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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
116 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 6
At a well attended meeting of bananagrowers in the Coff's Harbour School of Arts it was unanimously decided that it was desirable to introduce a fire-fighting organisation and a self-insurance scheme to operate in the Coff's Harbour—Woolgoolga…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Fri.—Heavily outnumbered by Japanese forces and spitting fire to the last the Australian cruiser, H.M.A.S. Perth, went down in the Sundra Strait on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American doughboys cross a street lined with refugees from the burning business section of the Philippines capital.--U.S.A. Signal Corps photo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Sun.—Why flames spread so fast and leaped so high in Tokio yesterday was revealed when the Army Chemical Warfare Service released a limited…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thurs.--Third Army troops crossed the Moselle eight miles south-west of Coblen z, states Reuter's correspondent with the Third Army, adding they penetrated as far as three miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops of the Third U.S. Army run across a Bailey Bridge in Luxembourg under the spatter of constant enemy shellfire. U.S. Office of War Information picture…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Sun.—Reporting Friday's attack on Kobe, in which over 2300 tons of incendiaries were dropped, the 20th Air Force communique says 300 planes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire that threatened the ammunition magazine of a large vessel berthed at an eastern Australian port was extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Ninth Army soldiers fire across the Rhine at Nazi positions from a water-side Restaurant in the captured town of Uerdingen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SANTIAGO, Thursday.--The Chilean newspaper. "Hora," alleges Axis sabotage was responsible for fires on three Chilean…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Sun.--An attempt was made to burn down part of the Grovely army detention camp on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Fri.--Damage estimated at £120,000 was caused by a mysterious fire, which destroyed a section of the big…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Marines fire an artillery field piece at Japanese positions on Iwo Jima, Japanese military outpost 750 miles south-east Of Tokio.--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Australian Lancasters and Halifaxes participated in last night's raids on Hamburg and Lutzkendorf…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Regulations recently gazetted require all farmers to fit spark arrestors to the exhausts of motor tractors, power driven harvesters…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the public meeting convened by the District Council of the Banana Growers' Federation at Coff's Harbour in February it was considered desirable to introduce a fire-fighting organisation and self-insurance scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GUAM, Tues.--Fires started by 300 to 400 Super-Fortresses taking part in Monday's two-way mission, against Tokio and Kawasaki were visible hundreds of miles out to sea, and one Fortresses' crew, when 137 miles out on the homeward run, saw an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wed.--Reuter's correspondent in Moscow says the only despatch from the Oder front says Russians are so close…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BOUGAINVILLE, Sun.--Australian engineers under fire constructed a crossing over the creek to attack the enemy who was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wed.--The entire eastern half of Berlin is on fire, according to Allied airmen who have been thrown into the battle, for the German capital, where it is…
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