Hungry Towns Fight Floods for Food
Floods and the month old rail strike have combined to cause a desperate food shortage in many Queensland towns. Townsfolk themselves are taking…
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Floods Aid Q'land Strikers Famine Fear In Country
BRISBANE, Tuesday. -- Floods have come to the aid of the Queensland railway strikers in their effort to starve the State…
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Flood waters from the Lachlan River have in some eases caused farmers to leave off harvesting wheat again in the Young district…
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TOWNSVILLE, Friday.--Road Transport north of Townsville is floodbound by the Herbert River at…
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Cyclone which last week hit Western Australia and caused tremendous damage was a meteorological freak…
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BRISBANE, Friday.— Food supplies are dwindling in some north Queensland towns isolated by the floods…
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NEW YORK, Friday. -- Argentina has threatened to use forte to back up…
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THE pale, ailing little priest prepared for his speech as usual, by spending four on five hours in concentrated prayer. This time, he fainted as…
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MELBOURNE, Sat.--Selection tonight of the Australian team for the London Olympic Games provoked an uproar in the committee room. The federation considered the qualifications of the 73 athletes nominated and pruned the team down to 34…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—Northern floodwaters, which menaced homes, isolated towns and dislocated…
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ADELAIDE, Sat. -- A T.A.A. plane would take food to Tennant Creek on Monday to relieve flood victims,…
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BRISBANE, Sat. -- A party of drovers swam their horses out of the floodbound town of Thargomindah today in an attempt to get food for the…
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MIAMI, Monday.--Well-known jockey Albert Snider and two others have been missing in an outboard motor boat since…
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MIAMI, Monday.--Well-known jockey Albert Snider and two others have been missing in an outboard motor boat since…
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MIAMI, Monday.--Well-known jockey Albert Snider and two others have been missing in an outboard motor boat since…
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The belief became widespread in February that the peak of investment prices had been reached,…
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PERTH, Friday.--A cyclone struck the north-west coast between Broome and Port Hed-land early today…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. --A complete blackout of all radio contact with Noumea has followed…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. --A complete blackout of all radio contact with Noumea has followed…
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Nearly 5000 people, waiting for Bondi Surf carnival to begin yesterday afternoon had to…
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