Fire Watching Compulsory
LONDON, January 1.—Mr. Morrison, Home Security Minister, declared on the air today that the Government had affirmed the principle of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
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Germans Taste What Londoners Have Suffered Bremen Bombed By R.A.F. Incendiary Bombs Leave Fire Trail (Special to "The Miner") LONDON January 2
Giving the Germans a taste of what London received on Sunday, the R.A.F. last night dropped 20,000 incendiary bombs and big loads of high explosive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Peace For The Italians Battered By R. A. F. On All Fronts Many Bases In Libya Hammered: Fires THE R.A.F. is giving the Italians no peace on any of the African fronts. Bardia, Darna and other bases in Libya have been hammered. Big fires have been caused at positions in Eritrea, and attacks have been made on an aerodrome in Italian Somaliland. Bombs On Bardia (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, January 2
THE R.A.F. raided Bardia again last night, and all bombs burst in the target area. Three planes were destroyed in raids on El Gazala aerodrome in Libya on Tuesday night and yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →20,000 Incendiaries on Bremen Reprisal For London Attack Concentrated Discharge Causes Fires And Explosives LONDON, January 2
The R.A.F. showered docks and harborside factories at Bremen with 20,000 incendiary bombs in the first hour of a 3½ hours raid on Wednesday night. This was a reprisal attack for the German attempt to been out London on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory Fire Perth, January 5
Thousands of pounds damage was caused when a big fire swept the factory of the West Australian Bug Company in Wellington Street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Raids on England Nazi Effort To Start Fires (Special to "The Miner."[?] LONDON, January 5
[?]AVES of German bombers dropped hundreds of incendiary bomba on one London district tonight, apparently in an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£500 Fire at Renmark
RENMARK, Tuesday. — Prompt action by Renmark Fire Brigade prevented possibly disastrous results when a fish shop in one of the town's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Incendiaries on London But Not Single Fire Started New Method Of Fire Watchers Works Well LONDON, January 5
Waves of German raiders dropped a hundred incendiary bombs on one London area tonight in an apparent effort to start fires such as ravaged London last week. Last night enemy planes made a series…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Damages Car on Mt. Gipps Road
Moving away from its owner after it had been stopped to [?]able a mechanical adjustment to be made, a touring car fell over an embankment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in British Ship
A.A.P., NEW YORK, January 11. The British freighter Black Heron (4926 tons) was found to be afire in one hold a few hours before she was due to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Kink for Starting Fires Man Deemed Insane Sent To Institution
AN elderly man who it was alleged had a kink for starting fires was charged with being a person deemed to be insane when he appeared before Mr. M. S. Meagher, Acting S.M., in the Police Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →George Cook Now Fights Fires
LONDON. January 14.—"This is the toughest fight I have been in, but we always knock out our opponent," said George Cook, former Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raids in Libya Large Fires Started London, January 14
A RAID on Benina and also one on Berka Aerodrome nearby was carried out on Sunday night. Large fires were started at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Harass Italians Tobruk Garrison Fire Is Desultory (Special to "The Miner") CAIRO, January 15
WHILE Britain continues to harass the Italians on all fronts in Africa there has been no major change. The Australian Official War Correspondent (Sergeant Ian Fitchett), who was near Tobruk yesterday, declares…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Near Daylesford
DAYLESFORD, Wednesday.—More than 100 men fought a bush fire which broke out near the cemetery road, about two miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daylight Attacks on Invasion Forts Fires And Explosions From Calais To Boulogne
DAY by day the striking power of the R.A.F. is growing, and day by day both Germany and Italy are feeling tack weight of British blows. Another heavy daylight attack has been launched on the invasion coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swiss Hotel Fire A.A.P., LONDON, January 16
The famous Bear Hotel, Grindelwald (Switzerland), known to Australian winter sports enthusiasts, was destroyed by fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Fire at Tobruk
CAIRO, January 19.—An R.A.F. communique announces that in a raid on Tobruk on Friday night a huge fire was started near the petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Raid Fighters Have Increasing Overseas Demand for Fire Appliances London, January 19
The stirrup pump now installed in thousands of British households to cope with incendiary bombs is still being turned out by its biggest makers in Great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raider Fires On Fanners LONDON, January 22
An enemy raider swooped down, this morning and machine-gunned farmers inspecting pigs on an East Anglian farm…
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