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Floods & storms, 1944

646 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 33

Storm Started by Red Peace Story Dying Out

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--The storm created by Pravda's publication of a story that two "prominent English personalities" had conferred recently with the German Foreign…

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Storm Started by Red Peace Story Dying Out

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--The storm created by Pravda's publication of a story that two "prominent English personalities" had conferred recently with the German Foreign…

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The 'Pravda' storm in a samovar

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1944 · page 2

Of all diplomats in Washing toil, least excited this week over the Pravda peace negotiations story was Russia's 35-yenrs-old…

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Storms Quell Bushfire Menace to 150 Homes

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 4

WOY WOY, Monday. -- Drenching rain saved more than 150 homes in the Woy Woy district from probable destruction by fire as the result of an extensive bushfire on Blackwall Mountain…

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Storms Quell Bushfire Menace to 150 Homes

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 4

WOY WOY, Monday.--Drenching rain saved more than 150 homes in the Woy Woy district from probable destruction by fire as the result of an extensive bushfire on Blackwall Mountain…

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Storms Quell Bushfire Menace to 150 Homes

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 4

WOY WOY, Monday.--Drenching rain saved more than 150 homes in the Woy Woy district from probable destruction by fire as the result of an extensive bushfire on Blackwall Mountain…

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Storms Quell Bush Fire Menace to 150 Homes

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 4

WOY WOY, Monday.-- Drenching rain saved more than 150 homes in the Woy Woy district from probable destruction by fire as the result of an extensive bushfire on Blackwall Mountain…

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Art Storm Unabated

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 4

Following the storm of protest against awarding the Archibald Prize to William Dobell's unorthodox portrait of…

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Art Storm May Lead to Resignation

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

FOLLOWING the storm of protest against awarding the Archibald Prize to William Dobell's unorthodox portrait of Mr. Joshua Smith,…

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Art Storm May Lead to Resignation

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

FOLLOWING the storm of protest against awarding the Archibald Prize to William Dobell's unorthodox portrait of Mr. Joshua Smith,…

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Art Storm May Lead to Resignation

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 7

FOLLOWING the storm of protest against awarding the Archibald Prize to William Dobell's unorthodox portrait of Mr. Joshua Smith,…

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Grigg’s Ban On ‘DW’ Men Raises Storm

Tribune · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON.—The “Daily Mirror” and “News-Chronicle” editorially condemns the “indefensible” ban placed on “Daily Worker” war correspondents by the Secretary of War, Sir James Grigg…

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New Invasion Nerve-storm

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--A new wave of invasion nerves is sweeping Germany. Alarmed at war weariness among the people, newspapers are warning all "false…

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Flood and Fire Warnings Oppressive Heat in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 10

The Divisional Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, yesterday issued a bushfire warning to certain centres in the southern part of…

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Floods Threaten Lismore

The Sun · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 3

LISMORE, Saturday. --Flood waters from the Rirhmond River, which was 20ft, above the…

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Horseman killed in flooded river; towns threatened LISMORE

The Sun · Sunday 30 January 1944 · page 2

ATTEMPTING to cross a flooded low-level bridge over the northern arm of the Tweed River near Chillingham, 12 miles from Murwillumbah today, a horseman was drowned…

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Flood threat to homes

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 30 January 1944 · page 3

LISMORE, Sat.--Home owners and shopkeepers have removed belongings from premises threatened by the…

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Floods Passing in North 20 Inches of Rain at Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 4

Danger from floods which threatened settlements on the Richmond and Tweed Rivers on Saturday had passed last night…

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Flood Danger Ended

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 7

Reports from north-east New South Wales last night indicated that the danger of floods had passed. Lismore police said the Richmond…

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Flood Of Arms For MacArthur Sought

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.--Like a voice crying in the wilderness. Senator Dennis Chavez (Dem., New Mexico) in the Senate yesterday demanded that planes and guns "by the thousands" be. sent to General MacArthur so that he could…

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