Fire on British Gunboat Shanghai, August 15
Wuchow forts, which are held by Kwangsi provincial troops, fired on the British gunboat Seamew, believing her to be a Nanking Government vessel. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1936
878 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 44
MAITLANDKURRI—CESSNOCK West Maitland Motor Cycle on Fire
A motor-cycle and side-car, the property of Mr. A. G. Tegg, of High-street, West Maitland, caught alight near the West Maitland Town Hall, in High-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →FELL 30 FEET Electrician Badly Injured Part of Fire Escape Broke Sydney
When part of the fire escape he was ascending collapsed at a city building to-day, Ernest Harnisch, 60, an electrician, fell 30 feet to the ground, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Movies at Fires Board's New Plan of Teaching Sydney
Firemen in future will do their work before the camera even though they do not see it. They will be photographed in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wyong Theatre Set on Fire Coroner's Finding. Wyong
At the conclusion of an inquiry into the destruction by fire of the Coronet Theatre, Wyong, on July 18, the District Coroner (Mr. W. E. Kirkness)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Civilians Use Machine Gun to Fire on Train Jerusalem
One passenger was killed and nine were injured when a train passing through the Jewish settlement at Tel Aviv was fired on with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Massacre in Badajoz 2000 Loyalists Already Executed Bodies Burned in Huge Fires Pavement Near Rebel Headquarters Runs with Blood: More Moroccan Troops Arriving (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, August 17
The civil war in Spain is raging with undiminished ferocity, and both sides are shooting prisoners with or without summary courts-martial. Journalists who visited the ruined city of Badajoz report that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Machine Gun Used Civilians Fire on Train Palestine Disturbances Jerusalem, August 17
One passenger was killed and nine were injured when a train passing through the Jewish settlement at Tel Aviv was fired on with a machine-gun. This is the first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Spanish Babies Born Under Shell Fire LONDON
A "News Chronicle correspondent, clambering over the wreckage in San Sebastian caused by the explosion of a 12-inch shell from the rebel warship Espana, visited the maternity ward of the hospital. Eighteen babies were born under shell fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wyong Fire "Deliberately Caused," Says Coroner Destruction of Theatre Wyong
A verdict that the Coronet Theatre at Wyong was deliberately set on fire on June 18 by a person or persons unknown was returned by the Wyong District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boolaroo Grass Fire
The Boolaroo Fire Bridge received a call at 4.45 p.m. yesterday to a grass fire in Lewis-street, Boolaroo, which was threatening houses in the neighbourhood. Three…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Destroys Old Tapestry Sydney
Awakened by dense smoke early today. Mrs. James Woodyer discovered the lounge-room of her home at Killara to be ablaze. She quickly aroused her…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Escaped by the Windows Fire at Coolamon Coolamon
Early to-day a four-roomed timber cottage, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. D. B. McLelland, was burned. Friends of the family, Mrs. Stephen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fire Big Blaze at Woy Woy Homes Were in Danger Gosford
Woy Woy's most serious bush fire for a long time occurred late this afternoon. Only good work by the Woy Woy and Ettalong volunteer fire brigades saved…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Grass and Fence Fires
Stocken and New Lambton are brigades turned out to-day to small blazes, which did very little damage. At Stockton, several panels of fencing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Stockton
Stocking Brigade was called late this morning to a grass fire on a vacant allotment in Dunbar-street adjacent to the residence of Mrs. Devereaux. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man's Clothes on Fire
While working in the railway quarry at Martin's Creek yesterday, Oscar Norman, a trimmer, of Ada-street, Homeville, sustained burns to both legs when a piece…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Blaze at Wickham
Shortly afterwards headquarters brigade was called to a grass fire at Wickham. A very small area of grass was burned and the flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fires Wallsend Outbreaks
Two outbreaks of fire in the dried grass on the tramway embankment between the hospital and White Gates stopping places at Wallsend had the attention of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Bush at Kahibah
Fanned by a strong wind, a fire in the bush near Kahibah spread rapidly this morning and Adamstown Fire Brigade was called…
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