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Fires & bushfires, 1915

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The Dardanelles. Wonderful French Fire. Turks [?]. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 July 1915 · page 2

Advices received from Mitylene state that the spirits of the Turks can only be sustained by brining up fresh troops, but this will not be possible for long. The…

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Fierce Fighting in Gallipoli French Fire Annihilates the Turks Russians Sink German Battleship Crown Prince's Troops Suffer Severely Australian Casualties. a Further 182 Names. Melbourne Monday Night

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 July 1915 · page 2

The forty-eighth casualty list, issued to-night, contains 182 names, including 38 killed in action, and 123 wounded. There is a further announcement of 180 in…

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Massacre, Fire, & Destructions

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 July 1915 · page 4

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

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British Steamer on Fire. In the Atlantic

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 2

The British steamer Minnehaha, 13,000 tons, trading between New York and Britain, is on fire in mid-ocean. It is believed that a German sympathiser had…

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Under Fire

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 6

Every one of us must have wondered how he would feel in battle for the first time. We may get some idea of how the average man feels…

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Big Berlin Fire

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 5

Berlin newspapers report that a big fire has occurred at the United Chemical Works at Charlottenburg, four miles from Berlin…

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Massacre, Fire, & Destruction

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 4

The committee had before them a very valuable mass of evidence from witnesses of repute of what occurred in Louvain. On the cevuing of the 23th firing could…

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Fire in Large Liner. German Outrage Suspected

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 5

It would appear that the beliefs entertained by the New York port authorities of an extensive German plot to wreck Allied trans-Atlantic liners are well founded…

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Forest Fires in Germany. 10,000 Tons of Turf Destroyed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 2

The Berlin newspaper "Tageblat" states that great turf fires are raging in Scheweges moor, Oshabrueek. Already 10,000 tons of turf have been destroyed…

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Great Turf Fires. Raging in Germany

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 6

The Berlin "Tagleblatt" states that great turf fires are raging on the Scheweges Moor, near Oshabrieck, and already 10,000 tons of turf have been…

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Great Burst of Shell-fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 46

"An interval of oppressive silence was suddenly broken by a tremendous burst of Turkish shells and shrapnel on the French front, accompanied from the Straits by…

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German Chemical Works on Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 20

Amsterdam messages state that Berlin newspapers report that a big fire has occurred in the United Chemical Works, at Charlottenburg…

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Company of French Trapped. Four Days Under Fire

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 6

Company fighting took place on the summit of Hilsnefirst. By a ruse the Germans completely encircled a company. which hurriedly fortified itself…

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Success in Gallipoli Hills Covering Krithia Occupied Fierce Turkish Massed Attacks Fade Away Before Allies' Fire the Dardanelles. Turks Reckless of Life. Unlimited Troops on the Peninsula. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 2

Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the war correspondent representing the British newspapers at the Durdunelles has cabled as follows:-…

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Massacre, Fire & Destruction

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 July 1915 · page 4

The committee had before them a very valuable mass of evidence from witnesses of repute of what accurred in Louvain. On the [?]vning of the 25th firing could…

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The Recent Hillston Fires. Alleged Arson. The Jury Disagree

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 July 1915 · page 4

At the Court of Quarter Sessions, at Hay, on Friday, before Mr. Judge Rogers, Patrick Joseph Madden and James Aberline were charged for that…

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Austrians Fire on Priest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 July 1915 · page 21

It is reported semiofficially from Rome that while a surpliced priest, accompanied by two medical stretcher-bearers, under the white flag, were burying 30 Austrians,…

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Massacre, Fire, & Destruction

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 July 1915 · page 3

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

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Fire on the Benalla. Now Under Control. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 July 1915 · page 2

Anxiety regarding the safety of the large number of persons aboard the P. and O. branch line steamer Benella, which caught fire when 800 miles east of Durban, was…

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Shooting Sensation at Wallerawang. Exciting Struggle With Armed Desperado. Who Fires Four Shots. and Turns Revolver on Himself

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 4

A desperate fight, with an armed man took place in Wallerawang police station at 1.30 on 14th inst., in the course of which four shots were…

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