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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
241 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 13
In what [?] German radio [?] described as one of the [?] raids this year, a large [?] of the R.A.F.'s biggest [?] Berlin last night and left great [?] burning in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MOSCOW, September 4.—Near Odessa when a German raiding party surrounded Lieut. Medvedev's observation post he phoned to his battery:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The sudden clearing of clouds over the River Spree gave R.A.F. bomber pilots direction to the heart of the German capital last night, enabling them to drop bombs which they saw burst among industrial buildings, leaving fires burning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It it well known that fires caused by oil, petrol, benzol, and other inflammable liquids are difficult to extinguish, and the matter is of particular importance at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Admiralty announces that H.M.S. Hermoine rammed and cut in half an Italian submarine. Fleet Air Arm planes on Tuesday night in the Mediterranean torpedoed two convoyed merchantmen, one of which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Monday.—Five thousand sheep have perished and thousands of acres of grass and scrub land have been burnt by two big…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attention of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce has been directed to several fires on motor cars fitted with gas producer units, said Mr. H. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A great chain of fires is raging in the Boulogne area to-night otter what appears to have been ninety minutes of R.A.F. bombardment. German bombers replied with attacks on a south-east coastal town, causing casualties, including…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A short circuit in the electric wiring at the residence of Mr. John Thomas Gregson, 242 Chloride Street, was responsible for a call being [?]ade…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Describing the rose as most extraordinary one a Judge in the Supreme Court today placed Brian Edwards (27) on probation for three years when he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire destroyed the premises of the Empire Printing and Box Manufacturing Company at Wellington today. Damage is estimated at £60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—McCorquodale Bros.' flour mills in Sussex Street were destroyed by a fire which broke out shortly after 2 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thirteen grazing and farming propertiesties embracing 18,000 acres already been burnt out in one of the most disastrous bushfires in K[?]. It…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Thursday.— Brisbane was swept by a record-breaking southwesterly gale, the wind at times reaching a velocity of 62 miles an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire which broke out in a five-storied warehouse of McCorquodale Bros. flour millers in Sussex Street city this morning gutted the three top floors, while the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Slight damage was done to the kitchen of an unoccupied house at 665 Blende Street, owned by Mrs. Egan, when a fire broke out this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SLEEPING peacefully in the upper berth of a sleeping compartment in the Adelaide-bound Broken Hill expresa last night shortly before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a fire broke out in the kitchen of an unoccupied house at 665 Blende Street owned by Mrs. Egan on Saturday morning. slight damage was done. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday night R.A.F. bombers mode a highly successful raid on oil installations, harbor buildings and shipping at Piraeus in Greece. The installations form one of the most important fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Several sheds and a laundry at the rear of a house at 331 Morgan Street occupied by Mr. J. Kerr were destroyed, by fire early this morning…
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