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Floods & storms, 1943

685 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 35

Easing Off in Flood Districts

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 2

Reports this morning from districts where floods have occurred indicate that the position is easier, although many…

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Trail of ruin as floodwaters recede

The Sun · Sunday 23 May 1943 · page 2

FLOODWATERS in various parts of NSW are subsiding, leaving trails of ruin behind them. Stock was lost in some districts, and vegetable crops were destroyed in others…

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200,000 Cauliflowers Lost in Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 May 1943 · page 5

Losses of vegetables in the Windsor district have been particularly heavy following recent flooding…

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Floods Easing in Country

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 4

In country areas flooded last week rivers are returning to normal levels and communications are being opened up with…

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Floods Possible on the Coast Bureau Gives Warning Vegetable Crop Badly Damaged

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 5

The Weather Bureau today issued a warning that floodings were possible over areas on the New South Wales coast extending from the Shoalhaven River in the south to the Macleay…

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Floods Possible on the Coast Bureau Gives Warning Vegetable Crop Badly Damaged

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 5

THE Weather Bureau today issued a warning that floodings were possible over coastal areas extending from the Shoalhaven River in the south to the Macleay in the north…

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Floods Possible on the Coast Bureau Gives Warning Vegetable Crop Badly Damaged

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 5

THE Weather Bureau today issued a warning that floodings were possible over coastal areas extending from the Shoalhaven River in the south to the Macleay in the north…

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Floods Possible on the Coast Bureau Gives Warning Vegetable Crop Badly Damaged

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 5

THE Weather Bureau today issued a warning that floodings were possible over coastal areas extending from the Shoalhaven River in the south to the Macleay in the north…

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Floods Possible on the Coast Bureau Gives Warning Vegetable Crop Badly Damaged

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 5

THE Weather Bureau today issued a warning that floodings were possible over coastal areas extending from the Shoalhaven River in the south to the Macleay in the north…

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Heavy Rain at Week-end Flood Danger Now Passing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 7

Further recent heavy rain in Sydney was a continuation of the storm which began on May 14, and registrations for a week…

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Treasure Hunt After Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 4

SEARCHING Manly Beach for treasure trove alter recent storms: Michael Murphy (nearest camera) and Les Reilly and his son, Tom. Murphy is holding a pair of porcelain vases which he found, together with £2 in coins…

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Flood Losses in U.s.a. Mount

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 5

NEW.YORK, May 24 (A.A.P.). —Loss of property in the worst flood in the Middle West for many years mounted as waters…

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No Britons Killed in Dam Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 5

LONDON, May 24 (A.A.P.).—The War Office announced to-day that, in reply to an inquiry addressed to the protecting Power, the German High…

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Boat Takes Food to Flood-bound Houses

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 5

Farms and boarding-houses in the lower Burragorang Valley are still isolated by floods. The only communication, with Maxwell's and King's houses has been by boat…

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Vast Floods in U.S. 125,000 Homeless

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 4

NEW YORK, Monday.--Floods in five midwestern States have left 125,000 homeless and…

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R.A.F's Heaviest Attack 2000 Tons Of Bombs On Flooded Ruhr City; 38 Planes Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--The R.A.F. lost night struck a terrific blow at the big German industrial city of Dortmund, which was flooded when the Mohne dam was…

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Areas Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 5

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Record Bomb Load on Flooded Dortmund First 100,000 Tons Hit Nazis

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON Tuesday .-Thirty-five tons of bombs a minute went crashing down on flooded Dortmund early on Monday morning when the R.A.F. staged the heaviest attack of the whole war. In all 2000 tons of explosives…

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Flooded Rivers Forbes Families Leave Homes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 6

Six families in the Forbes district evacuated their homes temporarily during recent floods along the Lachlan River…

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Dam Floods Affected Tactics From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 7

LONDON, May 25.—While early to-day a thick pall of smoke rose over Dortmund after the heaviest air attack of the war,…

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