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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1953

1,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 84

Golfers to Aid Flood Relief

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 23

Miss Una Clift, president of the New South Wales Ladies' Golf Union, has opened a fund to help with…

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Stop Press Flood Victims Rescued

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 24

LONDON, Fri.--Many Duptch people have been rescued from trees, houses, and small patches of ground where they had…

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Stop Press Flood Victims Rescued

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 24

LONDON, Fri.--Many Duptch people have been rescued from trees, houses, and small patches of ground where they had…

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Helicopters in Dutch Flood Rescue Sweep

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Fri. (B.U.P.).--Twenty five helicopter pilots have been given urgent instructions to fly to the flood Striken Dutch towns, Nieuwe Dijk and Tonge. Fifteen hundred people…

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Helicopters in Dutch Flood Rescue Sweep

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Fri.(B.U.P.).--Twenty-five helicopter pilots hove been given urgent instructions to fly to the flood-stricken Dutch towns, Niouwe Diik ond Nieuwe Tonge. Fifteen hundred people…

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Golfers to Aid Flood Relief

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 23

Miss una unit, president of the New South Wales Ladies' Golf Union, has opened a fund to help with…

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Golfers to Aid Flood Relief

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 23

Miss Una Clift, president of the New South Wales Ladies' Golf "Union, has opened a fund to held with…

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Helicopter in Dutch Flood Rescue Sweep

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Fri. (B.U.P.).--Twenty five helicopter pilots have been given urgent instructions to fly to the flood Striken Dutch towns, Nieuwe Dijk and Tonge. Fifteen hundred people…

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Helicopters in Hutch Flood Rescue Sweep

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Fri. (B.U.P.).--Twenty five helicopter pilots have been given urgent instructions to fly to the flood Striken Dutch towns, Nieuwe Dijk and Tonge. Fifteen hundred people…

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Helicopters in Butch Flood Rescue Sweep

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Fri. (B.U.P.).--Twenty-five helicopter pilots hove beep given urgent instructions to fly to the flood-stricken Dutch towns, Nieuwe Diik and Nieuwe Tonge. Fifteen hundred people…

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Heavy Rain Revives N.T. Cattle Country

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 2

DARWIN, Friday.—Reports reaching Darwin indicate that the Northern Territory cattle country is…

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Leueotomy causes medical storm in Britain Many doctors in Britain doubt benefits of brain operation

The World's News · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 16

ONE of the most violent controversies in British medical circles for many years is now raging behind the scenes. The controversy, which…

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Absent king irks people hit by flood

The Sun · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 1

BRUSSELS, Saturday.--Belgium newspapers today criticised King Baudouin of Belgium holidaying on the French Riviera while his country…

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Dutch flood fund grows

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 6

Three hundred steelworkers each will give a day's pay to Dutch flood victims…

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Camera Glimpses of Britain's Ordeal in Disastrous Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 5

TOP: A rescue worker hailing a house on Canvey Island in the Thames…

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Flood Damage Causes Huge Loss in Holland

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Fri.--Flood damage in Holland would cost more than 735,000,000 guilders (about £A.88,000,000), Dutch officials said today…

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7 Saved In Flood . At 'Alice'

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 2

DARWIN, Sat.--Seven persons were saved from almost certain death by the heroic rescue work…

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7 Saved In Flood At 'Alice'

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 3

DARWIN, Sat.—Seven persons were saved from almost Pertain death, by the heroic rescue work…

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Rescue Drama lN Kent Flood!

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 1

I Police aid; Volunteer rescuers in rowing boots clamber Over window sills and up swaying ladders to rescue victims trapped in the first storeys of their f homes by disastrous floods at Whitstable (Kent) last weekend. The…

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Flood Relief For Holland

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1953 · page 4

More than £300 for Holland's flood vicitms has been collected in the last three days by the…

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