Golf. Good Scoring in Gale. Ferrier and Hattersley
Despite the gale on Saturday many excellent scores were returned in metropolitan golf competitions J. Ferrier, the Australian open and amateur…
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Death—roll Mounts. More Shocks in Turkey. Floods Add to Horror. LONDON, Dec. 31. (A.A.P.)
The death—roll in the earthquake disaster in Anatolia, Turkey's mountainous hinterland in Asia, is mounting hourly as news from doomed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods Follow 'Quake LONDON, Sunday. Our Own Cable Service
Flood perils in Western Turkey have now added to the trials of the stricken country, still striving to cope with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Turkey. a New Disaster. Millions Lose Homes. LONDON, Jan. 1. (A.A.P.)
A new disaster has befallen Turkey. Floods are devastating the western part of the country to add to the suffering caused by the calamitous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Turkish Flood Horrors London. Monday. Our Own Cable Service
The flood situation in western Turkey is now known to be more serious than at first thought. Several towns and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press Phone: M2406, Newcastle 472 New Floods in Turkey
ANKARA (Turkey), Monday.--A score more towns and villages have been devastated by the sudden flooding or the Sunar River. Beats last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Havoc Follows Quakes
LONDON, Monday.--Flood havoc in western Turkey has complicated still further the task of succoring the earthquake-stricken area in north-east…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cricket Storm Is Over BRISBANE
Queensland Cricket Association has bowed to public opinion in excusing its Sheffield Shield players for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Exclusive News Of The World From Daily Telegraph Correspondents Floods Ravage Turkey 400 Drown in One City; Towns Isolated London
Floods and earthquakes are devastating great areas of western Turkey. The new area affected is west of the area where the death-roll in earlier earthquakes is estimated at 45,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Half-million Thrilled by New Army Sydney Taken by Storm Pride, Joy, Tears At Big March
Australia's new army marched gallantly through the streets of Sydney to-day with the snap and vigor of their fathers -- the Anzacs of 25 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News of the World from Daily Telegraph Correspondents Russian Onslaughts Fail Finns Hold Out in Battle in Blinding Storm London
All the Russian attacks on the Mannerheim Line yesterday were repulsed by the Finns. It is estimated that nearly 200,000 Soviet troops were engaged in the offensive in a blinding snowstorm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Shocks in Turkey. Thousands More Homeless. Euphrates in Flood. LONDON, Jan. 3. (A.A.P.)
A new earthquake reduced to a shambles 10 villages in the Yozgat area, 100 miles east of Turkey's capital, Ankara, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Floods Kill 1000 In One Town LONDON
Rescuers declare that 1000 people were drowned in the floods at Kemal Pasha, Turkey. New areas are threatened in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tragic Floods In Spain LONDON
Many have been drowned by floods in Portugal and southern Spain. The floods followed a three-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Torrential Rain. Floods in Spain and Portugal. LONDON, Jan. 4
Lisbon and the surrounding parts of Portugal are experiencing the worst floods for 20 years, following a torrential rainstorm lasting three days…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lull Before Arctic Storm in Finland
The war on this northern front is like a dormant volcano, rumbling and ready for terrible violence. Both sides are taking advantage of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Songs Flood The Market LONDON, Dec. 12, 1939
THE war--1939-40 version--has not yet produced the great popular song success, but that doesn't…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ruin Spreads in Turkey Big Town Under Flood Rise of Tigris Great Damage London, Friday. Our Own Cable Service
THE tale of disaster in Turkey has been carried further by the news that in south-east Anatolia an entire quarter of a large town on the banks of the Tigris is under flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gale Keeps Women Out
Rough water, lashed up by a southerly gale, caused St. George Motor Boat Club to cancel its "Ladies' Day" fixture at…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Gale, Rivals Beaten by 18-Footer
The 33-years-old 18-footer, Native, survived a howling, 40-miles gale to win the Vice-President's trophy on Sydney Harbor, yesterday. Only eight of the 17 boats finished…
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