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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1940

548 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 28

30-Mile Front Big Fire At Ivanhoe Fencing Damaged [?]

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1940 · page 2

Raging on a 30-mile front, fires have destroyed [?] acres of feed country, and [?] of have been damaged. A…

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Bushfire at Katoomba Katoomba

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1940 · page 5

Five cottages in the vicinity were saved when a bushfire broke out late yesterday afternoon at the southern end of Govett’s-street, Katoomba…

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Fires at Sydney Churches Believed to Be Wilful

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 December 1940 · page 2

Following a fire discovered in the crib of a church in Sydney last week, two outbreaks occurred in churches in the same street at Coogee last…

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Fires in Churches Two Outbreaks At Coogee SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 December 1940 · page 4

Two outbreaks of Are occured in churches in the same street at Coogee last night. They were discovered in time to prevent serious damage…

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Home Destroyed Fire. Near Rix'S Creek SINGLETON

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 December 1940 · page 6

The home of Mrs. John Price between Maison Died and [?] Credit was Completly destroyed by are on Christmas Five. Mrs. Prier who is…

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Australians Undergo Baptism of Fire Troops Well Dug In. Cairo, Sunday (A.A.P.) (By War Correspondent Fitchett.)

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 December 1940 · page 2

Australians in the western desert have undergone a baptism of fire in recent days. Repeated bombings have given the men a trying…

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Fires Started= Raid on Tobruk (British Official Wireless) LONDON Dec. 30

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1940 · page 4

An R.A.F. communique issued at Cairo states “On the night of December 26-27, our aircraft carried out a raid on tobruk, fires were started,…

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Vicious Attempt To Fire London fails Famous Buildings Destroyed

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1940 · page 4

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Berlin Station Set Or Fire (A.A.P. Service) BERLIN, Dec, 30

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1940 · page 1

Two heavy bomb-like explosion in the because room at the Ashalfer railway ex[?] in Berlin [?] to…

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