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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 61

Steamer Battles with Gale

The Sun · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Bass Strait steamer Taroona, with 100 passengers aboard, battled…

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90 Lost In Big Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

ALLAHABAD, Wednesday.--Ninety are missing and 15,000 believed homeless after floods along the…

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90 Lost In Big Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

ALLAHABAD, Wednesday.--Ninety are missing and 15,000 believed homeless after floods along the…

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90 Lost In Big Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

ALLAHABAD, Wednesday.--Ninety are missing and 15,000 believed homeless. after floods along the…

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90 Lost In Big Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

ALLAHABAD, Wednesday.--Ninety are missing and 15,000 believed homeless after floods along the…

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Deadly golf in gale

The Sun · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 24

Playing remarkable golf in bleak conditions, titleholder A. Waterson beat K. Enderby 8 and…

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Angry mob storms police car to free arrested men

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 September 1948 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Sat.--A hooting mob of 200 men tonight tore the radio mast off a police patrol car and twice rescued four men whom police had…

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Gale expected

The Sun · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 14

Weather Notes.--A very strong depression, with the central pressure well below 29 inches of mercury, is located near Tasmania on…

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Rough Seas, Gales Likely

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

Gales are expected over most of N.S.W. within the next 24 hours, and the Weather Bureau has…

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Rough Seas, Gales Likely

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

Gales are expected over most of N.S.W. within the next 24 hours, and the Weather Bureau has…

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Rough Sea[?] Gales Like[?]

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 10

Gales are expected o[?] most of N.S.W. within [?] next 24 hours, and [?] Weather Bureau [?]…

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Gale at Epsom

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Had any horses attended Epsom track this morning for fast work, they would have had to…

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Gale at Epsom

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Had any horses attended Epsom track this morning for fast work, they would have had to…

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Gale at Epsom

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Had any horses attended Epsom track this morning for fast work, they would have had to…

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Heavy Storms in Italy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

LONDON. Sept. 5 (A.A.P.).— Heavy storms and landslides today cut rail communications between Turin and Genoa in Italy…

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Rough Seas, Gales Likely in Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

Gales are expected over most of N.S.W. within the next 24 hours, and the Weather Bureau has…

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Rough Seas, Gales Likely Sn Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

Gales are expected over most of N.S.W. within the next 24 hours, and the Weather Bureau has…

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Two Men Killed in Fierce Vic. Gales

The Sun · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Two men have been killed and seven injured in accidents today caused by violent westerly winds sweeping Melbourne and most of…

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News In Brief Gale Lashes Ships Planes Delayed In South

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

Heavy seas, driven by winds of 40 to 60 miles an hour, are buffeting shipping in the Great Australian Bight…

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Floods Isolate Swiss Resorts

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 5

GENEVA, Monday.--Torrential rains have caused floods in central and western Switzerland…

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