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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1942

604 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 31

Queensland Flood Scenes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 February 1942 · page 5

BUNDABERG UNDER WATER. Only the rooftops of some houses were visible when the Burnett River broke its banks during recent floods in Central Queensland. Top picture shows river front buildings partly submerged. Below: View…

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Churchill May Bow to Storm Big Cabinet Changes Now Appear Certain Defence Post Assistant

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--There is every reason to believe that within the next few days the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) will not only make certain changes in the War Cabinet, as suggested in Parliament, but that he will also appoint a Deputy-Prime Minister…

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Churchill May Bow to Storm Big Cabinet Changes Now Appear Certain Defence Post Assistant

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--There is every reason to believe that within the next few days the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) will not only make certain changes in the War Cabinet, as suggested in Parliament, but that he will also appoint a Deputy-Prime Minister…

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Churchill May Bow to Storm Big Cabinet Changes Now Appear Certain Defence Post Assistant

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--There is every reason to believe that within the next few days the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) will not only make certain changes in the War Cabinet, as suggested in Parliament, but that he will also appoint a Deputy-Prime Minister…

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Churchill May Bow to Storm Big Cabinet Changes Now Appear Certain Defence Post Assistant

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--There is every reason to believe that within the next few days the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) will not only make certain changes in the War Cabinet, as suggested in Parliament, but that he will also appoint a Deputy-Prime Minister…

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Churchill May Bow to Storm Major Changes In Cabinet Appear Now Beyond Doubt Assistant in Defence Post

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday.--There is every reason to believe that within the next few days the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) will not only make certain changes in the War Cabinet, as suggested in…

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Churchill May Bow to Storm Major Changes In Cabinet Appear Now Beyond Doubt Assistant in Defence Post

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday.--There is every reason to believe that within the next few days the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) will not only make certain changes in the War Cabinet, as suggested in…

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Climbs Pole To Send 100 Flood Telegrams

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Making his way through flood waters, the postmaster at Gayndah. (Mr. G, Gardiner) climbed a telegraph pole. tied himself…

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Tableland Tin Dredge Capsized By Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 12

DIRECTORS of Tableland Tin Dredging N. L. report that the company's No. 1 dredge capsized on Tuesday night, following an…

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Tableland Tin Dredge Capsized By Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 12

DIRECTORS of Tableland Tin Dredging N. L. report that the company's No. 1 dredge capsized on Tuesday night, following an…

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Cleaning Up After a Dust-storm 126

The Land · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 14

A tablespoon of kerosene poured on a hair broom keeps the dust from rising when sweeping thick dust from bare boards or from…

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Java's Calm Before the Coming Storm A.a.p. Special Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 5

BATAVIA, Feb. 19.—Java is now passing through a period of calm before the storm. There has been no further news from…

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Beaverbrook's Dramatic Exit Britain's Cabinet Re-Shuffle Churchill Bows Before Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--Mr. Churchill has bowed before the storm. He has done it. with prodigious dignity. He has done it before the House of Commons met. The most dramatic change in the War Cabinet…

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Beaverbrook's Dramatic Exit Britain's Cabinet Re-Shuffle Churchill Bows Before Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--Mr. Churchill has bowed before the storm. He has done it with prodigious dignity. He has done it before the House of Commons met. The most dramatic change in the War Cabinet…

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"Approaching Storm"

The Sun · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 2

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Mount Druitt STORM

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 4

A very heavy storm passed over this district last Friday afternoon, causing immense damage to property within a strip a few miles wide. Eighty-three…

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Rain and Gale Two Churches Damaged Many Roofs Lifted

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 1

A HEAVY stcrir, accompanied by a devastating gale that swept across a section of the Nepean district on Friday afternoon, February…

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Russians Blast Trapped Nazis with Shell Deluge Berlin Shows Alarm For Leningrad Front LONDON

The Sun · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 2

Russian artillery is pounding 90,000 Germans, remnants of the trapped 16th Army near Staraya Russa (140 miles south of Leningrad) with a deluge of shells. "It is a battle of extermination," declares Moscow…

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R.A.A.F. Raids Rabaul in Violent Storm Fierce Air War Over Pacific Holds Up Invasion Of Java

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 1

The air war against Japan is entering a new and more severe stage, says O. E. White, Daily Telegraph Port Moresby correspondent…

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Sunspot Storms Affect Radiophone

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.).--A giant sunspot yesterday caused magnetic storms which interrupted radiotelephone communication between…

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