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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1942

604 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 31

Southern Rivers Nearing Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Flooding of all low-lying areas along the Murray and Goulburn Rivers is anticipated…

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Southern Rivers Nearing Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 2

A,MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Flooding of all low-lying areas along the Murray and Goulburn Rivers is anticipated…

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Need For Wireless Flood Warnings

The Land · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

BECAUSE no flood warning was issued, for security reasons, when heavy rain fell recently on the Upper Hunter, and the river, rose suddenly,…

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Confetti "Snow Storm" for Marching Diggers

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 6 September 1942 · page 17

A.I.F. MEN marching in the city yesterday through drifts of paper confetti and streamers…

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Union Storm Over 'Leave It to Churchill'

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 September 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Monday. -- Stormy debate is expected at the Trade Union congress at Blackpool on Wednesday, when an emergency…

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Union Storm Over 'Leave It to Churchill'

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 September 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Monday. -- Stormy debate is expected at the Trade Union congress at Blackpool on Wednesday, when an emergency…

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Union Storm Over 'Leave It to Churchill'

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 September 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Monday. -- Stormy debate is expected at the Trade Union congress at Blackpool on Wednesday, when an emergency…

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A Trickle... A Flood... Or What?

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 September 1942 · page 8

ONE of our Canberra correspondents draws attention on another page to conflicting statements about…

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Battered Stalingrad Waits for Storm Axis Plans New Drive

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 September 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.--Field Marshal von Bock, baffled at his failure to capture Stalingrad, Soviet steel city, in a series of fierce onslaughts…

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Storms Made By Man

The World's News · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 12

A £1,000,000 laboratory in which the most violent weather conditions can be manufactured is being installed on the shores of Lake…

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Floods Cut Off Burma Refugees

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday. -- Fifteen hundred refugees from Burma are marooned in North Assam, says the Evening Standard Calcutta…

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HOLLYWOOD: Famous Lillian Gish ("Orphans of the Storm" Star of Silent Days) In Secret Romance Hollywood

The Sun · Sunday 13 September 1942 · page 8

BELOVED star of the Silent Screen, Lillian Gish, is believed…

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Storm Predicted Over Vichy Law

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- The French are expected to react violently to the new Vichy labor concription law…

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Craft Loose in Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 1

PLEASURE LAUNCHES AND YACHTS were extensively damaged when they broke from their moorings during yesterday's gale. Lashed by a 55-m.p.h. wind, they were battered against the sea wall at Rushcutters Bay…

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Craft Loose in Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 1

PLEASURE LAUNCHES AND YACHTS were extensively damaged when they broke from their moorings during yesterday's gale. Lashed by a 55-m.p.h. wind, they were battered against the sea wall at Rushcutters Bay…

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Craft Loose in Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 1

PLEASURE LAUNCHES AND YACHTS were extensively damaged when they broke from their moorings during yesterday's gale. Lashed by a 55-m.p.h. wind, they were battered against the sea wall at Rushcutters Bay…

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Craft Loose in Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 1

PLEASURE LAUNCHES AND YACHTS were extensively damaged when they broke from their moorings during yesterday's gale. Lashed by a 55-m.p.h. wind, they were battered against the sea wall at Rushcutters Bay…

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Pleasure Craft Loose in Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 1

PLEASURE LAUNCHES AND YACHTS were extensively damaged when they broke from their moorings during yesterday's gale. Lashed by a 55-m.p.h wind, they were battered against the sea wall at Rush cutters Bay…

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Storm Havoc in Sydney

The Sun · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 3

This roof was blown off a factory at Leichhardt during heavy wind yesterday and lodged on an adjacent cottage…

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Yachts Ashore In Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 3

RECENTLY reconditioned for the opening of the yachting season, these craft were driven ashore at Double Bay by the…

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