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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1943

685 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 35

Suspended Over Raging Flood

The Sun · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 3

Suspended by a cable a few feet above the raging Nepean River, an officer of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission risked his life to take meter tests during the recent floods…

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Dortmund's Agony by Fires and Flood Reports Of Rebellion At Cassel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday,--The German industrial city of Dortmund is still in a state of dreadful chaos by fire and wafer after the record R.A.F. raid on…

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Flood Damage Oyer £100.000 Four Water Board Dams Run Over

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 7

STORM waters in most of the flooded areas are subsiding. They have left a trail of damage estimated at more than £100,000. Recent rains have filled four of the Water…

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Flood Damage Exceeds £100,000 Danger Persists Around Forbes Sydney's Water Storage Record

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 2

STORM waters in most of the flooded areas of New South Wales are subsiding. They have left a trail of damage estimated at more than £100,000…

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Flood Damage Over £100,000 Four Water Board Dams Run Over

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 7

STORM waters in most of the flooded areas are subsiding. They have left a frail of damage estimated at more than £100,000. Recent rains have filled four of the Water…

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Flood Damage Oyer £100,000 Four Water Board Dams Run Over

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 7

STORM wafers in most of the flooded areas are subsiding. They have left a trail of damage estimated at more than £100,000. Recent rains have filled four of the Water…

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Flood Damage Oyer £100,000 Four Water Board Dams Run Over

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 7

STORM westers in most of the flooded areas are subsiding. They have left a trail of damage estimated at more than £100,000. Recent rains have filled four of the Water…

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Flood Damage District Adventures Houses, Roads, Fences, Etc., Suffer

Nepean Times · Thursday 27 May 1943 · page 1

EXTENSIVE damage to public and [?] [?] property was caused by the [?]devastating flood that came to the district last week…

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Long Trek In Floods

The Sun · Thursday 27 May 1943 · page 1

Marooned by floodwaters while holidaying at a farmhouse. Mrs. W. Dowsett, of Mosman, and her nine-year-old daughter Jan, helped to construct a makeshift bridge of planks over the Cox River on their way home. They…

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Damage by Flood Rains. Extensive in St. George

The Propeller · Thursday 27 May 1943 · page 3

In common with other areas around Sydney, the St. George and Sutherland Shire district has suffered considerable damage as a result of…

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Woman Treks Through Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 May 1943 · page 4

A woman and her nine-year-old daughter had to help build Bridges and make roads to get jack from the Cox River…

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Simspot Eruption Caused Heavy Rain

The Land · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 15

CROHAMHURST OBSERVATORY, Qld.—A southern sunspot group came suddenly into view and not, as in the ordinary manner, carried on to…

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Fortresses Defy Storm in Attack on Sicily Battle With 50 Fighters

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Flying Fortresses beat their way through a 60-m.p.h. gale yesterday to bomb Sicily's chief airfield at Comiso…

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Nazi Version of Ruhr FloodRuin

The Sun · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--First published German account of the Ruhr Valley floods, caused by the RAF bursting the Mohne and Eder dams, is written guardedly and specifies no…

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Swam Flooded River with Food

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 4

A man swam across the flooded Wollondilly River to take provisions to people trapped by recent floods in the Burragorang…

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German Account of Flood Disaster

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 9

LONDON, May 28 (A.A.P.).— The "Frankfurter Zeitung" has published a guarded account of the flood disasters which…

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Troups Ficht Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 9

WASHiNGUON Mav 28 (A.A.P.).— Ihe War Deportment states that 37,000 soldiers have been diverted from combat training to fight the floods in…

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Troops Save Flood Victims

The Sun · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Friday.--Nearly 40,000 troops were rushed from training camps for rescue work in seven States along the…

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Forbes Not in Flood Danger

The Sun · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 3

Although the country around Forbes is still in a marshy condition. there is no reason to expect further flooding, the…

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Floods in Big Areas

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

It is expected that a large area of the Condobolin district will be inundated when a huge volume of flood water down the…

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