Floods In The “Dead Heart”
(N.Z.P.A -Reuter —Copyright; ALICE SPRINGS, May 10.
Reports reaching here have told of the Northern Territory of Australia being turned into an inland sea by relentless rain.
Air and road services were in chaos, and parties of adults and schoolchildren were stranded in several outback scenic spots, reports said.
The lifeline of the “Dead Heart,” the Commonwealth railway line, was being threatened by floodwaters. Alice Springs was virtually isolated from the south, its road links being cut Most bush roads radiating from the town were impassable, and more than 15 cattleproperty airstrips were waterlogged.
Sixty Hobart schoolboys are “virtually marooned” at Ayers Rock, while another party of 32 girls from Adelaide is stranded at the Ross River resort, 70 miles east of Alice Springs, but neither party was in danger.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 13
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