLAND
Railway property suffered severely in South Otago during a gale. Crichton railway station was lifted off the platform and deposited in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Walls Collapse As Gale Strikes Town
TAMWORTH, Sunday. -- Five thousand pounds damage was done to property when the town of Barraba, north of Tamworth, was hit by a gale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Wrecks Hospital Tamworth
HOUSES were wrecked, trees uprooted, telephone and telegraph lines smashed down, and a number of residents injured in a terrific storm which struck Barraba at 3 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms in W.A. South-West Suffers. Baby Drowned in Creek Perth
Continued storms with heavy rain in south-western districts have caused enormous damage, and resulted in the drowning of a baby in a flooded creek…
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hitler's New Decree. Order to Conscripts. Must Become Storm Troopers. Berlin, Jan. 22
Herr Hitler has issued a decree, stating that all men after the completion of their military service will be attached to Stormtroop formations, for the main…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood's Toll £1,500,000
KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--To-morrow, normal work will be resumed here ofter the most devastating floods in the history of the field…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods May Follow Heat Wave
Heavy rains, with floods, are not improbable within the next few days. The State Meteorologist (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floodlit Garden An Attractive Setting For Party
FROM LEFT: Miss Joan Marr and her fiance, Mr. Allen Proudford, with their hostess, Miss Jean Crisp, at the dance the latter gave at her home at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lifeboat Loses Seven Men In Fierce Gale LONDON
Seven men are missing from St. Ives (Cornwall) lifeboat, which put out to rescue a ship in distress…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Airmen. Flight Over Timor in Storm. DARWIN
Despite a severe storm which reduced visibility over the Timor Sea to a few feet, the German fliers, Lieutenants H. Pulkowski and R. Jenett, left Ross Smith Aerodrome at 9.5…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Heavy Storm Loss. Damage Exceeds £100,000. PERTH
Damage to towns, crops, roads, railways, and private property caused by rain and ha[?]l in south-western parts of Western Australia in the past few…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£70,000 Storm Toll In W.A. PERTH
Storms and floods have caused £70,000 damage in the south-west. Hail destroyed 20 per cent. of the export fruit crop in the Bridgetown…
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