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Floods & storms, 1941

759 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 38

Doug. Flood Called Up for Air Force. Arncliffe Loses Another Good Player

The St George Call · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 3

Doug. Flood, scorer of most runs (700) the Al grade of St George Cricket Association last season, has been called up for the R.A.A.F. and went into camp…

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Homes Lost in Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday. -- Floods have destroyed many homes and hundreds of cattle in Hungary, reports the B.B.C…

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Terrific Battle Raging With Enemy Still 50 Miles Away Bogs, Floods Check Nazis At Leningrad LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 6 September 1941 · page 1

Boggy roads, extensive floods and indomitable Russian resistance have virtually checked the Germans for 24 hours in their Leningrad drive…

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U-boat Captured by Plane Feat in Atlantic Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 5

LONDON, Sept. 8. (A.A.P.).— A Hudson Lockheed bomber of the Coastal Command has captured a German submarine in…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1941. Storm Over Berlin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 September 1941 · page 10

"A storm has broken out over "London of which Churchill prob"ably had never dreamed." Thus the Berlin Radio on September…

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Western Dust Storm Caused by Soil Erosion

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 11 September 1941 · page 10

REPORTS of dust storms—said to be the worst in 20 years—have been received from western districts during the past week…

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Settlers At Urana; Flooded Land Complaint

The Land · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 6

REFERENCE was made in the Legislative Assembly recently to the position of settlers on Lake Urana soldier settlement area who,…

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Deluge Of Fashion Footwear Swamps Local Market

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 September 1941 · page 1

Mystifying beyond words is the mass drive in civilian footwear that is now being made on Australia by British manufacturers. Retail shops are advertising shipments. At the same time…

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Lost "Enemy" For Hours In Storm

The Sun · Sunday 14 September 1941 · page 7

For three hours on the last night of the coastal exercises the "enemy" at sea escaped observation…

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"We Don't Want War"—Sensational Berlin Riot Storm Troopers Kill Many Demonstrators

Truth · Sunday 14 September 1941 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday (B.U.P. Exclusive).—Storm Troopers were called out to quell a sensational riot which occurred inside a Berlin cinema where a particularly gruesome war film was being screened…

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Storm In Assembly

The Sun · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 4

Bribery allegations by Mr. Davidson (Lab., Cobar) caused a storm in the Legislative Assembly…

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Pro's. 71 in Rain Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 10

In pouring rain, professional V. S. Richardson went round the St. Michael's golf course yesterday in 71--one under par…

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Rising Flood of U.S. Arms to Aid Britain to Include: -- One Factory: One Bomber Every Hour New York

The Sun · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 6

Discounting pessimism over the lag in Lend and Lease aid to Britain, Edward Flynn, "New York Post" commentator, to-day says: A giant Consolidated bomber every hour…

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Russians Flood Road to Slow Up Nazis

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 3

GERMAN ARMY motor trucks moving slowly along a road which was flooded, according to the German caption on the picture, when Soviet forces blew up a dam to slow the Nazi advance. SECTION OF RUSSIA'S famous Red Cavalry charges through crops towards German…

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Fierce Gale Leaves Havoc Trail Adelaide

The Sun · Friday 19 September 1941 · page 3

A 60-mile-an-hour gale which swept the Adelaide metropolitan area to-day unroofed houses, flattened hoardings, uprooted…

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Dust Storms in West Towns Suffer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 14

Severe dust storms weie blowing over many towns in the far west of New South Wales yesterday afternoon and last night…

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Severe Dust Storm Halts Desert Moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A communique issued from Cairo states that a severe duststorm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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Severe Dust Storm Halts Desert Moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A communique issued from Cairo states that a severe dust storm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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Severe Dust Storm Halts Desert Moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A communique issued from Cairo states that a severe duststorm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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Severe dust storm halts desert moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A communique issued from Cairo states that a severe dust storm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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