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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

880 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 44

Reichstag Fire Dutchman's Admission Surprise at Trial London, September 29

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1933 · page 9

At the Reichstag fire trial today the President (Dr. Bunger) sprang a surprise by announcing that the Dutchman, Van der Lubbe, would be heard in regard to…

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"We Were Incited" Reichstag Fire Trial Dutchman Confesses (Australian Press Association.) LEIPZIG, September 29

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 October 1933 · page 5

When the Reichstag fire trial was continued to-day, the President of the Court read the confession of the Dutchman, Vander Lubbe, while an assistant, with a…

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Der Lubbe Insists 'He Alone Started the Blaze' Reichstag Fire Trial Leipzig

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 1

Although his replies to the simplest questions were confusing and contradictory, Van Der Lubbe, insisted at the…

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Fire "Accidental" Glen Innes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 5

Before Judge Claney in the Glen Innes Court of Quarter Sessions. Thomas Aubrey Staines was charged with maliciously setting fire to a dwelling at Emmaville…

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Pelaw Main Cottage Destroyed by Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 9

An unoccupied five-roomed weatherboard cottage in Neath-street, Pelaw Main, owned by Mr. Michael Reynolds, was completely destroyed by fire early yesterday…

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Old Merewether Fire Station Hiring Problem

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 9

The town, clerk (Mr. E. Kerr) last night reported that numerous tenders had been received with regard to the hiring of the old fire station as a…

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Los Angeles Fire 56 Dead: 100 in Hospital VANCOUVER, October 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 9

The Los Angeles fire death list stood at 27 on Wednesday night, though the Coroner (Mr. Frank Nance) said it was virtually impossible to tell whether the…

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"In Cafe When Fire Started" Accused's Story at Reichstag Trial Leipzig

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 1

Torgler gave evidence in the Supremo Court to-day that when tho alarm of the Reichstag fire was given he was in a restaurant,…

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He Was Having a Bath But Fire Brigades Turned Out Hunter-st. Comedy

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 5

While walking along Hunter-street late yesterday afternoon, a man saw smoke issuing from one of the top windows of a block of flats in…

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"Battleship of Air" Fires Shells and Does 190 M.P.H. LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 1

The new Blackburn high speed flying boat, Perth, is named in some quarters as "Battleship of the Air."…

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Fire Quelled Sydney Furrier's Office Brigades' Good Save Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 6

Firemen, made a good save to-night when a fire broke out in the city offices of Mr. M. Heilman furrier, who at present resides in Newcastle. The fire…

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Alarm Summons Fire Brigades

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 6

The clang of a sprinkler alarm, and the wail of approaching fire-engines, swiftly drew a crowd to the premises of Frede. Ash Ltd., in Hunter-street, Newcastle,…

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Boatshed and Launch Destroyed by Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 13

Newcastle police received a message, to-day that a boatshed and launch at Arcadia, on Lake Macquarie, had been destroyed by fire…

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Reichstag Fire Reconstruction of Events Contradictions at Trial Berlin, October 10

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 7

Owing to witnesses' contradictions today the Court which is hearing the Reichstag fire trial decided to arrange for the reconstruction of events on the…

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Prisoner Ejected From Court Judges Annoyed at Fire Trial Berlin

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 12

Dim[?]roft, one of the accused in the Reichstag fire trial, will be excluded from the court for three days, the Judges having ruled that his…

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Reichstag Fire Is Re-enacted Prisoners Present Berlin

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 October 1933 · page 8

Hundreds of inquisitive people gathered about the Reichstag to-day to watch the reconstruction of the fire,…

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Reichstag Fire Foreign Lawyers Protest Proceedings at Trial (Australian Press Association.) BERLIN, October 11

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 October 1933 · page 12

Five American, Bulgarian and French lawyers who are attending the Reichstag fire trial protested to the President of the Court against the exclusion of Dimitroff,…

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Seized Car Figures in Court Case Was Burned in Fire Charge Made of Receiving Allegation by Police

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 October 1933 · page 7

The car, which was discovered ablaze in the yard of the Court-house, figured as an "exhibit" in a case in which a…

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Reichstag Trial Fire Scenes Re-enacted Police Cordon Causes Accident Berlin, October 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1933 · page 10

Hundreds of inquisitive people gathered about the Reichstag to watch the reconstruction of the fire staged to clear up contradictions in the evidence given by…

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Fire at Islington Damage in Cottage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 6

About 2.30 a.m. Yesterday, Headquarters, Hamilton, and Wickham Fire Brigades, under District Officer. Hurley, attended an outbreak of fire in a two-storey…

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