£10,000 DAMAGE Fire in Melbourne Loss by Wool Brokers Melbourne
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused to-night by a fire which broke out in a three-storied building occupied by several firms of wool and skin brokers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1937
706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 36
Just One Word Made All The Difference Japanese Order To Fire LONDON
The "Japanese blame the omission of one word in an order for all the trouble with foreign Powers on the Yangtse…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Big Death Roll Stampede During Fire in Japan Film Show at School Tokio, December 21
Five hundred people stampeded when fire broke out in a primary school at Wakayama during the showing of a news-reel to-day. So far 78 bodies, of which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bushfire Havoc in New Zealand Auckland
Timber destroyed by bush fires in the Rotorua district in November was worth £500,000. A long spell of exceptionally hot weather has made the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Worst in 20 YEARS New Zealand Bush Fires Wellington (N.z.)
The Commissioner of State Forests (Mr. Langstone) to-day said that the bush fires in the Dominion last month were the worst for 20 years, the loss of timber…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Blaze New Air Route London Society Woman's Plans LONDON, December 23
According to the "Daily Mirror," a member of Mayfair society, Mrs. M. Kingfarlow, who is a granddaughter of the late Lord Runciman, is preparing to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Danger Averted Gush from Petrol Waggon SYDNEY
Firemen had to be hurriedly summoned to-day, when more than 100 gallons of petrol gushed from a petrol waggon in Marrickville after the draining plug had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mysterious Fire On French Battleship Sabotage Suspected Paris, December 24
Sabotage is suspected to be the cause of a mysterious fire which occurred on board the almost completed 26,000-ton battleship Strasburg at the St. Nazaire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boys Blamed Camperdown Blaze Rice Mills Damaged Sydney
A suspicious fire occurred in the Camperdown mills of Australian Rice Ltd. to-day. It is believed that boys broke into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Mental Asylum Ghastly Scenes In French Institution PARIS
At least eight lives were lost in a fire following Christmas celebrations at Mount Redon lunatic asylum, near Le Puy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hut on Fire Aged Cripple Burned to Death Heat Drove Rescuers Back Sydney
Robert Joseph McDermott, 87, an old-age pensioner and a cripple, of Camden, was burned to death early to-day when his but caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosives Fire Rush From Danger at Nobel Factory Train Services Stopped London, December 25
Seven hundred employees of the Nobel explosive factory at Falkirk, rushed out on, Christmas Eve without their pay, when a fire broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Need for Care Lighting Camp Fires Safety Principles
Fire is such a serious menace to life and property that a word of warning to campers is never out of place. As the majority of campers nowadays are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dangerous Lunatics Are At Large Escaped After Fire At French Asylum PARIS
Following the fire in a lunatic asylum at Le Puy the womenfolk have barricaded themselves in their homes and their men have joined the police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prisoners at Dubbo Attack Warders Serious Fire] In Gaol At Parramatta SYDNEY
Incidents in two gaols are being inquired into by officials of the Prisons Department. The second incident occurred on Sunday afternoon in Dubbo Gaol, where two prisoners made a desperate attempt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →H.M.V. Records Go Up in Smoke in Factory Fire London
A watchman was burnt to death and stock valued at £30,000, including 80,000 gramophone, wireless and television records, was destroyed in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lunatics in Panic Fire in French Asylum Fought Rescuers Savagely Paris, December 25
At least eight lives were lost when fire broke out after the Christmas celebrations at Mont Redon lunatic asylum, near Le Puy, which accommodated 3000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train on Fire Tokio, December 28
A burning cigarette ignited a consignment of celluloid toys aboard a train, and set the train on fire near Moji. There were seven deaths and 35 people injured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£30,000 BLAZE His Master's Voice Company Watchman Burned to Death London, December 27
A watchman was burned to, death and stock valued at £30,000, including 80,000 records and gramophone, wireless, 'and television sets, were destroyed in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sweeping South Japanese Believed to Have Taken Wongnan Island Tsinanfu Soon Fell Buildings Set on Fire by Retreating Chinese (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, December 28
It is reported that the Japanese have occupied Wongnan Island, near Portuguese Macao, in South China. The city of Macao, which lies 70 miles south of Canton, was awakened at dawn by seven reports of heavy artillery, 10 miles…
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