Gale Sweeps Away Balloons STOCKHOLM
A sou'-wester to-day drove a, new batch of British barrage balloons to Sweden. Planes shot down some and…
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Soldiers Dance in Storm Cairo
Australian soldiers took off their shirts and danced round in the rain when a violent storm yesterday…
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A howling gale over the Channel, with torrents of rain and very rough seas, kept German raiders away from England to-day, except for odd planes, which sneaked in above the heavy cloud blanket and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.Fs. Fierce Blow at the Ruhr Bombers Fight Through Raging Storm Lightning Attack on Krupp Works Ports & Dromes Also Get Hammering LONDON
Groping their way through great hanks of low cloud, and fighting fierce electrical storms, R.A.F. bombers last night carried out one of the most devastating raids yet made on armament works and oil storage plants in the…
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There were thousands of saboteurs in the United States, the Secretary for the Navy…
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Fine, warm and sultry weather was forecast for Sydney to-day by the Acting State Meteorologist (Mr. Newman)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roosevelt Calls in Navy Chiefs Canada Bans Copper Exports To Japan Burma Road As Storm Centre Americans in Orient Get Warning LONDON
Presidential consultations with U.S. Navy chiefs and feverish diplomatic activity were the sequel to to-day's two major developments affecting the Far Eastern situation. These were:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of Mr. A. S. Gale
Mr. Augustus Septimus Gale, 67, who died on Tuesday was prominently connected with the wheat milling industry for more than 40 years. He introduced many innovations…
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WE have now reached the point of the second stormy series in October, and there are stormy appearances in the sky of a minor…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Surrounded by miles of blazing country, residents of Bruthen, Omeo, and Orbost, in East…
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Although the high humidity yesterday made the heat unpleasant to bear, the Acting State Meteorologist, Mr. Newman, said last night that it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Rain in Egypt. Setback to Italians. May Block "Lifeline." From Our War Correspondent with the A.I.F. CAIRO, Oct. 17
Torrential rain fell in Egypt's Western Desert yesterday, flooding the tents of the A.I.F. and threatening to wash away the Italians' supply road…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Capsizes Galore in 40 M.p.h. Gale Glick Clicks 'Mid S.f.s. Thrills
THE forty-mile-an-hour north-easter that yesterday greeted the nineteen starters of the Sydney Flying quadron in the race for Commodore "Bill" Anderson's Cup, proved a bit too tough for many…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floods Drown 200 BARCELONA
Two hundred are known to be dead and the death-roll is feared to be higher as the result of the great floods in the Gerona province…
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Two hundred people are already known to have been drowned in terrible floods in Spain…
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After a light thunderstorm at 10 o'clock to-night steady rain fell at Grafton and is continuing. This is the best rain experienced here since the end of June, and gives the…
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A south-west wind which at the height of yesterday afternoon's thunderstorm reached…
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A thunderstorm yesterday afternoon, caused a hold-up on the North Shore railway, traffic being delayed for up to 30 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wake Island Air Base Damaged. Swept by 115 m.p.h. Gale. San Francisco, Oct. 20. (A.A.P.)
During a typhoon which struck Wake Island the wind reached a velocity of 115 miles an hour, and did considerable damage to the Pan-American air base…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Four Hundred Perish in Spanish Floods. Barcelona, Oct. 20. (A.A.P.)
More than 400 persons perished in great floods which swept Gerona province, in Catalonia, following heavy rainfalls in the Pyrenees…
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