Turin Bombed New Weapon Many Fires LONDON
For the first time the R.A.F.'s new 8000lb. bomb was used against Italy last night when a strong…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
228 stories in New England's papers · page 11 of 12
Fire Brigade Inspection Proves Satisfactory
On Saturday Inspector E. J. Parkes and Motor Officer G. Eadie, of New South Wales Fire Brigade, visited Armidale on a tour of inspection…
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The local V.D.C. and a visiting officer of the New South Wales Fire Brigade co-operated in extinguishing a rubbish and grass fire at the rear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Awful Fire 432 KILLED Catastrophe In Boston (A.A.P. News) BOSTON
It is now officially estimated that 432 persons lost their lives and nearly 200 were injured in a fire which broke out in the famous…
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Police and fire officials who are investigating the worst American fire disaster in four decades, asserted that panic claimed far…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cabaret Fire Death Roll Grows Boston
The death roll as a result of the cabaret fire is increasing almost hourly. At present it stands at 482, of whom 423 are identified and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Night Club Fire Number of Victims Grow BOSTON
The death roll as the result of the cabaret fire is increasing almost hourly. At present it stands at 482. of whom…
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A Boston (USA) message on Monday stated that 432 persons lost their lives and nearly 200 were injured in a fire which occurred in the famous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Fires in Glen Innes This Week
At 8.35 on Monday morning the Glen Innes fire Brigade received a call to a house at 17 Macquarie St., to quell a fine which had broken out…
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The Public Safety Committee has announced that the dead in the Cocoanut Grove fire has reached 490…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Death Roll in U.S. REACHES 490 BOSTON
The Public Safety Committee announced that the dead in the Cocoanut Grove tire total 190. Only three bodies are unidentified…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bizerta Raided Huge Fires Started LONDON
British bombers made a fire-raising raid on Bizerta docks on Saturday. A correspondent says the blaze could be seen for a hundred miles. With the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at University SYDNEY
Damage amounting to many thousands of pounds was caused by a fire, which, burned out the chemical laboratories at Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damaging Fire Sydney University SYDNEY
Damage amounting to many thousand of pounds was caused by a fire which burned out the chemical laboratories at Sydney University last night…
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LONDON,Sunday— It is from Moscow that the Red Army, which has already Captured 63 settlements on the Stalingrad front, is concentrating mainly on German manpower rather than territorial gains. Enemy division encircled in this area are tyying desperately to break…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →University Fire Boys May Have Been Responsible
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Possibility that Loys may have been responsible for the fire at the chemistry laboratories at Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Cost of Protecting Glen Innes Against Fire
A statement forwarded by, the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales showing the estimated expenditure of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires From Wrecked Turin Light Up the Alps Allied Bombers Meet With Little Opposition
LONDON, Wednesday—More 8,000 lb, bombs, many 4,000 pounders and tens of thousands of incendiaries were dropped on objectives in Tuna last night. Clear weather and skilfully placed flares made for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bombs on Turin Start New Fires London
A strong force of bombers again attacked Turin on Wednesday night, the second night in succession. Smoke from fires started in a raid…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Woman Army Driver who Braved Fire and Explosions
Driver Joan Morris, of the A.T.S., on duty with a South-eastern Command unit, has been cited for gallantry. When fire destroyed part of an ammunition dump, she drove fire fighters and equipment up to the danger zone, where she remained for a considerable period H.M.S. "WARSPITE" of Narvik Fame--Still on the Job. Picture shows a Walrus plane being catapulted from the British battleship H.M.S. Warspite-- famous for her successful attack on Narvik at the head of British destroyer, in April. 1940, and still doing fine A British Fleet Air Arm Gunner--Guardian of the Allied Sea Lanes. A typical British Fleet Air Arm gunner, whose constant watchfulness contributes so much towards the safe arrival of convoys bringing vital war supplies and weapons for the use of the Allied Armies. DIRECTING BRITISH GUN-FIRE IN THE BATTLE OF EGYPT. Picture shows: British artillery officer at a control post directing gunfire to where it will hurt the enemy most: a battle picture…
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