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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 61

Gale Tore Off Roof

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 3

MAITLAND, Monday.-- The gale-force westerly wind today lifted a flat galvanised iron roof from…

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Gale Tore Off Roof

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 3

MAITLAND, Monday.--The gale-force westerly wind today lifted a flat galvanised iron roof from…

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Cup Storm; Aust. Wins

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 1

BOSTON, Monday.-- Red-faced and angry, the Czech Davis Cup player V. Cernik protested against the umpires yesterday after Australia had beaten…

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Cup Storm; Aust. Wins

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 1

BOSTON, Monday.--Red-faced and angry, the Czech Davis Cup player V. Cernik protested against the umpires yesterday after Australia had beaten…

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Cup Storm; Aust. Wins

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 1

BOSTON, Monday.--Red-faced and angry the Czech Davis Cup player V. Cernik protested against the umpires yesterday after Australia had beaten…

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Cup Storm; Aust. Wins

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 1

BOSTON, Monday.--Red-faced and angry, the Czech Davis Cup player V. Cernik protested against the umpires yesterday after Australia had beaten…

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Cup Storm; Aust. Wins

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 1

BOSTON, Monday. -- Red-faced and angry, the Czech Davis Cup player V. Cernik protested against the umpires yesterday after Australia had beaten…

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Ship slops wharf in Harbor gale

The Sun · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 2

Caught by a howling south-westerly gale, the Westralia was blown on the end of No. 3 wharf,…

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Indian Floods Cover Villages

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 2

KARACHI, Sunday (A.A.P.).--Floodwaters have inundated 126 villages in the Sukkur district of the Province of Sind…

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Broken Main Floods House

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 7

A 60-foot column of water from a broken water main at Croydon on Saturday night flooded a house and damaged…

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Three Die in N.Z. Cyclone Disaster Big Damage At Rail Junction

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 9

AUCKLAND, Wednesday. -- Three people died when a cyclone struck and wrecked a great part of Frankton Junction at noon today…

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Flood Victims Get Australian Food

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--A Lancastrian bringing nearly 4000 1b. of foodstuffs from the people of Australia for victims…

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Flood Victims Get Australian Food

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.-- A Lancastrian bringing nearly 4000 lb. of foodstuffs from the people of Australia for victims…

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Cyclone Lifts House Bodily Into Air

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 3

THIS HOUSE (arrow) was lifted bodily into the air with the occupants inside and hurled to the other side of the street when a cyclone struck Frankton Junction, near Auckland, New Zealand. The cyclone, which lasted only two minutes, killed three people and caused damage estimated at £1,000,000…

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Reds Storm Berlin City Hall Demand For Soviet Control

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).-- Communist mobs today stormed Berlin City Hall in the Soviet sector of the city…

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Clarence River Floods: Farmers' Heavy Losses

The Land · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 10

WITH living costs 50 to 100 per cent. higher than pre-war years farmers could not afford floods to-day, declared the president of the Maclean branch of…

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Reds Storm Building Berlin City Assembly Broken Up

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).--For the second time in 24 hours a Communist mob today stormed Berlin City Hall in the Soviet sector of the…

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Communist Mob Storms City Hall in Berlin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 1

This dramatic radio-picture shows portion of the Communist-led mob of nearly 1,000 demonstrators storming Berlin City Hall in the Soviet sector last Friday. They forced their way in and broke up a council meeting. Although it was the second demonstration in two days, Russian-controlled police merely "looked on."…

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Quiet moment Storm

The Sun · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 9

OUR lives can't all be sunshine, the storms are sure to beat, and yet in darkest hours we find a rainbow for…

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Air Crash in Storm 36 Die In U.S.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, August 30 (A.A.P.).—Thirty-six persons were killed last night when an airliner crashed into a hill near…

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