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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
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From our correspondent, Lee Vanatta at Balik Papan, July 3.—Gen. MacArthur drew angry Japanese sniper fire again this afternoon as the Army's Pacific Commander-in-Chief surveyed an enemy strongpoint from a most advanced Australian command post less…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire which broke out in a house at 589 Wyman Street, near McCulloch Street, North Broken Hill, had practically destroyed the house by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The South Fire Brigade turned out to a chimney fire at 145 Hebbard Street, at 8.2 p.m. on Wednesday night. The fire was extinguished with buckets of water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire which broke out in a chimney at the home of Mr. P. C. Peoples, 351 Chloride Street, at 8.17 o'clock on Saturday night was extinguished by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London, July 13.—The [?] Court have been was street by [?] last night when she at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GREAT fires are blazing near Tokio following a two-hour night bombardment by British and American battleships. The shelling lasted for two hours, and at one stage l500 tons of shells were poured in in less than an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Guam, July 17.—Augmented by the British task force, including the battleship King, George the Fifth, the United States Third Fleet has launched new attacks in great strength against the Tokio area. This is the first time in the Pacific war that British surface ships have joined in a direct bombardment of the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At 5.20 p.m. yesterday Central Fire Brigade answered a false alarm which came from the box at the corner of Sulphide and Lane Streets…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney, July 20—Thomas Januarius Smith, chairman of the N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners, and former M.L.C., admitted under…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, July 27.—When a fire broke out in the munitions plant in a town near Sydney today a great column of white smoke shot into the air, covering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 2.45 p.m. on Saturday the Central Fire Brigade was called to a fire at the premises of Del Vecchio, bootmaker, at 504 Chapple Street. One…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FIRES among palm trees in the Central Reserve yesterday caused dense clouds of smoke to sweep over nearby buildingsâjust…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At has pan, yesterday the Chimney Fire Brigade answeren a call to [?] Street, where there was a chimney fire. The lire was extinguished with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANILA, August 7 More than 300 bombers from Okinawa today smashed important rail, air and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thought to have been caused by hot ashes from the ash box of a train, several sleepers of a bridge about three-quarters of a mile on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thought to have been caused by ashes from the hot box of an engine several sleepers of a bridge about three quarters of a mile on the Cockburn side of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There were four false alarms during the holiday period, it was stated at the Central Fire Station today. While these caused inconvenience to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEW YORK, August 16.—Members of the Imperial family of Japan are going to the battle fronts to see that Japanese troops obey the cease fire order. This was announced today in a message sent by the Japanese Government to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Aug 23—Lieut.-Gen. Kimura, Commander of the. Japanese forces in Burma, confirmed the "cease fire" order in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York, August 24.—Tokio radio says that the cease fire order has now reached all islands occupied by Jap troops. Domei Agency soys that the special session of the Diet (Parit) has been convened for Sept. 2 to drive home to the nation the stork reality…
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