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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1918

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Blasting Fire From All Sides Communications Bombed

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 6

The United Press correspondent states that the Germans attacked Fletre in the morning, but were stopped dead on the left. The…

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MISCELLANEOUS. The Prevention of Fire. In Grain Crops

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 August 1918 · page 4

The following recommendations for wheat growers have been issued by the College of Agriculture of the University of California:--…

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Fismes Under Fire

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 9 August 1918 · page 6

The advance menaces the German position as far as Flsmes, an Important communication point where the railways meet, which is now subjected…

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Enemy Artillery Fire Increases. Showng Arrival of Reinforce Ments

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 August 1918 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at the British Headquarters, telegraphing on Monday evening, says: Stiff fighting was in progress to-day, the main feature of which…

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The Council and Fire Brigade

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 August 1918 · page 2

A lengthy and somewhat animated discussion took place at Tuesday evening's meeting of the Municipal Council anent a published report to the…

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The Council and the Fire Brigade. the Motor Engine. Not Wanted by the Council

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 August 1918 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of the Municipal Council on Tuesday evening, the Mayor, in the course of a verbal report on several different matters,…

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Australians' Exploits. Machine Guns Fire. by Light of Great Flares. with the Australians. France

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 August 1918 · page 2

Travelling over portions of the old battlefield to-day one would think that it was a great Australian picnic ground. The] boys are resting and recuperating, lolling…

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Scrap Book. in the Fire's Glow

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 August 1918 · page 12

We sit before a leaping, crackling fire, And you talk of war; In the red glow the fire visions grow, Horror, fear, the glory of it all…

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Bridges Kept Under Fire

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 August 1918 · page 2

In a message from the American Headquarters in France, Reuter's correspondent says:— The enemy is feeling the afreets of our…

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Enemy Artillery Fire Weak

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 August 1918 · page 2

The enemy's artillery retaliation is comparatively weak. Croiselles still remains German, and the sunken roads north and west of it are strongly held by enemy…

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Clare of Fires and Clash of Steel

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 August 1918 · page 28

The fighting for Bapaume and along the Scrape River (east of Arras) is of the fiercest nature. Many hand-to-hand encounters with bayonets and grenades have…

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Lady Bank Clerk and the Fire Remarkable Circumstances

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 August 1918 · page 4

The inquiry into the fire at the Cottesloe agency of the State Savings Bank on July 24 was concluded on Wednesday at Perth…

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Air Raids Cause Fires at Constantinople

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 September 1918 · page 2

Over a thousand houses were destroyed by fires at Constantinople, following an air raid…

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Wheat Stack Fire at Walla

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 4

A fire broke out in a wheat stack at Walla at 3 a.m. yesterday, which was in the care of Messrs John Darling and Sons Ltd. The blaze was observed by…

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Latest British Position. Fires Burning in Douai

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 September 1918 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at the British Headquarters, telegraphing on Monday, said:— Southward we have reached a line…

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Fire in Dean Street. Allen Bros. Shor Gutted. Extensive Damage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 13 September 1918 · page 2

At 2.45 this morning residents in the vicinity of the fire station were rudely awakened by the clanging of the bell. It appears that members of the railway…

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Chaotic Russia. the Bolsheviks' Reign of Terror. Reports of Appalling Atrocities Petrograd Reported to Be on Fire. Germany Collects the War Indemnity

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 September 1918 · page 2

"The Times" Stockholm, correspondent says there is an appalling prospect, of wholesale mortality and famine in Russia in the coming…

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The Dean Street Fire Allen Bros. Loss. Brigades Sp[?]d Save

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 14 September 1918 · page 3

As reported in yesterday's issue of the "Border Morning Mail," a disastrous fire broke out at 2.45 o'clock that morning in the second storey of Messrs. Allen Bros…

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Fire at Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 September 1918 · page 2

A destructive fire occurred in Towns-end-street, Albury, early on Friday morning, when a two-storey brick building, known as the Beehive…

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The Fire at Allen Eros.' an Open Verdict Returned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 September 1918 · page 4

The Coroner, Mr. G. S. Shepherd, P.M., conducted the customary inquest yesterday, con[?]arning the fire which occurred at Allen Bros' shop in the early hours of…

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