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Floods & storms, 1943

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Defeatism Sweeps Over Germany Storm-Troops Take Control Morale Totters Under Bombings

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 November 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--Don't be misled by the period of the now apparent "lull" in the news elsewhere than from the Russian and Italian fronts…

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Defeatism Sweeps Over Germany Storm-Troops Take Control Morale Totters Under Bombings

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 November 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--Don't be misled by the period of the now apparent "lull" in the news elsewhere than from the Russian and Italian fronts…

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Defeatism Sweeps Over Germany Storm-Troops Take Control Morale Totters Under Bombings

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 November 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--Don't be misled by the period of the now apparent "lull" the news elsewhere than from the Russian and Italian fronts…

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Defeatism Sweeps Over Germany Storm-Troops Take Control Morale Totters Under Bombings

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 November 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--Don't be misled by the period of the now apparent "lull" in the news elsewhere than from the Russian and Italian fronts…

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Storm Of Bombs, Then Invasion

The Sun · Wednesday 10 November 1943 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday. -- Britain's Bomber Chief (Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris) and…

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Loss by Flood Gravel Company Affected

Nepean Times · Thursday 11 November 1943 · page 4

The devastating flood, of last May very adversely affected the finances of the Emu and Prospect Gr[?]vel and Road Metal Co., Ltd., for the year…

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Red Army Storms Jitomir, Cuts Vital German Rail Link

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.--The Red Army has captured Jitomir, big rail town 70 miles east of the Polish border. Its capture has robbed the Germans of the use of the…

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Russians Take Jitomir by Storm Nazis' "Major Calamity" Vital North-South Railway Cut From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 November 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Nov. 14.—Red Army forces yesterday captured the important city of Jitomir. and are now astride the vital Leningrad-Odessa railway. London commentators agree that this is a major…

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Troops Drowned in Sea Rescue Entire Crew Saved From Ship Driven Aground In Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 9

Thirty Australian soldiers saved all 62 men of the crew of a 9000-ton Allied ship which ran aground in heavy seas near Shellharbor, on the New South Wales coast…

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Storm Hits Town: 14in. Of Rain

The Sun · Wednesday 17 November 1943 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Southport, popular surfing resort, suffered damage estimated at thousands of pounds, in a…

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Ice Convoy Reaches Canada After One of the Bitterest Atlantic Storms of the War

Construction · Wednesday 17 November 1943 · page 3

Warships and merchant ships of an Atlantic convoy reached an East Canadian port entirely sheathed in ice and snow after…

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Heavy Rain on North Coast Tweed May Flood Slightly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 6

Heavy rain fell on the North Coast during the week ended 9 a.m. yesterday. The highest total was 732 points at Coff's…

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Mud, Storms in Italy 'Major Opponents'

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 6

FIFTH ARMY FRONT, Nov. 16. —In jagged mountain positions on the centre of this front spearheads of the Allied and German…

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Storm Damage in Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Heavy thunderstorms with torrential rain caused thousands of pounds' worth of damage in south-east Queensland…

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Goods Train Derailed Terrifie Storms Near Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 4

Four terrific thunderstorms between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. in the Grafton district yesterday caused floods which damaged a…

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Flood Victims Spent Night Of Terror

The Sun · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 2

A night of terror in that open was spent by people driven from home by one of the…

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Heavy Flood Damage, Stock Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 5

GRAFTON, Wednesday.--Residents were driven from their homes, stock was drowned, and serious damage done to crops and…

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North Coast Gets Some Heavy Rain This Week

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 November 1943 · page 11

VERY heavy rains fell on the North Coast this week, Coff's Harbor had the highest recording with 732 points. Several other…

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Calm in Lebanon May Be Prelude to Second Storm

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 November 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Beirut, capital of Lebanon, has returned to normal after the riots which broke out yesterday week when the French National Committee dissolved Parliament and arrested the constitutional leaders. SHOPS have reopened and…

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Calm in Lebanon May Be Prelude to Second Storm

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 November 1943 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Beirut, capital of Lebanon, has returned to normal after the riots which broke out yesterday week when the French National Committee dissolved Parliament and arrested the constitutional leaders. SHOPS have reopened and…

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