Gale Kills Boy, Wrecks Craft On River HOBART
Kenneth McKay Tuttle, 8, was killed instantly when a large poplar tree was blown down at Glenorchy yesterday…
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Big Berlin Stores Close Inflation Flood Let Loose Staggers Trade LONDON
Fifteen of Berlin's biggest emporiums will be closing before February, according to the Amsterdam "Telegraaf's" Berlin correspondent. A leading German…
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Cloudbursts occurred at Gunnedah and Tamworth yesterday. The main northern railway' line eight miles north of…
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A cloudburst behind Tamworth this afternoon delayed the Brisbane mail, washed away railway lines, blocked…
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An injured man was flown 158 miles yesterday through a heavy rainstorm to Darwin Hospital. He is Fred Hardy, 74, station owner,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured Man's. Ordeal. Long Journey to Darwin. Flight Through Storm. Darwin
Mr. Roy Edwards flew his tiny Moth aeroplane through heavy monsoonal storms to make an emergency dash to Pine Creek and back yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Turkish Floods. Further Destruction Reported. LONDON, Jan. 7
After several days of silence a message from Smyrna to-day states that more disastrous floods have deluged Smyrna and neighbouring districts…
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With four and five inches of rain falling daily, flooding is continuing in the North Coastal sections of Queensland, where rivers have now…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →P.M. Gives 'Storm' Warnings London
The war in the first week of the year had been quiet, said Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech to-day, but it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quiet of Calm Before the Storm London, Tuesday. Our Own Cable Service
"We have swept the oceans of the world clear of German shipping," says Chamberlain in War review. SURVEYING the progress of the war in a speech to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooding the World with Lies To the Editor
Sir,—Will the public in general, ever come to realise the extent to which the world is flooded with lies in the cause of propaganda—political,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods Delay Salvage Party
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A. party from Cairns trying to reach a damaged plane on Mission Beach, near Tully, was blocked several times today by…
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"HAPPY YODELLER" (Aahley),—Lighining crackled, then thunder boomed and shook the walls of talie house. Tress bowed in surrender and birds and animals sought…
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Katherine River has risen to a height of almost 60 feet. Anxiety is felt for the safety of missionary and half-caste residents…
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Much speculation surrounds the “talks” between Italy and Hungary. Behind it all are conspiracies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Natives Feed and Aid Stranded Men Boat Swamped In Gale DARWIN
Blown ashore exhausted after clinging to their swamped launch, three Darwin men returning from Melville Island were saved from starvation by aborigines…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods in the North. Worst in History. Katherine Inundated. Adelaide
The worst floods ever known in the Northern Territory have isolated about 5,000 square miles of country, and are endangering many small communities…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →River Like an Inland Sea Widespread Floods In N.T. DARWIN
Widespread floods in the Northern Territory were reported when the Guinea Airways plane from Adelaide reached Darwin to-day…
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This painting by Sydney Long, A.R.E., won the Wynne Art Prize in 1938 for the best landscape in oils, and was purchased by the Commonwealth Government for Parliament House, Canberra. It is reproduced by permiseion of the artist. (See accompanying article.)…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Night Ordeal in Storm. Launch Wrecked. Young Men Rescued by Aborigines. DARWIN
Three young men who were shipwrecked on the coast have reached Darwin suffering from exposure and hunger. When their launch was…
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