Mental Fire Drills
A woman was in great danger in a fire. She became confused in saving her cherished possessions, and while she was trying to find thorn, with hor escape cut…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fires & bushfires, 1918
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Huge Fire in British Columbia a Shipyard Destroyed. Vancouver
Coughlah's shipyard, the largest in the British Columbia industry, has been burned. The damage is half a million sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gothenburg Destroyed by Fire Millions Worth of Damage Done. London
A message from Copenhagen announces that a large part of Gothenburg, the second city of Sweden has been burnt out. Vast stores of provisions, acoumulated on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Oaklands
A fire occurred at Oaklands on Sunday evening last, when a wooden shop, occupied by Mr. F. Gould, fruiterer, was burnt to the ground. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Divided Russia. No Bread in Petrograd. Great Fire at Archangel. Germany Attacking Russian Ships
Reuters' Moscow correspondent says that the distribution of bread at Petrograd has ceased, and has been replaced with potatoes. Flour is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Inside the Tank. a Week's Diary of Sensations [?]Passes Unscathed Through Waves of Fire
Having been wounded while serving in a tank, a young Australian soldier has been enabled to publish in the "Manch[?]ter Guardian" his diary of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Alexander Watson. Reciting Under Shell Fire. (From the London “Daily Chroniclr”
Few civilians have had a more vivid glimpse of the fighting front of the British army than Mr Alexander Watson the well known who has just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Steamer on Fire
The Japanese freight steamer Burmah Maru, of 10,000 tons, is on fire on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Wireless reports state that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Horses Destroyed in a Fire
During a fire at Rushcutters Bay early this morning, five horses were burnt to death, the firemen being unable to reach them before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ypres Sector Under Fire to Restore Enemy Line
Early on Monday morning, says Reuter's correspondent at British Headquarters, the enemy heavily bombarded to a great depth a line from south, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under Fire From Three Sides
Reuter's correspondent at the French Headquarters, telegraphing on day, before Soissons had fallen, says that the expansion of the enemy's wings has enabled him to bring his right within a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Firm's Three Fires Bulk Stores Burnt at Scone. Sydney
Campbell and Co.'s bulk stores at Scone were totally, destroyed by fire this morning. The origin is a mystery. The damage is estimated at £1500…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Divided Russia. Brutality of Dominant Finns a Big Fire
A Russian wireless says the Central Committee of Finish Workmen protests against the White terrorism in Finland. It states that 70,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Uneasy Russia. Fire in a Munition Train London
A fire which broke out in a munition train at the Kazan station, spread to many houses and lasted all day. Seven warehouses, full of merchandise, and 350…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Wheat Fire Claim
A claim arising from a fire at Cope Cope, which on December 27 last spread from a property of Oswald Richard John Brown to the wheat crop of Albert Bugge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Munition Factory on Fire
A great fire occurred in a German munition and gun factory, and many workers and soldiers were killed, as a result of the British raids on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Inside the Tank. a Week's Diary of Sensations —Passes Unscathed Through Waves of Fire
Having been wounded while serving in a tank, a young Australian soldier has been enabled to publish in the "Manchester Guardian" his diary of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sultana Gives Mas a Plum Maltese Fires a Revolver. Broken Hill
A Maltese named Samuel Sultana, working in the South Block Mine, Broken Hill, fired three shots from a revolver at William Ivery, another employe. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Fire
The public-school at Mona Vale was destroyed by fire on Friday night. No cause is assigned, but it is thought that rate chewing matches were probably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enemy Exposed to Concentrated Fire (United Service Special Cable.)
A Paris message on Tuesday says:— The latest news from Italy indicates that the Austrian positions on Bosco Montello and Santadona are exposed to a…
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