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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1915

164 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 9

Distillery on Fire. Stream of Flaming Whisky. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1915 · page 4

Great crowds gathered in Glasgow early this morning, and watched the contents of 12,000 casks of whiskly flow flaming into the North Canal from the seven-storied…

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Tighe's Hill. New Fire Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1915 · page 9

The fire brigade has entered into occupation of the new station, which has been erected at the junction of Maitland-road and Ferndale and Henry streets the…

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A Wrecked Town. Stricken by Shell Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1915 · page 3

In a further series of articles dealing with France and the war. Mr. Rudyard Kipling gives some graphic descriptions of his experiences at the front. The…

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On the West Front. Continuous Artillery Fire Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1915 · page 5

A French communique issued yesterday states:—The Entente guns are active along the entire front at Hartmansweilerkepf…

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