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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1942

604 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 31

Loud Howls for A.J.C. Handicapper He Gave Auction Something to Hump Double Discussion Storm Centre

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 27 August 1942 · page 1

A BIG battery of criticism has been fired at A.J.C. handicapper, Mr. Fred Williams, for awarding the Brisbane horse and Doomben Newmarket winner Auction, 10.12 in the Epsom Handicap. This official…

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Storm Over Page's War Cabinet Post

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday.--An upheaval in Federal politics threatens to result from the Curtin Government's appointment of Sir Earle Page to the Advisory War Council and…

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Red Army Storms Streets of Rjev with Bayonet Axis Thrust For Stalingrad Held

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Soviet storm troops taking port in a 200-mile-wide advance west of Moscow are fighting their way through Rjev, 120 miles from Moscow, which the Germans, have been ordered to hold, "at all costs"…

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Red Army Storms Streets of Rjev with Bayonet Stalingrad's Fate Still In Balance

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Soviet storm troops taking part in a 200-mile-wide advance west of Moscow are fighting their way through Rjev, 120 miles from Moscow, which the Germans have been ordered to hold "at all costs"…

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Red Army Storms Streets of Rjev with Bayonet Axis Thrust For Stalingrad Held

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Soviet storm troops taking part in a 200-mile-wide advance west of Moscow are fighting their way through Rjev, 120 miles from Moscow, which the Germans have been ordered to hold "at all costs"…

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Red Army Storms Streets of Rjev with Bayonet Axis Thrust For Stalingrad Held

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Soviet storm troops faking part in a 200-mile-wide advance west of Moscow are fighting their way through Rjev, 120 miles from Moscow, which the Germans have been ordered to hold "at all costs"…

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Red Army Storms Streets of Rjev with Bayonet Axis Thrust For Stalingrad Held

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Soviet stoma troops taking port in a 200-mile-wide advance west of Moscow are fighting their way through Rjev, 120 miles from Moscow, which the Germans have been ordered to hold "at all costs"…

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Storm Havoc Auckland

The Sun · Saturday 29 August 1942 · page 2

Half the town of Kaitaia is in various stages of collapse, after being swept by a whirlwind…

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Quiet Before Desert Storm Western Desert

The Sun · Sunday 30 August 1942 · page 3

This waste of dun sand and hardy camelthorn is so quiet today that it is hard to believe it might at any moment be the scene of a new and bloody Battle for Egypt…

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Disastrous Flood In China CHUNGKING

The Sun · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 5

The most disastrous flood for a century has inundated 60,000 square miles in northern Anhwei,…

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Chinese Storm Nanchang

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 6

CHUNGKING, Aug. 31 (A.A.P.). —The Chinese High Command announced, that Chinese torces are storming the suburbs of…

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Great Flood in China Millions Homeless

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 6

CHUNGKING. Aug. 31 (A.A.P.) —The most disastrous flood in China for a century has inundated 60,000 square miles and 21…

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Thousands Die in China Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 3

CHUNGKING, Monday (A.A.P).--Floods inundating 60,000 square miles have made millions of Chinese homeless in…

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Gale Starts Raid Siren

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 5

A storm on Sunday night caused most of Wollongong to think that an air-raid was on police said yesterday. Blown down by the gale, an electric…

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Late News Storms Aided Rommel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 7

CAIRO, Sept. 1 (A.A.P.).— Field-Marshal Rommel transferred, supplies of ammunition, fuel, and other stores on…

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Storm Breaks Over Fight

The Sun · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 8

Proposal to match Vic Patrick--doing his road- work on the right--with Hockey Bennell at the…

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Storm in Labor Caucus Over Page Appointment

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--Sir Earle Page's appointment to the War Cabinet created a storm at the pre-sessional meeting of the Federal Labor Forty today…

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No Flood Warning Loss of Machinery and Vegetables

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND.—When heavy rain on the Upper Hunter recentlv paused a sudden lise-the liver lose 120 feet in p nicht near Maitland—…

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Lack of Flood Warning Leads To Loss

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 2

WHEN heavy rain on the Upper Hunter recently caused a sudden rise—the river rose 20-ft. in a night near Maitland—many farmers had their…

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Riverton's Run: in Full Flood Over Seven Winnipeg Trips in Three Yaralla Strides—whoa!

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 16

SHOWING marked improvement as a result of his run in the Hobartville Stakes, RIVERTON was the outstanding galloper at Randwick this morning. Though he only just defeated stablemate BARODA over seven…

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