Fire Threatens Arcade in Sydney Sydney
Hundreds of persons ran for their lives when a fire which, at one time, threatened the Royal Arcade, City, gutted a watch repairer's shop in the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
650 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 33
German G.P.O. Burnt Out R.A.F. Causes Chaos Railway Ruin and Plants Wiped Out London
Berlin's General Post Office is a blackened firegutted shell, the city's main gas works is a tangle of steel and wreckage, and five large factories have been burned out by British bombing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Watches and Clocks Destroyed Fire in Royal Arcade
SYDNEY, Friday.—About 2000 wanted and clocks were destroyed to-day whom a brake and in a shop occupied by the Australian Unbreakable Watch by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Oil Fire in California
TORRANCE (Calif.), October 20. A.A.P.—More than 80 acres of oil fields, were set on fire when an explosion occurred at the General Petroleum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Burns Out Mission in New Guinea Port Moresby
Travelling at tremendous speed, a huge bushfire descended, without warning, on the Catholic Mission station at Kabuna and destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press Aberdare Fire
At 3 o'clock tills morning the fire was under central. The colliery Under Manager (W. Clark) and a number of deputies entered the mine through…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aberdare Fire Poppet Head Ablaze
The pit-top and 60ft. high pop pet head at Aberdare colliery, Cessnock caught fire shortly before 1.30 o'clock this morning. Flames shot up the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Side Glances Aberdare Pit Is to Work in Fortnight Shaft Head Fire Brigade's Great Save
"Drive easy, folks—girls value new spring hah more than their lives" The announcement that Aberdare Colliery would be working again within a fortnight was made at midday to-day after the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Home Guards Increase Aberdare Fire Bomb Havoc
THE AGA KHAN, spiritual head of all Moslems, who is spending his days at Geneva. He has lost all his French property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THEIR £14 Fire Engine London. Sept. 17
For £14. A.F.s. men at Grimsby England, have made a fire engine which, they say. does work equal to that of a £1000 machine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Galway in Hotel Fire Arson Attempt Suspected
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—It is believed that a deliberate attempt was made this morning to burn down a hotel at Nelson at which the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Fire Bombs On Germany LONDON
Quoting travellers from Holland, the Swiss newspaper "Volksricht" says that during R.A.F. attacks on barge concentrations on the Rhine and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mystery Fire in Amsterdam
LONDON, Oct. 25.—Amsterdam recently had its greatest warehouse fire. Huge supplies of grain were destroyed. The origin of the fire, which lasted for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires Fanned by Westerly Outbreaks Round Sydney
SYDNEY, Sunday.—More than 10 bush fires were reported in the suburbs of Sydney today. Fanned by a strong westerly, the flames gave firemen many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mystery Fire in Amsterdam
LONDON, Oct. 27. A.A.P.—Following a mystery fire at Amsterdam's largest granary on October 9. the Nazi Gestapo are most active in searching for saboteurs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bushfire Danger Cessnock Fire Chief's Advice
"Burn off now" was the advice given to-day by the Cessnock Fire Chief (Mr. J. Danvers) to people whose homes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor-cycle on Fire
Cook's Bill fire brigade was called to a motor cycle which had caught fire in Hunter street, opposite the Civic Theatre, last night. The blaze was put out with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Almost Destroys Storeroom
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The large single-story storeroom of Butler and Norman, bottle merchants, in Mandible-street, Alexandria, was almost completely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Near Swansea
About 4 p.m. yesterday the Swansea Fire Brigade was called to a bush fire which was raging from the Pacific Highway to Little Pelican. The blaze at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Sabotage in Washington War Office Fire Washington
The Secretary of War (Mr. Stimson believes a short circuit or a cigarette butt, not sabotage, was responsible for the fire which broke out at…
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