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Floods & storms, 1947

1,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 85

Floods Halt Rioting In Punjab Area

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 9

NEW DELHI, Monday. --Torrential rain and flooding of large areas of the Punjab have ended communal rioting in some districts. THE flood damage is expected to…

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Floods Halt Rioting In Punjab Area

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 9

NEW DELHI, Monday. --Torrential rain and flooding of large areas of the Punjab have ended communal rioting in some districts. THE flood damage is expected to…

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Flood Halt Rioting In Punjab Area

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 9

NEW DELHI, Monday. --Torrential rain and flooding of large areas of "the Punjab have ended communal rioting in some districts. THE flood damage is expected to…

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Floods Halt Rioting In Punjab Area

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 9

NEW DELHI, Monday. --Torrential rain and flooding of large areas of the Punjab have ended communal rioting in some districts. THE flood damage is expected to…

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Snow, Heavy Rain Hampers Search Faint Hope for Missing Fliers

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Heavy rain and snow are hampering land parties trekking through desolate mountain country south of Mt. Kosciusko in a final search for two fliers…

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Snow, Heavy Rain Hampers Search Faint Hope for Missing Fliers

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Heavy rain and snow are hampering Band parties trekking through desolate mountain country south of Mt. Kosciusko in a final search for two fliers…

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Snow, Heavy Rain Haimpers Search Faint Hope for Missing Fliers

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Heavy rain and snow are hampering land pa tries trekking through desolate mountain country south of Mt. Kosciusko in a final search for two fliers…

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Snow, Heavy Rain Hampers Search Faint Hope for Missing Fliers

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Heavy rasa and snow are hampering Band parties trekking through desolate mountain country south of Mt. Kosciusko in a final search for two fliers…

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Floods, Disease Add To India's Death-Roll

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.--Spreading disease, starvation and floods will increase the Punjab death-roll this week. Monsoonal rains have flooded…

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Damage by Gale Coast Suffers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 September 1947 · page 3

A cale that reached a force of more than 50 miles an hour in some parts of the State yesterday caused…

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Town Swept By Flood

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The worst floods in the history of Bordertown, on the Victorian border, have flooded the main…

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Town Swept By Flood

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The worst floods in the history of Bordertown, on the Victorian border, have flooded the main…

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Rioters Storm Maharajah's Palace; 1 Killed

The Sun · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday.--A rioting mob yesterday tried to storm the palace of the Maharajah of Mysore in Mysore City (Southern India)…

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Novel of the Week The verge of greatness CYCLONE, by Vance Palmer. Sydney: Angus and Robertson

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 20

THIS is a very good novel, good enough, in fact, to make any reader who cares at all about such…

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Telegram deluge on bank plan exhausts P.O. men CANBERRA

The Sun · Sunday 7 September 1947 · page 9

CANBERRA Post Office operators were at the point of exhaustion today as an avalanche of telegrams from all over Australia continued to descend on them…

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Floodlight Football

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 September 1947 · page 32

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--Under powerful floodlights Rugby Union and Soccer matches will be played tonight as part of the 150th…

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Storm Likely Oyer Doubles Restrictions

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 September 1947 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Vigorous protests from doubles bookmakers are expected against the decision yesterday by a conference…

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U.s. Plan to Check Storm with Dry-ice

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 September 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.).--U.S. scientists are preparing to break up a hurricane by bombarding if with dry-ice from a plane. Dr. Irving Langmuir, noted…

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Violent Gales In Two States: Damage Heavy

The Sun · Monday 15 September 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Shipping has been almost halted by winds which reached 70 miles an hour early today. Thousands of pounds of damage is widespread…

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Storm Clouds Over Canierhury

The Sun · Monday 15 September 1947 · page 14

If a verbal dressing-down can win a grand final, Canterbury-Bankstown will have the edge on Balmain next Saturday. The Canterbury men are due…

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