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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1945

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Brilliant golf round in gale

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 22 July 1945 · page 32

Flight-Lieutenant Hugh Thomas (15) played an amazing round in yesterday's gale at New Metropolitan Golf Club…

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FILMS: Guy K. Austin's budget from Hollywood Cops try to arrest gangster film flood HOLLYWOOD

The Sun · Sunday 22 July 1945 · page 3

STEADY increase in gangster films on the American screens has brought a rather startling but significant outburst from the Los Angeles Police Employees' Union…

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Corpses Clog Berlin's Flooded Underground

The Sun · Thursday 26 July 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.-- Hundreds of corpses clogging a three- mile section of flooded subway in the heart of Berlin were found by German divers. They refused to continue work…

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Port[?]it of the Author? "The Journal of [?] Russell," by Storm [?]— Macmillan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 July 1945 · page 8

ONE of the most distinguished of contemporary women writers—at any rate in England —Storm Jameson, has here…

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9 Air Bases Recaptured Chinese storm into South China cities CHUNGKING

The Sun · Sunday 29 July 1945 · page 2

CHINESE have entered Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi province, and the ninth former US air base to be recaptured from the Japs. Announcing this success, the Chinese High…

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Threat to Flood High Court Bench Minister Defends Powers Of Parlt

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 July 1945 · page 7

"We cannot put the present High Court judges out of office, but we can odd to the bench men who are sympathetic to the people", the Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) said…

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Heavy Rain and Cold Forecast

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 July 1945 · page 3

Heavy rain and strong winds are likely over the State within the next 24 hours, said Acting-Divisional Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) today…

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Sydney Shivers In Sudden Gale

The Sun · Wednesday 1 August 1945 · page 3

Lunch-hour crowds shivered and clutched their hats when a 40-mph gale struck Sydney soon after noon today…

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Reynaud Ordered Surrender Storm At Trial; Weygand Says

The Sun · Wednesday 1 August 1945 · page 7

PARIS, Wednesday.-- General Weygand (Allied C-in-C in France m 1940) said at the Petain treason…

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Wayside Musings The Storm Sydney V. Austin

The Methodist · Saturday 4 August 1945 · page 5

I had been reading the story of that old patriarch Jacob, and the memory of his pathetic cry, "All these things are against me" remained with me. I could not help thinking what a very human old man he…

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The Tide At Flood

Truth · Sunday 5 August 1945 · page 3

THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Murray Stream was full of running and at real flood when he came home in the Green Hills yesterday. Riderless Swan River (unofficially) was second, so was Accession…

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Digger's 'Home' Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 August 1945 · page 7

PRIVATE K. G. KIBE, of Richmond, Victoria, digs a gutter to drain water away from his tent on Bougainville where heavy…

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Wordy Gales Shake Old Hospital

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 August 1945 · page 11

AS you pass down Sydney's widest street, named Macquarie after the governor of early colonial days, you cannot but notice two old-fashioned facades on the eastern side…

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Residents Leave Flooded Town

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 August 1945 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—Serious flooding—in some places the worst for 25 years—has occurred in Canterbury Province. Many places are…

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Strange But True Heroine of Cyclone

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 August 1945 · page 19

A MONUMENT in the Thursday Island cemetery, erected by the Royal Life Saving Society, commemorates the…

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Men blown 18 miles to sea in S-W gale

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 August 1945 · page 7

Two men who were blown 18 miles to sea off Newcastle on Friday in a 26ft. boat had to jettison gear and boat fittings to save the vessel from foundering during a storm…

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The Job Before Us When The Storm Of Peace Breaks

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 8

JAPANESE reluctance to admit formally their first defeat in 2000 years is understandable…

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War Agricultural Committee Supplies Available to Replace Flood Damage Mr N. L. Clarke, hon. secretary of Nepean War Agricultural Committee, writes:—

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 August 1945 · page 4

We have received advice that the following items will be made available to replace flood damage only: Galvanised barb wire, galvanised iron, plain…

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Apres le Deluge

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 17 August 1945 · page 8

Dans un de [?] poèmes en prose, "Apres le deluge." Rimbaud adopte un point de vue excessivement pessimiste. vinon cynique. Leg étais se dressent…

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Floods Benefit Lucerne Crops

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 August 1945 · page 16

WARM weather, following recent floods, has been responsible for one of the best lucerne cuts seen for many years in the Grafton area the…

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