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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 61

Flood Menace

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Saturday.--An atomic energy plant is menaced by the latest Columbia River flood…

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Flood Menace

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Saturday.--An atomic energy plant is menaced by the latest Columbia River flood…

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Storm Over Test Moves

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 1

TRENT BRIDGE, Monday. -- Tactics employed by the rival captains, Bradman and Yardley, in the first cricket Test indicate that the series will…

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Storm Over "Bumpers" in Test Hoots And Cat Calls For Miller Bitterness Creeps in

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 2

TRENT BRIDGE, Monday. -- Tactics employed by the rival captains, Bradman and Yardley, in the first cricket Test indicate that the series will…

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Storm Over "Bumpers" in Test Hoots And Cat Calls For Miller Bitterness Creeps in

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 2

TRENT BRIDGE, Monday. -- Tactics employed by the rival captains, Bradman and Yardley, in the first cricket Test indicate that the series will…

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Storm Over "Bumpers" in Test Hoots And Cat Calls For Miller Bitterness Creeps in

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 2

TRENT BRIDGE, Monday. -- Tactics employed by the rival captains. Brad man and Yardley, in the first cricket Test indicate that the series will…

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Storm Over "Bumpers" in Test Hoots And Cat Calls For Miller Bitterness Creeps in

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 2

TRENT BRIDGE, Monday. -- Tactics employed by the rival captains; Bradman and Yardley, in the first cricket Test indicate that the series will…

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Storm Over "Bumpers" in Test Hoots And Cat Calls For Miller BITTERNESS " Creeps in

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 2

TRENT BRIDGE, Monday. -- Tactics employed by the rival captains, Brad man and Yardley, in the first cricket Test indicate that the series will…

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Fear of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 5

WARSAW, Monday. -- The River Vistula is rising rapidly and Warsaw is threatened with extensive floods…

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Heavy Storms In Britain

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).-- After the hottest night this year violent thunderstorms broke in many parts of Britain…

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Inland Vast Bog with Flood Threat to Coast

The Sun · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 3

With a vast bog through the west and north-west of New South Wales, a cyclone moving south of Brisbane threatens widespread floods in Northern Rivers area…

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Flood of protests on hoots

The Sun · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 16

NOTTINGH A M. Tuesday. --A pile of letters from all parts of England, condemning…

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Many Homeless in Polish Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.). --Twenty-five thousand people are homeless because of floods in Poland, says the Warsaw…

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New Flood Threat to American City

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday.--Another flood is threatening Portland, capital of Oregon, where two weeks ago floodwaters from the Columbia River overwhelmed Vanport City…

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Havoc By Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday. --In the past 48 hours the flooded Columbia River at Portland, Oregon, has…

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Thunderstorms' Threat to Australia's Test Prospects Compton's Grim Fight For 154

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

TRENT BRIDGE, Tuesday. --England's only hopes of saving the first Test, which ends at Trent Bridge today, are centred on the seventh wicket partnership between Compton and Evans, plus threatened thunderstorms…

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Race To Save 5 Flooded Families

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

Ballina police left in a launch late this afternoon to rescue five families marooned by flood waters at Teven, five miles from Ballina. POLICE say their plight is serious…

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Race To Save 5 Flooded Families

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

Ballina police left in a launch late this afternoon to rescue five families marooned by flood waters at Teven, five miles from Ballina. POLICE say their plight is serious…

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Lismore Prepares To Battle Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

With the Richmond River 20ft. above normal and a huge volume of water expected from Kyogle and Bangalow, Lismore is preparing to battle what is expected to be the worst flood in its history…

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Big Floods Feared at Lism0re

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Tuesday. --Residents of the Lismore district are preparing for record floods as a…

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