PORT ISOLATED BY CYCLONE
Huge Seas Wash Away Houses PERTH, January 12 Au 80-mile-au-hour cyclone at. Pol t Hedlund raised such seas that many houses in the town have been washed away. The town, which is built on a low-lying area close to the sea. is now isolated.
The following urgent wireless appeal for assistance was picked up by the Bal four Downs station bite .vesierday afternoonHedlaml is surrounded by sea. Wind is increasing and <ea rising. Please endeavour to get me<sage to Broome, Perth, or anywhere possible.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 5
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88PORT ISOLATED BY CYCLONE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 5
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