More Rain As Floods Swell
LONDON, Friday. -- The battle against flood- waters in many parts of Britain is still going on, and the situation in a number of districts is described as Critical…
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More Rain As Floods Swell
LONDON, Friday. -- The battle against floodwaters in many parts of Britain is still going on, and the situation in a number of districts is described as critical…
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LONDON, Friday. -- The battle against floodwaters in many parts of Britain is still going on, and life situation in a number of districts is described as critical…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Elizabeth Fights Gale
NEW YORK, Friday. -- The liner Queen Elizabeth arrived in New York today after fighting her way through one of the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dramatic Night Flight In Storm To Save Sick Lubra
DARWIN, Saturday.--A lubra and her half-caste baby are in Darwin hospital following a dramatic storm-tossed night flight to Darwin from a lonely Northern Territory cattle station. The lubra gave birth to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →McKELL Storm Refuses to Blow Over Chifley Must Now Know What His Blunder Will Cost Labor
REDFERN, a suburb of Sydney with more slums, wretchedness and mean streets than any like-sized area in the Commonwealth, has been lifted to national significance. For the man who kept it in its state of decay has been raised high above every other living Australian. He represented the deeps of human…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Contest Draws Flood Of Entries
Judging the flood of entries in the "Herald's" seventh "Find the Ball" contest will be completed this week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English Floods Falling; Trek In East
LONDON, March 21 (A.A.P.). — Slight falls in most of the flooded arcas of southern and central England…
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LONDON, Saturday,--Because of floods the Lincolnshire Handicap on March 26 will not be run over the straight mile but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Secret Tanks to Block Flood Gap
LONDON, Saturday.--An assault fleet of eight Neptune amphibious tanks crossed flooded fens at Earith (Cambridgeshire) last night in a dramatic bid to close a gap in the south bank of the Great Ouse…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The Australian Red Cross will aid British flood victims…
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LONDON, Friday.--The British Government today sent 500 reinforcements to assist troops who are trying to stem floods in southern Norfolk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Flood Peril Nears End
LONDON, Saturday.-- The flood position in Britain has improved., The Thames and other rivers have abated. WORST floods are in the Fen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New industrial storms brewing Week-end Rates As Vital Issue
INDUSTRIAL storm clouds are banking up heavily despite the damage strikes may do to Labor's State election prospects. The ACTU has called off the proposed national stoppage on May I, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britons blamed the atom-bomb for the blizzard and floods
'Britain's ordeal by weather gave rise this week to a crop of superstitions. There was a whispering campaign that the snow, cold and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain still battling floods LONDON
VIOLENT new flood outbreaks have brought fresh peril to many areas of England…
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British troops and German prisoners work side by side to close a 100-yard breach on Little Ouse River bank. Water, pouring through the gap, flooded thousands of acres of rich farmlands before the troops and prisoners blocked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jokes a washout Floods destroy comedian's gags
LONDON, Saturday. VETERAN Billy Russell-- the British Working Man of the musical halls,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →King Leaves Races Crowd Storms Judge's Box
LONDON, March 23 (A.A.P.). — The King and Queen left the King's Cup meeting at Greyville…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Pictures of Disastrous English Floods
TOP LEFT: A police patrol using a street telephone to report to headquarters in Bath, Somerset, while carrying out rescue work. The water at this stage was four feet deep in Lower Bristol Road. TOP RIGHT: An aerial view of flooded Weybridge, Surrey. LOWER LEFT: Members of the staff of Dr. Barnardo's Homes, Woodford Bridge, Essex, taking delivery of water from an emergency tanker-truck. LOWER RIGHT: Soldiers and police loading food and taking stranded civilians into an army lorry at Maidenhead…
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