Finns in Storm of Abuse Soviet Lets Loose Violent Campaign LONDON
The Sun · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 1
Russia is directing a terrific barrage of abuse against the Finnish Government, through the passing of public resolutions. She has thus intensified the "war of nerves,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Northern Storms Are Predicted by Inigo Jones
The Land · Friday 1 December 1939 · page 7
CROHAMHURST OBSERVATORY, Q., November 22.—As was thought possible with the shift of the early components, the rains have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Army at Battle Practice. Flooded Terrain. Gunners Waist-deep in Water. From Our War Correspondent. Western Front, Dec. 1
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 December 1939 · page 17
Throughout last night, part of the British Army engaged in realistic battle practice against imaginary German troops…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Lawson Begs Question Flood Of Duty-free Colored Comics Try This on Your Piano
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 December 1939 · page 3
MINISTER for Customs Lawson, with something approaching political disingenuousness, begged the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.z. Rivers Flood Country
Daily News · Saturday 2 December 1939 · page 3
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--Rivers in the Nelson and Mariborough districts have broken their banks as the result of torrential…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →H. Opperman. 24-Hours Record Attempt. Cycling in Heavy Rain. MELBOURNE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 December 1939 · page 15
Hubert Opperman, the professional cyclist, began an attempt to-day on the 24-hour cycling record, and rode most of the time through heavy rain…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Two-up Under Floodlight Lithgow
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 December 1939 · page 12
Thirty men were disturbed by police at midnight in a game of two-up under a floodlight at Glen Davis, the new shale oil town. At the Rylstone Police Court John…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Day Of Heat,Snow, Gales In N.S.W.
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 1
Gales, rain, hail, snow, and temperatures reaching 93 degrees were reported in New South Wales yesterday. "The west to south-west wind…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Rage Over State Flames Fanned by Gale
Daily News · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 2
BUSHFIRES fanned by strong winds, approaching gale force in some parts, swept over large areas of the State yesterday. The fires raged through grass, scrub and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale Hits Sydney Reaches Speed Of 60 m.p.h
Daily News · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 1
Whipping itself up to 60 m.p.h. fury, the westerly gale which swept Sydney yesterday was the strongest in the city since August 30…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Westerly Gale. Speed of 60 Miles an Hour. Church Steeple Blown Down
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 December 1939 · page 15
A westerly gale swept parts of New South Wales yesterday. The wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour at Sydney. A church steeple was blown…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Crossing a Flood
Nepean Times · Thursday 7 December 1939 · page 1
GOT any tucker (over there? " yelled a swaggle from one side of a North Queensland river in flood.The chaps on the other side said they had,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dutch Flood Dykes As Precaution
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 December 1939 · page 3
BARRIERS. Dykes, kept constantly flooded by the Dutch as a precaution against invasion. Areas like this are considered almost impregnable to motorised army units…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Sets Dog On Hurdle Career
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 December 1939 · page 41
A thunderstorm was responsible for Shade of Odds, winner of the Park Hurdle Stake at Wentworth Park last night, being trained over jumps. "About 15 months ago I had…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Dance For Red Cross All white setting and floodlit garden at Bellevue Hill home
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 December 1939 · page 25
One hundred guests, representing more than two hundred guineas for the Red Cross, danced last night at Barford, the Bellevue Hill home of Mr. and Mrs. Warwick Fairfax…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Flooded Hold Saves Ship Brisbane
The Sun · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 5
To check a new outbreak of fire on a wool ship here to-day, firemen had to flood one hold and submerge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Second Fire on Steamer. Wool Cargo Affected. Hold Flooded. Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 12
When firemen had apparently subdued a fire which broke out in the No. 1 hold of an oversea vessel at the Hamilton wharf, alter fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Flood in N.Z. Houses Isolated. Military Camp Evacuated. Auckland
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 12
The greatest flood in living memory has swept down the Hutt Valley, Wellington. Many houses have been isolated and bridges destroyed. Losses…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Record Floods in N.Z. Grim Shock For Householder Wellington (N.z.)
The Sun · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 10
The occupants of a house in a Wellington hill suburb awoke to find their home on the brink of a 100ft. drop…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm Over Capra's Latest
Daily News · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 7
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is the first Columbia production under the new Greater Union Theatres contract for 1940, recently negotiated by Mr. Norman B. Rydge. This picture, which is Frank Capra's latest [?]…
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