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Floods & storms, 1940

682 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 35

The Storm That Is to Some

Liverpool News · Thursday 4 July 1940 · page 2

By our place in the midst of the farthest seas we are lated to stand alone— When the nations fly at each other's turoats let Australia lcok to her own…

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Storm Over the Balkans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 6

Russia's move into Bessarabia, in undisguised contempt for any interests but her own, has thrown the whole Balkan peninsula into agitation. The…

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Convicts Saved Us From Flood of Asiatic Migrants

The Sun · Saturday 6 July 1940 · page 5

With the world circumscribed as it was in 1788, the outlook of the British Government in taking up on itself the colonisation of Australia did not embrace many important considerations that afterwards intruded themselves…

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The Storm That Didn't Break

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 July 1940 · page 1

The threatened storm between Holroyd Council and Wentworthville R.S.L. over land at Friend Park, on which the Diggers sought…

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Deluge Invades 73,000 Houses

Daily News · Thursday 11 July 1940 · page 2

TOKIO, Wednesday -- A fall of 26 inches of rain, which lasted all night, inundated 73,000 houses and the railway station at Osaka…

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City of Osaka Flooded. Tokyo, July 10. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1940 · page 7

A report from the city of Osaka states that 73,000 houses and the Osaka railway station. were inundated by heavy rainfall, which from Monday night to dawn on Tuesday was…

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Cloudburst Floods 73,000 Osaka Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 July 1940 · page 3

TOKIO, Wednesday (A.A.P.).-- Twenty-six inches of rain fell at Osaka during last night. About 73,000 houses and the railway…

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May Modify Plan, Says Stewart Rations for Petrol "Not Definite" Proposals Greeted With Storm Of Criticism

The Sun · Friday 12 July 1940 · page 3

Overwhelmed by the storm of criticism with which the Federal Government's drastic petrol rationing plan has been received, the Minister for Supply (Sir Frederick Stewart) stated to-day that the…

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Heavy Rain Needed. Young Crops Make No Headway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 July 1940 · page 8

Lack of rain practically throughout New South Wales is causing increased anxiety among crop growers and pastoralists. The very light, widely-scattered showers of…

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Bombs in Sleet & Storm London

The Sun · Wednesday 17 July 1940 · page 1

British bombers flew through sleet and severe thunderstorms when raiding into Germany last night…

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Storm Over "No-appeal" War Courts London

Daily News · Thursday 18 July 1940 · page 2

IN the event of invasion "or other serious emergency," British citizens will probably see revoked their judicial rights of appeal and trial by jury…

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Storm Over Press Gag Lively Reaction To Govt. Move

Daily News · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 1

YESTERDAY Australia answered Mr. Menzies' new Press, radio and cinema control regulations with the most violent mass protest ever voiced against a Government…

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Thunderstorm Damage in Yugoslavia. London, July 18 (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 7

The German News Aqency reports that violent thunderstorms in Yugoslavia caused damage estimated at £1,300,000. A landslide buried a goods train. Eleven…

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Death, Havoc In Thunderstorm

Daily News · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--The Berlin News Agency announces that violent thunderstorms in Yugoslavia caused damage estimated at £A1,040,000…

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Cavalcade of Salutations World Torn by Racial Storms Fits Gestures to its Thoughts

The World's News · Saturday 20 July 1940 · page 4

Ten years ago the greeting between man and man and man and woman was almost universally the clasp of handshake or the kiss. But to-day, the raised arm, the clenched fist, the challenging "party-word' have superseded these peaceful manners…

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Floods Isolate Italian Garrisons

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 July 1940 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--Unprecedented rainfalls running from Abyssinian highlands into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan threaten to isolate Italian…

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Calming the Waters. Press Control Storm. National Ministry Move. by Our Canberra Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1940 · page 8

The storm that, followed the gaz[?]ttal of regulations giving the DirectorGeneral of Information large powers over the Press has spent its main…

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War-time Press Regulations. Storms in the Sanctums

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 July 1940 · page 16

When the deplorable Gullett regime was bungling the Federal Department of Information, the great Australian dailies, which aspire to tell the National Cabinet…

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Menzies Stills Another Storm New Promise Calms Cameron Sound All Parties On Lite Of Parliament MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 25 July 1940 · page 3

A statement by the Prime Minister to-day eased the crisis which had developed in Cabinet yesterday over a move to extend the life of Parliament, should the war situation make it dangerous to hold an election…

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Financial Chaos Flood of Marks in France London, Wed. (A.A.P.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 July 1940 · page 2

The flood of German marks into occupied France is causing chaos in French finance…

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