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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 61

Floods Isolate Swiss Resorts

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 2

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

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Floods Isolate Swiss Resorts

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 2

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

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Floods Isolate Swiss Resorts

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 2

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

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Floods Isolate Swiss Resorts

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 2

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

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Floods Isolate Swiss Resorts

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 2

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

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Severe Gale Damage in Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 1

Violent winds lashed Victoria yesterday morning and caused considerable damage. TOP: Women and children moving from huts at the Royal Park Housing Settlement after the roofs had been torn off by a 90-mile-an-hour…

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120 Dead In Fierce Gale

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

ROME, Tuesday. -- At least 120 persons were killed in a fierce gale which swept Italy,…

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Storm On French Bonuses

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

PARIS, Tuesday. -- A storm of protest has developed among Government employees and…

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Storm On French Bonuses

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

PARIS, Tuesday. -- A storm of protest has developed among Government employees and…

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Storm On French Bonuses

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

PARIS, Tuesday. -- A storm of protest has developed. among Government employees and…

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Storm On French Bonuses

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

PARIS, Tuesday. -- A storm of protest has developed among Government employees and…

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Italian Storm Kills 80

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sept. 6 (A.A.P.). —More than 80 people lost their lives in "a violent storm wTiich swept Northern Italy at…

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Gangs Clear Up Storm Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Repair gangs have be- gun clearing up the thousands of tons of wreckage left when hurricane-force gales cut a path of destruction through Southern Victoria yesterday…

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80 Die in Italy Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

ROME, Monday (A.A.P.).--More than 80 people died in a violent storm which swept North Italy at the weekend…

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2 DEAD, 9 Hurt in Storm Winds To 90 m.p.h

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 1

Winds up to 90 miles an hour swept across southern Victoria yesterday, killing two people and injuring nine…

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Gales Still Lash Vict

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Gales, which during the past four days have caused widespread…

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Gales Still Lash Vict

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Gales, which during the past four days have caused widespread…

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Gales Continue To Lash Vict

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Gales, which during the past four days have caused widespread destruction, are continuing, and heavy seas are still running ih Bass Strait…

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Italian City Submerged By Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 6

ROME, Wednesday.--Asti, a town in Alessandria province, near the Tanaro River, has been partially…

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Town Hall Crowded For Concert By C.Y.O. Despite Heavy Rain

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 4

DESPITE heavy rain, the Town Hall was filled to capacity when His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy and His Lordship the Most Rev. Eris O'Brien, Auxiliary-Bishop to His Eminence, arrived to witness the Catholic Youth Organisation concert and rally on Tuesday night of last week…

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