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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 61

Other Cable Items Storm Hits Bermuda Great Damage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (A.A.P.).—A hurricane which battered Bermuda for more than five hours yesterday…

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Light From Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 3

ROME, Wednesday. -- Army units, police and fire briades are rushing to Piedmont, there floods have caused…

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Light From Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 3

ROME, Wednesday. -- Army units, police and fire brigades are rushing to Piedmont, where floods have caused…

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Flight From Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 3

Rome, Wednesday. -- Army units, police and fire brigades are rushing to Piedmont, where floods have caused…

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Flight From Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 3

ROME, Wednesday. -- Army If units, police and fire brigades are rushing to Piedmont, there floods have caused…

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Flight From Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 3

ROME, Wednesday. -- Army units, police and fire bribes are rushing to Piedmont, where floods have caused…

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Ship feared lost in gale

The Sun · Thursday 16 September 1948 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- The three masted Portuguese fishing schooner Gaspar is believed to have gone down in…

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Storm Havoc in Scotland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sept. 15 (A.A.P.). £An overnight rainstorm flooded roads throughout West Scotland, cut telephone…

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Thunderstorms Expected Tonight

The Sun · Thursday 16 September 1948 · page 20

Weather Notes.--At 9 am the weather was unsettled over the greater part of NSW, with rain from the Riverina to the NW…

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Sydney lashed by storm

The Sun · Friday 17 September 1948 · page 5

Sydney was drenched this morning by a 15-minute downpour of near-tropic intensity…

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U.S. Has Striking Lessons for Aust. in Flood Prevention & Water Conservation C.P. Chairman's Impressions From World Tour

The Land · Friday 17 September 1948 · page 8

THE manner in which the United States combines flood prevention with water conservation, irrigation and abundant cheap electrical power for gigantic industrial enterprises and primary production, greatly…

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Huge Toll In Jap. Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (A.A.P.).—Nearly 2,000 people were reported killed, injured, or missing in floods of the…

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Rightwingers Can’t Stem Flood Of Support For 30/- Wage Rise

Tribune · Saturday 18 September 1948 · page 6

Best indication that the 30/- basic wage Increase campaign is winning mass support among Australian workers is the anxiety of the extreme ALP Rightwing to defend big…

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300 dead in Japan flood

The Sun · Saturday 18 September 1948 · page 2

TOKIO, Saturday.--Three hundred people were killed at Ichinoseki (Northern Honshu) as a result of the typhoon…

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2000 Casualties in Floods Jap Homes Destroyed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 September 1948 · page 2

TOKIO, Friday.--Between 1800 and 2000 people were killed or injured, or are missing in floodwaters from the Iwai River which swept through…

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Four yachts battling out gale

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 September 1948 · page 24

Four ocean racing yachts are battling out a southerly gale between Norah Head and Palm…

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Big Yachts' Grim Duel with Gale

Truth · Sunday 19 September 1948 · page 18

The big yachts in the Cruising Yacht Club's all night ocean race to Bird Island were caught in a wild…

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Philanthropic Mr. Gale Is at It Again

Truth · Sunday 19 September 1948 · page 10

THAT wide-awake Sydney publisher John Seymour Gale is well aware of the old adage that charity begins at…

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Gale Hits Yachts; Only 3 Of 12 In Race Finish

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1948 · page 1

A 45-mile-an-hour gale and rough seas over the week-end battered yachts competing in the Founders'…

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Peer Gynt Wins Ocean Yacht Race Gale Causes £1000 Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 September 1948 · page 4

The Halvorsen brothers' 36ft, cutter Peer Gynt won the Cruising Yacht Club's 70-mile race to Bird Island and back to Pittwater during the weekend…

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