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Floods & storms, 1944

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

Launch Party's Grim Ordeal Night-Long Battle With Gale Girls Aid Men in Wild Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 2

CLAD only in swimming costumes and trunks, four men, four women and a girl, adrift m a small launch, fought for nine hours to keep the boat…

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Launch Party's Grim Ordeal Night-Long Battle With Gale Girls Aid Men in Wild Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 2

CLAD only in swimming costumes and trunks, four men, four women and a girl, adrift in a small launch, fought for nine hours to keep the boat…

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Launch Party's Grim Ordeal Night-Long Battle With Gale Girls Aid Men in Wild Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 2

CLAD only in swimming costumes and trunks, four men, four women and a girl, adrift in a small launch, fought for nine hours to keep the boat…

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Launch Party's Grim Ordeal Night-Long Battle With Gale Girls Aid Men in Wild Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 2

CLAD only in swimming costumes and trunks, four men, four women and a girl, adrift in a small launch, fought for nine hours to keep the boat…

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Storm Experience and Parable

The Methodist · Saturday 30 December 1944 · page 5

The burning rays of the midday sun Smote incessant, through the dust-cloud dun. The traveller reined at a mountain foot, Beneath a grey gum, whose twisted root…

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Russian Troops Swarm Into Budapest Tanks Storm Nazi Defences In City

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Russian forces driving into Budapest (Hungarian capital) are capturing suburb after suburb, says the B.B.C. German troops have blown up bridges across…

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Monmouth Met Bets Gale But Blew Home in Race

Truth · Sunday 31 December 1944 · page 2

THOUGH crack jockey J. Thompson told trainer Maurice McCarten that Monmouth was unlucky to finish only third on Boxing Day, that colt had a gale behind him in betting on yesterday's Juvenile Stakes. He opened at 5/2 and 3/1, but it was possible to get 9/2 at one stage. He…

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