Flames Check Efforts to Save Property Railwayman Heavy Loser in Kelly's Plains Blaze
Money and blankets were all that was saved from a house which was destroyed by fire at Kelly's Plains on Saturday afternoon…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
184 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 10
Air Raid Fighters Increasing Demand for Fire Appliances
The stirrup pump now installed in thousands of British households to cope with incendiary bombs is still being turned out by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire
A weatherboard cottage, the property of Mr. W. H. Milkinson, of Woodville, Uralla, was destroyed by fire late on Monday night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fight After Cease Fire Order (Australian Associated Press.) HONG-KONG
Thailand and Indo-China accuse each other of continuing to tire after the time set for the armistice…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London's Worst Dayhie Blitz for Months Fire Bombs Promptly Extinguished LONDON
The Luftwaffe to-day put new energy Into its raids, giving London area ts worst day-time blitz for months. Earlier single enemy aircraft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stiff Fight to Take Derna Troops Advance Under Heavy Fire Army Rests Before Westward Push (Australian Associated Press.) London
Australian and British troops took Derna—the fall of which was announced this morning—in a series of small operations lasting from the week-end. The garrison is believed to total 10,000, including…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The Fireworks That Fizzled Out" London's Description of Inceendiary Raid "Roll Out the Fire Hose"
In September,1666, the Great Fire [?] burned for three days [?] 400 streets and 13,200 [?] the evening of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hay Fire Isolates Southern Centres SYDNEY
A fire which started in some stacked hay in a paddock about two miles from Junee destroyed telegraphic communications with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Catches Fire
John Sweeney and his wife, Ellen May Sweeney, of Moree, were admitted to hospital suffering from severe burns, the former from the hips down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Genoa Bombed Enormous Damage Many Large Fires LONDON
Over 300 tons of shells were fired against military targets during a British naval bombardment of Italian bases in the Gulf of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clothes on Fire Man Dies From Burns MELBOURNE
With his clothes on fire, Charles Parkinson (33) raced across a paddock at a farm near Ballarat yesterday, pe had been handling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nazis in Fire Irate Fran's Bad Temper
Gestapo activities in Eire are directed by Herr Thomsen, a leading member of the German Legation in Dublin, who has caused great resentment…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FIRES-EXPLOSIONS In Enemy Territory LONDON
Planes of the Coastal Command, despite marked deterioration in weather, carried out attacks on targets in north-west Germany,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Bombs Dropped on a London District
LONDON, Monday.—After a short alert without incident this afternoon, London to-night was apparently the principal target…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fire of War "Has Moved Closer to Australia" SYDNEY
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, speaking in Melbourne last night, said there was very definite evidence that the fire of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Invasion Ports Bombed Ship Set on Fire LONDON
The British Air Ministry announces that the Bomber Command attacked docks at Boulogne and Calais last night. Large fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?] Sudden Fire Rescued by Youth SYDNEY
Miss Mollie Broad [?] employee had a narrow escape from losing her life when a three story building at Lewisham burst into flames suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Channel Ports Blasted Despite Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire LONDON
Royal Air Force bombers this atternoon made an offensive sweep across the Channel and attacked shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bulgaria Caught in Cross-. Fire
Threatened by Germany and warned by Britain, faced by Nazi hordes ton her northern frontiers in Romania and by Greek…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Bomb Cologne Many Munition Targets Fires Started—much Damage Four Machines and Two Fighters Missing LONDON
Cologne, the third largest city in Germany, packed with such industries as heavy engineering works, chemical factories, oil refineries and synthetic oil plants, as…
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