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Floods & storms, 1940

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B.E.F. Chaplains' Gallantry on the Retreat from Dunkirk Story of Two Wonders—Violent Storm and Channel Calm

The Methodist · Saturday 17 August 1940 · page 4

Piece by piece the epic story of the great deliverance of the B.E.F. from the hands of the enemy is being unfolded. As in a great mosaic, the tesserae seem often…

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Only Heavy Rain Can Avert Water Failure No Sign of Break in Drought

The Sun · Sunday 18 August 1940 · page 9

Only rain -- from 10 to 20 inches in flood falls over the catchment area -- can save Sydney, next year, from the…

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Binnia Hero Busts Him "Mr. Flood" Swamped: £1000—£400

Truth · Sunday 18 August 1940 · page 3

STUPENDOUS and reckless plunging hit a real high-water mark at Victoria Park yesterday, when the biggest betting forces at present operating on…

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Cyclone in North Q'land Brisbane

The Sun · Thursday 22 August 1940 · page 3

Towns along the northeast coast of Queensland have been warned to prepare for another cyclone--the eighth this year--which is now…

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Cyclone Off N. Queensland Brisbane

The Sun · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 3

The cyclone, which was reported between Mackay and Willis Island, is still 250 miles from the coast, and showing no decided movement or…

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Flood of Arms in Britain London

The Sun · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 4

"We now have an army that is armed; we now have an arms industry greater in output and far greater in future productive capacity than anyone three months ago would have dared to think possible."…

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Goulburn District Dry. Heavy Rain Needed. GOULBURN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 10

If rain does not full soon it will be necessary to have part of the district declared a drought area to enable owners to obtain fodder at concession rates to…

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Fight for Air Supremacy. Britain and U.S.A. Draw Nearer. Rising Storm Clouds in Balkans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 12

Challis Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney. Mr. Churchill's vibrant speech to the Commons last Tuesday was one of the outstanding events of our time. He gave consciously directed cerebration to the world-organism at a moment when disintegrating…

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Bomber Explodes in Thunderstorm New York

The Sun · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 1

Two officers and seven men were killed when an army bomber, carrying 15 bombs, exploded in a heavy thunderstorm near Watkins…

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Lindrum Pocketed in Gale Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 25 August 1940 · page 39

Caught in a gale and torrential rain, Horace Lindrum and a companion sheltered in their bogged car for three…

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Withstanding the Storm

The Sun · Tuesday 27 August 1940 · page 5

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Gale Aids Fast Track Times Reading Moves Well at Rosebery Flying Knight Shows Speed

The Sun · Thursday 29 August 1940 · page 36

Gale conditions discounted the value of fast times on the training tracks to-day, but Reading and Radical impressed in their work at Rosebery. Flying Knight and Beau Vite acquitted…

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Inigo Jones Predicts Storms for Late September; Outlook for Rain

The Land · Friday 30 August 1940 · page 3

CROHAMHURST Observatory, Q., August 21.—The present year and that following should be found to show some marked contrasts in their…

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Minister in Plane During Storm BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 1 September 1940 · page 11

With the Minister for the Interior (Senator Foll) on board, the Australian National Airways Douglas DC3 Warana, on the run from…

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Fierce Storm Delays Airliner's Landing

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 September 1940 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Australian National Airways' plane Warana ran into a fierce storm on the flight from Sydney on Saturday night…

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Gale Brings Light Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 2

A severe electrical storm struck the outskirts of Sydney and the South Coast last night. Light scattered rain fell in most of…

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'Scabbing' Storm in Labor

The Sun · Friday 6 September 1940 · page 5

Angry replies were made by Mr. Beasley and Mr. Lang to-day to the statement of the Labor (Official) Leader…

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British Designers to Storm New York

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 September 1940 · page 3

THAT Britain, despite the war, is going to make a keen bid for fashion honours, and will even bring the contest to America's doors, is seen in the tact that the Mantle and Costume Export…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, September 10, 1940 Storm Over London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 September 1940 · page 8

Anger and horror mingle with admiration of the fortitude of the London populace as we in Australia watch with strained intensity…

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Children storm gun carriers

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 September 1940 · page 6

Three Bren gun-carriers were besieged by children yesterday in Burren Street, Erskineville. While the gun-carriers were being…

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