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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
236 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 12
Cologne, the third largest city in Germany, and packed with such industries as heavy engineering works, chemical factories, oil refineries and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A spectacular blaze, which caused loss estimated at nearly £10,000, gutted the three-storey premises of United Lubricants Ltd., at Alexandria to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British bombers made a second attack within a week on the industrial centre at Cologne and once again they left behind them a multitude of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The docks at Brest, from which enemy surface raiders and submarines attack British shipping in the Atlantic, were heavily bombed for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The president of the Shires' Association, Mr. Wilson, has decided to contest the seat on the Board of Fire Commissioners, rendered vacant by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was a tragedy to think that if the State was bombed the bombs had been manufactured largely of iron and steel, which found their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The blitzkrieg returned to London to-night when continuous- waves of raiders swarmed up the Thames Estuary and over the south -east coast for hours. They gave the capital the most intense and longest visitation in two months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Over two hundred fire bombs fell on one London area last night. Men and women rushed out with sandbags and extinguished all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The home of Mr. H. Vidler, situated in Rifle Range road, Bangalow, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The outbreak was first noticed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 4 o'clock one morning last week a couple of rooms on the ground floor of the Pelican Island Hotel, Jerseyville, on the road to South West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out of Murwillumbah in the premises of W. A. Proudfoot's general store, causing damage estimated at £5000 approximately. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Grafton Eire Brigade took delivery this week of a new engine in place of the old engine that has been in use at Grafton since 1929. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage estimated at £10,000 was casued by a fire at Woodware products factory at Derwent Park, Hobart. About 400,000 super feet of dry case…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly after dusk the first contingent of what proved to be an unceasing procession of night raiders approached London. Anti-aircraft batteries immediately gave them a hot reception. but the visitors dropped clusters of red flares, followed by incendiaries, most of which were promptly put out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Berlin officials declared that last night's raid on London was the real beginning of the spring offensive, the objective of which is the complete starvation of the British Isles. Waves of raiders flew over a south-west coastal town, dropping high…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seventeen people, including five children, were forced to flee at 1 a.m. to-day from a large block of flats in South Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, and his party now know from their own experience what a real blitz is like. Arriving at Plymouth last night from Bristol, they heard and saw all the horrors which are difficult to fully realise unless actually endured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Chief Secretary, Mr. Tonking, said last week that the election to till the vacancy on the Board of Fire Commissioners caused by the death of Ald…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A strong force of some of Britain's heaviest bombers carried out a "fire blitz" raid on Berlin last night and, in addition to dropping ten thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the fat in the cooker at Myers' fish shop Prince street. Grafton, ignited shortly before 11 o'clock last night, the flames…
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