Gale lashes England; death and destruction
LONDON, Monday.--Many yachts are missing and holiday resorts were devastated yesterday by a 70 miles an hour gale which lashed Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods & storms, 1948
1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 61
8 Drowned, Many Rescues in Gale
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.). -- Eight people were drowned when a trawler capsized and sank off the French coast in a gale that lashed southern England and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine Die, Four Missing in Wild Channel Gale Devastation In English Towns
LONDON, Monday.-- Thousands are homeless and of least nine persons have been drowned, with four missing, in freak Channel storms which have turned holiday towns into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ships Wrecked, Lives Lost In U.K. Storms Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
LONDON, Aug. 8.—Eight people were drowned when a big wave capsized a trawler off Brittany (France) last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Uses Radar for Storm Warnings
NEW YORK.--An American farmer, Lester Phister, of 1 El Paso, has started using radar at a cost of £4000 a year, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Uses Radar for Storm Warnings
NEW YORK.--An American farmer, Lester Phister, of El Paso, has started using radar at a cost of £4000 a year, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Uses Radar for Storm Warnings
NEW YORK.-- An American farmer, Lester Phister, of hi Paso, has started using radar at a cost of £4000 a year, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Uses Radar for Storm Warnings
NEW YORK.--An American farmer, Lester Phister, of El Paso, has started using radar at a cost of £4000 a year, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Uses Radar for Storm Warnings
NEW YORK.--An American h farmer, Lester Phister, of El Paso, has started using radar at a cost of £4000 d year, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Uses Radar for Storm Warnings
NEW YORK.-- An American farmer, Lester Phister, of El Paso, has started using radar at a cost of £4000 a year, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm's Effect On U.K.'s Winter Food
LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).--Britain's winter food prospects may be affected by yesterday's 70 m.p.h. storm which ruined many crops ready for harvesting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deaths in Gale Heavy Toll In Britain Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—At least 12 people lost their lives and 11 more are missing, feared drowned, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water-burst Wrecks Road, Traps Traffic, Floods Homes
A burst water main last night wrecked 100 yards of Parramatta Road in Camperdown and trapped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water-Main Bursts, Street Flooded
A large water-main, which burst in Parramtta Road last night, blew kerbstones, pavements, and woodblocks into the air. Water poured from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Havoc In Scotland Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
LONDON, Aug. 13.— Floods caused havoc in the south of Scotland and north-west of England last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Job, Union Meetings Flood A.C.T.U. With Support For 30/ Wage Rise Demand
Treating the drive for a 30/- increase in the basic wage as “a matter of urgency,” resolutions supporting the demand are pouring into the ACTU from job and union meetings now being held throughout Sydney and Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Damage British Crops
LONDON, Saturday. -- Troops are assisting farmers to repair flood damage in many parts off Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hundreds Homeless In Floods
LONDON, Friday.--Hundreds of Edinburgh families are homeless because…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Ravage Nth. England Bridges Down, Families Homeless East Coast Rail Havoc
LONDON, Saturday. -- The worst floods in memory have swept away railway bridges, isolated towns and villages, left families homeless and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North England Flood Havoc
LONDON, Saturday.--The worst floods in memory have swept away railway bridges, isolated towns and villages, left families homeless and drowned many animals in East…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →