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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1943

685 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 35

Big Floods Menaced Townships

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 1

Towns and homesteads have been isolated, and miles of grazing land covered with water up to eight feet deep in one of the…

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Germans Forged Over Sangro Eighth Army's New Thrust In Italy Floods Hold Up Americans

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.--Vichy Radio says that attacks by the Eighth Army have forced German advanced units to fall back across the Sangro, on the Adriatic coast front in Italy…

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Butchers Report Flood of Bacon, Ham Orders

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 1

Many orders had been lodged with retailers since the announcement last week that Christmas bacon and ham would be released for civilians, the secretary of the Master Butchers' Association (Mr. T. A. Herbert) said today…

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Big Floods Menaced Townships

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 3

Towns and homesteads have been isolated, and miles of grazing land covered with water up to eight feet deep in one of the…

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Germans Forced Over Sangro Eighth Army's New Thrust In Italy Floods Hold Up Americans

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.--Vichy Radio says that attacks by the Eighth Army have forced German advanced units to fall back across the Sangro, on the Adriatic coast front in Italy…

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Big Floods Menaced Townships

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 1

Towns and homesteads have been isolated, and miles of grazing land covered with water up to eight feet deep in one of the…

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Butchers Report Flood of Bacon, Ham Orders

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 3

Many orders had been lodged with retailers since the announcement last week that Christmas bacon and ham would be released for civilians, the secretary of the Master Butchers' Association (Mr. T. A. Herbert) said today…

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Heavy Rain in Italy All Operations Hampered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 November 1943 · page 6

LONDON, Nov. 22 (A.A.P.).— Heavy rain fell over all battle areas in Italy yesterday, rendering movement difficult and…

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Two Rivers in Flood Waters Now Receding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 November 1943 · page 6

Flood waters of the McIntyre and Barwon Rivers are receding, and no damage has been reported…

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Berlin Defences Swamped Cyclone-like Wave of Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 November 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Nov. 24 (A.A.P.).— "This terror attack, carried out by strong forces, cruised fresh heavy damage in several…

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Struck by U.S. GENERAL Storm In America Over Incident In Army Hospital

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 November 1943 · page 4

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Lieut.-General George Patton, Commander of the U.S. Seventh Army, is believed to have struck more than one soldier…

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In the Flood Man in Difficulties

Nepean Times · Thursday 25 November 1943 · page 1

On Thursday last, at about 9 p.m., Private Robert Lee was walking to Werrington Railway. Station to catch a train. When he arrived at the creek…

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Mr. V. Flood Nagle

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 25 November 1943 · page 7

Mr. V. Flood Nagle, of Young-street, Albury, recently received the and news that his son, Val, had been killed in action. Val had…

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Storm Hits Lismore

The Sun · Friday 26 November 1943 · page 2

LISMORE, Friday.-- Shops and residences were heavily damaged and five persons injured in a…

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Monty Goes With Men Into Flooded Sangro

The Sun · Friday 26 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--General Montgomery today told how his men of the Eighth Army waded waistdeep through the icy waters of the Sangro River (Eastern Italy) to win a bridgehead on the north bank…

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Fierce Storms in North Heavy Hail at Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 November 1943 · page 11

LISMORE, Friday.—A fierce hailstorm, the heaviest for many years, struck the Lismore district late yesterday, shattering…

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The Mosley storm, and Morrison

The Sun · Sunday 28 November 1943 · page 3

The Mosley storm was no mere thunder on the political Left. It rolled right across the sky. The shower of protests grew heavy,…

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Shannon, Top-liner, Reaches Flood Brilliant Colt No Headache To Riddle Swamped Them All

Truth · Sunday 28 November 1943 · page 2

SHANNON'S got all the ingredients in the make-up of a top-liner. He simply outpointed his Kirkham Stakes rivals yesterday and put a paid to their account in such a way that they hadn't the semblance of an…

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Greyhound Back After The Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 November 1943 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--One of the State's best-known greyhounds, Banyena King, who became storm-frightened and…

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Greyhound Back After the Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 November 1943 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--One of the State's best-known greyhounds, Banyena King, who became storm-frightened and…

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