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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1947

1,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 85

Freak Storm Causes Havoc

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 2

MANILA, Saturday. -- A freak typhoon swept the central Philippine Islands last night and caused extensive damage. AT least six persons are…

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Big Boats in Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 8

Big craft competing in the Cruising Yacht Club's ocean race to Long Reef ran into a heavy…

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Big Boats in Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 8

Big craft competing in the Cruising Yacht Club's ocean race to Long Reef ran into a heavy…

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Freak Storm Causes Havoc

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 2

MANILA, Saturday. -- A freak typhoon swept the central Philippine Islands last night and caused extensive damage. AT least six persons are…

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Ocean Yachts Sail Into Storm Tack to Seal for Good Wind

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 9

Big craft competing in the Cruising Yacht 1 Club's ocean race to Long Reef ran into a heavy rainstorm when off Manly at about 1.20 p.m and put to sea in an endeavor to pick up…

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Big Storm Damage in Philippines Ship Sunk; Others Go Aground at Least Six People Drown

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 6

MANILA, Saturday. -- A freak typhoon swept the central Philippine Islands last night and caused extensive damage. AT least six persons are…

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Big Storm Damage in Philippines Ship Sunk; Others Go Aground at Least Six People Drown

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 6

MANILA, Saturday. -- A freak typhoon swept the central Philippine Islands last night and caused extensive damage. AT least six persons are…

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Four Novels From The Flood Of Fiction

The Sun · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 4

WHEN simplicity goes with good writing and originality of treatment in a crime-story a pleasant surprise is in store for the reader. The great mass of crime-fiction lacks such qualities, and makes up for the lack with stereotyped excitement and complications…

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Dam Burst Floods Town

Truth · Sunday 2 November 1947 · page 2

LISBON, Saturday.—People climbed on to church steeples and hung on to trees to escape drowning when the Serrapenda…

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Every time it rains this family of six is flooded out

The Sun · Sunday 2 November 1947 · page 5

Although complaints have been made every week for two years about the leaky roof of a house in Glebe, which the tenants say is owned by the Church of England, water…

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Peru Quake Flood Havoc

The Sun · Monday 3 November 1947 · page 7

LIMA, Sunday. -- Red Cross planes rushed relief supples today to Central Peru, where floods, following yesterday's…

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Boy Swept To Death In Flooded River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 November 1947 · page 1

A boy and a married couple were drowned in New South Wales rivers yesterday, and there were several…

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Floods Follow Earthquake

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 November 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (A.A.P.) —Red Cross planes rushed relief supplies to-day to central Peru, where floods following an…

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Gale Gave MP's Tough Air Trip

The Sun · Tuesday 4 November 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA. Tuesday. --Violent winds gave members of Parliament returning to Canberra by…

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Victorian Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Plane services were interrupted, ships were buffeted, and skiers were snowed in at two Hotham chalets by a fierce…

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Melbourne Lashed by Storms

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Plane services were interrupted, skiers and cars snowbound, and a…

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Melbourne Lashed by Storms

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Plane services were interrupted, skiers and cars snowbound, and a…

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Melbourne Lashed by Storms

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Plane services were interrupted, skiers and cars snowbound, and a…

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Ketch Survives Violent Storms

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 5

DURBAN, Wednesday. -- The Sydney ketch, Kathleen, which is on a world cruise, reached Durban yesterday after encountering violent electric storms…

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Ketch Survives Violent Storms

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 5

DURBAN, Wednesday. -- The Sydney ketch, Kathleen, which is on a world cruise, reached Durban yesterday after encountering violent electric storms…

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