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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1918

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New Zealand Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 February 1918 · page 4

A big fire is reported to be raging in Wanganui (New Zealand), possibly destroying the whole of a business block…

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Enemy Strengthens Defences. Abnormal Artillery Fire. London

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 26 February 1918 · page 5

The "Times" correspondent at British Headquarters states that the artillery fire has been abnormal. Our airmen had a brilliantly busy and…

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A Fire Mystery "The Man in the Straw Hat."

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1918 · page 6

Last week the Glen Innes coroner conducted an inquiry into a fire which, destroyed a motor garage there, occupied by a local engineer…

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Russians Cease Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1918 · page 4

A wireless Russian official message states Krylenko has ordered the Russians to cease hostilities, but to remain in their present, positions…

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The Fire Fiend

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 8 March 1918 · page 2

Last week the residence of Mr. David Ramage, of Guyra road, was completely destroyed by fire and the occupants escaped with…

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Disastrous Fire

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 12 March 1918 · page 5

A fire at Coolamon destroyed twelve business places. Most of the buildings were partly covered by insurance…

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Smugglers under Fire. £3000 Worth of Opium Taken

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1918 · page 6

A sensational affair occurred at Balmain early on Thursday morning. when two smugglers got away with £3000 worth of opium in a fast motor car…

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Disastrous Fire

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 21 March 1918 · page 4

The fire which swept Chakane and Rangmtans; New Zealand, was the most disastrous is the history of the Dominion. The loss of timber mills…

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Cyclone and Fire. Devastation in New Zealand

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 21 March 1918 · page 3

Assisted by a cyclonic disturbance which is raging over a part of the North island, a fire completely destroyed Racibl, with the exception of the railway…

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The Tanks. German Account of Their Doings. Fire Spitting Monsters

Guyra Argus · Thursday 21 March 1918 · page 3

Writing from The [?] recently, the "Daily Mail" correspondent quotes from the "Cologne Cazette' Dr. Georg Weg[?] account of the part taken by…

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Big Fires in New Zealand. Town Completely Destroyed

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1918 · page 3

A Wellington (N.Z.) message says: Assisted by a cyclonic disturbance, which was raging over part of the North Island, a fire completely…

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Fire in Picture Show

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 March 1918 · page 4

A box of film caught fire in the operating room of the Theatre Royal last night during the screening of a picture. The film was destroyed, but no other…

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Two Divisions Wiped Out. Germans Never Fire a Shot

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 March 1918 · page 4

Reuter's Paris correspondent learns from a French war correspondent that two fresh German Divisions, proceeding towards the front, were almost…

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Suburban Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1918 · page 4

A fire at Bexley at an early hour this morning destroyed a cottage occupied by Mrs. Isabel Johnson, her sister, and two children…

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Deadly Artillery Fire

The Inverell Times · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 2

Mr. Hamilton Fyfe ("Daily Mail") writes:—Prisoners agree that the German losses at Arras were very heavy; some say 60 per cent. The artillery…

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Bush Fires in New Zealand

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1918 · page 8

During the hush fire which swept great areas of country along the Main Trunk Railway, destroyed a considerable portion of the town of…

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Priest Wins M.c. Assisting Wounded Under Fire

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 9 April 1918 · page 6

Chaplain-Father Bossence, of Gundagai, has been awarded the Military Cross, concerning which His Lordship, Bishop Gallagher, has received the…

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Setting Fire to Crops

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1918 · page 2

AT the sittings of the Bundaberg (Q) Cirquit Court, Max Falgerno and Arthur Dazz, two unnaturalised Germans pleaded guilty to charges of wilfully setting fire…

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40 Gothas Lost. Friedrichshafen Fire

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at Paris reports that it is stated in a Zurich telegram that the explosion at Friedrichshafen on Saturday destroyed the…

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Our Serial Story. The Copyright of this Charmingly-written Serial Tate has been purchased fry the Proprietors of this Journal. (Copyright.) the a Romance of the English Cotton Mills. Part 23. Chapter Xxiv. the Knell of Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 8

For a couple of days after that very foolish escapade of his George Maskell was a most sad and thoughtfor man. As he had declared, so…

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