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Floods & storms, 1953

1,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 84

World-wide cable news services 380 Dead in Flood Downpour continues

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 6

TOKIO, Sun.--Heavy rain fell over flood-devastated Kyushu Island today and the deathroll rose to 380…

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380 Deaths As Floods Sweep Across Kyushu

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 1

TOKIO, Sun.--Heavy rain fell over flood-devastated Kyushu Island today and the deathroll rose to 380. More than 1100 people have been injured…

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2000 Dead, Missing in Japan Disaster Worst Flood in 60 Years Razes Towns

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 5

TOKIO, Mon. -- More than 2000 persons are dead or missing and more than 700,000 are homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu…

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2000 dead, missing in Japanese flood

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 10

TOKIO, Mon. --More than 2000 persons are dead or missing and more than 700,000 are homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu Islands for Sixty years. Police at Fukuka, the…

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2000 dead, missing in Japanese flood

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 10

TOKIO, Mon.--More than 2000 persons are dead or missing and more than 700,000 are (homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu Islands for sixty years. Police at Fukuka, the…

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2000 Dead, Missing in Japan Disaster Worst Flood In 60 Years Razes Towns

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 5

TOKIO, Mon. -- More than 2000 persons are dead or missing an more than 700,000 are homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu…

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2000 dead, missing in Japanese flood

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 10

TOKIO, Mon. --More than 2000 persons are dead or missing and more than 700,000 are homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu Islands for sixty years. Police at Fukuka, the…

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News, Sport From Northern Districts Means Test for Hospital Patients Evokes Flood of Protests

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Mon. -- A new means test to define public and intermediate hospital patients has drawn protests from Newcastle and coalfields…

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2000 dead, missing in Japanese flood

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 10

TOKIO, Mon.--More-than 2000 persons are dead or missing more than 700,000 are homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu islands, for sixty years Police at Fukuka, the…

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2000 dead, missing in Japanese flood

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 10

TOKIO, Mon. -- More than 2000 persons are dead or missing and more than 700,000 are homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu Islands for sixty years. Police at Fukuka, the…

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2000 Dead, Missing in Japan Disaster Worst Flood In 60 Years Razes Towns

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 5

TOKIO, Mon. -- More than 2000 persons are dead or missing and more than 700,000 are homeless in the worst floods on Kyushu…

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423 Dead in Japanese Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 3

TOKYO, June 29 (A.A.P.).—Rain on Japan's southernmost island, Kyushu, stopped to-day for the first time in five days, but the greatest flood in Japanese modern history has…

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Overseas cable news Million homeless in big Jap. flood 1100 Dead and Missing

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 4

TOKIO, Mon.--More than a million Japanese people are homeless after five days of the worst floods in Japanese history…

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Typhoon threat in flood's wake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 4

TOKIO, Tues. (A.P.).-- As the deathroll in the Kyushu floods rose yesterday to 457, a typhoon was reported to be whirling from the Pacific toward the island…

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Typhoon threat In flood's wake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 11

TOKIO, Tues. (A.P.). -- As the deathroll in the Kyushu floods rose yesterday to 457, a typhoon was reported to be whirling from the Pacific toward the islands…

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Typhoon threat in flood's wake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 4

TOKIO, Tues. (A.P.). -- As the deathroll in the Kyushu floods rose yesterday to 457, a typhoon was reported to be whirling from the Pacific toward the island…

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Typhoon threat in flood's wake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 11

TOKIO, Tues. (A.P.). -- As the deathroll in the Kyushu floods rose yesterday to 457, a typhoon was reported to be whirling front the Pacific toward the island…

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Typhoon threat in flood's wake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 11

TOKIO, Tues. (A.P.). -- As the deathroll in the Kyushu floods rose yesterday to 457, a typhoon was reported to be whirling from the Pacific toward the island…

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Thunderstorms Possible for Final Day at Lords

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. -- Fine weather with a possibility of thunderstorms, has again been forecast for Lords today, but English cricket writers, taking a gloomy view, have already conceded the match to Australia. Needing 343 runs for…

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Typhoon threat in flood's wake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 11

TOKIO, Tues. (A.P.). -- As the deathroll in the Kyushu flood rose yesterday to 457, a typhoon was reported to be whirling from the Pacific toward the island…

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