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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
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London, June 20.—The Allied stranglehold on the Cherbourg Peninsula has been strengthened by a series of local counter attacks, says the Supreme Command's communique. An enemy attack was repulsed near Tilly sur Seulles, where heavy fighting continues…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH.—Wliile firemen were tackling a £40,000 blaze in Murray Street, City, they received a call to Hay Street, where a fire had occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, June 23—The Berlin radio states that fires started in London six days ago are still burning. The gla[?]e can be seen as far as R[?]en…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, June 27.—To give effect to the declaration by Mr. Eden in the House of commons that Germans who murdered 50 RAF officers at Stalag III "shall…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wellington (N.Z.), June 27.—A number of valuable trotting horses and thousands of pounds worth of trotting gear were lost when fire swept through the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane, June 29.—A spectacular fire at Yeerongpilly early this morning involved the premises of D. G. Brimms and Sons. Plywood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, July 3.—A State-wide strike of all permanent firemen was called off at 6.30 p.m. after Sydney had been without fire brigade services for eight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, July 3.—The initial operation in the recovery of Aberdare Central Mine, which has been sealed down for the last 11 months following a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—As a result of the decision to provide firemen with overcoats members of the Fire Brigades Officers' Association met last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bellaire, Ohio, July 6.—After a fire had blazed for 15 hours at Powhatan colliery, hope of saving 64 trapped miners was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, July 6 —Ministerial control of fire brigades throughout the State is being sought by the N.S.W. Fire Brigades Association…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Washington, July 6.— British and American forces in Europe are preparing a fire power four times greater than the Germans, said the acting War…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York, July 8.— At least 120 persons, about one-third children, perished in a fire in a big circus lent at Hartford, Connecticut, and the death roll is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, July 9.—Five officials, including the vice-president and gene, ral manager of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cairns. July 9.—Cairns Timber Ltd., veneer and hardwood mills were destroyed by fire yesterday. Damage is estimated between £30,000 and —40,000. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY. — Trapped in flames which practically gutted her home in Whateley Street, Newtown, last night Mrs. Madeline…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, July 13.—The 5th Army, overcoming increasing, strong resistance, pushed two miles nearer to Leghorn, and Allied gins on the Adriatic coast are now in range of Ancona Harbor, where vital targets are under shelitire. Gains, however, are less pronounced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From John Loughlin at General MacArthur's Headquarters, July 20.—Two Australian cruisers stood off the coast of the Wewak sector of Northern New Guinea on Monday and poured salvo after salvo into on area occupied by Jap Headquarters moved up from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →About 545 yesterday evening some children reported to the South Fire Brigade that some flames had been seen issuing from the mouth of one of the drives in the western wall of the open cut on the Central Mine into which the flying fox used to deliver skimps…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DESPITE the efforts of 50 firemen drawn from the Central and South Stations, and men employed by the South mine on fire fighting activities, a fire which broke out in an air shaft and drive in the old Proprietary mine open cut, on the boundary of the Central and Block 10 mines,…
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