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Fires & bushfires, 1915

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Australia Day Madness. Wounded Soldiers Under Fire in George Street

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 3

If a visitor from another planet, with no previous information on the subject, had alighted in George Street, or anywhere in Sydney on the memorable 30th…

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Massacre, Fire, & Destruction

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 28 August 1915 · page 3

The committee had before them a very valuable mass of evidence from witnesses of repute of what occurred in Louvain. On the eevning of the 25th firing could…

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Fire at Wahgunyah

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 August 1915 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last a weatherboard cottage in the railway station yard, owned by the Railway Department and occupied by an employe named…

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Destructive Fire in Yarrawonga

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 August 1915 · page 1

Three shops were destroyed by fire in Belmore-street, Yarrawonga, at about 2.30 a.m. on Friday last. The fire started in Mr. Stanley Van[?]m's…

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President Wilson's Patient, Fire Attitude Vindicated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 3 September 1915 · page 2

A message from Washington says that everyone is delighted at the German decision. President Wilson feels that his patient, firm attitude has been fully…

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Difficulties of Trench Warfare No Easy Thing to Charge Across Open Ground in Face of Rifle Fire and Machine Guns, Declares Man in [?]hicK of Fighting on Western Front

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 3 September 1915 · page 4

It is no easy thing to charge across 150 years of open ground with two machine guns adding their deadly hall to the rain of bullets directly from…

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Bush Fires on the Dorrigo. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 September 1915 · page 2

Big bush hras are raging in Derrige dishrict the whole of the town is a mass glscothing daincs, Alrcady [ ?]…

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Under Shell Fire

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 8 September 1915 · page 4

From Cpl. Hides, 49th (W.R.) Divisional Signal Co., British Expeditionary Force, June 17, 1915:—"Dear father,—I was glad to hear in your…

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Effect of the Bush Fires

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 30

"Thus the development of the attack was delayed. Another, division, wheeling towards Hill 112, was caught at short range by the Turkish second line upon the…

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Fire at Berrigan Dwelling Destroyed

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 3

Whilst most of the residents of Berrigan were at church on Sunday evening last the fire bell rang. Fortunately, few of the congregations…

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Balranald Fire Brigade An Appeal For Funds

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 September 1915 · page 3

The newly-constituted Fire Brigade made, its initial public appeal on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings last for financial assistance. Time brings…

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Western War Theatre. Gun Duels in France. German Fire Mastered. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 September 1915 · page 2

A Paris communique reports that artillery actions on the West trent continue. The French batteries in the Hols de…

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To Make Fire Kindlers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 3

Take rosin any quantity, melt it and put in for each pound three ounces of tallow. When all is very hot stir in sawdust to the quantity of being absorbed…

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Fire on Shore Batteries Reduced

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 22

Paris reports state that the fire of the Turkish Asiatic batteries has been enormously reduced…

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Sir G. Reid under Fire

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 18 September 1915 · page 2

Sir George Reid is visiting the western battle front and has been twice under shrapnel fire…

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No Change in Flanders. Mining and Gun Fire

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 September 1915 · page 2

Field Marshal Sir John French reports that the situation on the British front has remained unchanged since August 15. There has been considerable mining…

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Serious Fire at Beechworth Big Tannery Destroyed. Beechworth

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 September 1915 · page 3

A disastrous fore occurred at 3.30 a.m. on Sunday, resulting in the total destruction of Zwar Bros, and Co's tannery, with all the plant and machinery. The fire…

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The War on the Seas. An Enemy Submarine Destroyed, Austrians Claim to Have Sunk a British Transport. Another Vessel on Fire at Sea

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 September 1915 · page 2

Vienna announces that an Austrian submarine sank a large British transport in the Southern Adriatic. A Copenhagen message states that…

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Serious Fire

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Wednesday 22 September 1915 · page 2

A boarding house kept by Patrick Murphy, Balmain, was gutted by fire this morning, the damage being estimated at £1000. The occupants…

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Fire in Colliery. Many Lives Lost. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 September 1915 · page 3

A colliery disaster, resulting in the loss of a number of lives, has occurred all Nuneaton, in Warwickshire. A fire broke out in the Exhall pit when…

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