Disastrous Fire in Japan Tokio, January 15
A fire destroyed 2000 houses in Shizuoka, and 300 people have been killed, according to the United Press. The Domei news agency states that troops…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
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Hundreds Dead in Japanese City Fire London
Fire destroyed 8500 dwellings and made 50,000 homeless when it swept the city of Shizouka (Japan)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Killed in R.A.A.F. CRASH Stalled in Formation Flight Plane Destroyed by Fire Melbourne
Two Air Force men were killed to-day when an aeroplane in which they were training crashed about a mile from the Laverton air station and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →False Alarm for Fire Brigade
A call from the fire alarm-box on the corner of Elgin and Parallel Streets, West Maitland, last night, proved a hoax for members of West Maitland Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Japanese Fire Looses Tokio, January 16
The disastrous fire, which swept through Shizouka, 90 miles from Tokio destroyed 8500 dwellings, and made 50,000 persons homeless. The casualties were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Air Raids on Finland Trial of Fire and Desolation LONDON, January 16
Clear, frosty weather to-day again brought waves of Soviet bombers into Finland for the fifth day in succession, forcing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lightning Started Fires Canberra
Lightning started about a dozen fires in the mountains near Canberra last night, but rain, which the lightning heralded, extinguished all but one…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Car Catches Fire at Boolaroo
Prompt action by the Boolaro fire brigade prevented serious damage to a motor-car which caught fire in Boolaroo last night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Girls Faced Fire Bravely Sydney
When fire broke out in a factory at North Sydney this morning 30 girls stood at their posts with smoke and paint fumes around them until firemen arrived to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bushfire Menaces House At Kotara
A house at Kotara near the Kotara Colliery, was menaced by a bushfire this afternoon Adamstown Fire Brigade attended and soon had the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires in District Many Properties Threatened
Many properties were threatened by bushfires in all Darts of the district yesterday. Damage, however, was confined to bush, scrub, and grass. Firemen were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District Ringed by Bush Fires Ten Brigades Fight 20 Outreaks Women and Girls Join in Fight with Flames
Ten Newcastle fire brigades fought 20 bushfires which ringed the district to-day. Women and girls assisted Charlestown brigade to fight the largest outbreak of the season when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bus with Troops Catches Fire Sydney
Members of the Second A.I.F. on leave had some exciting moments yesterday when the bus in which they were travelling taught fire on the route from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →British Cabinet Under Fire "Confidence Lacking in Certain Ministers" Reconstruction Urged (Australian Association Press.) LONDON, January 21
"Parliament has reassembled with increased feeling that there is a lack of confidence in certain Ministers," said Major Sir Ralph Glyn, member for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Militia Fight Fire
THE MILITIA TURNED OUT at Maitland yesterday to fight a large bushfire. Picture shows men of the 8th Infantry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Barber's Saloon
Wallsend Fire Brigade last night was called to the barbering saloon of Mr. Robert Riebe, at 121 Nelson-street, Wallsend. A chemical extinguisher was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Hose Helps Rescue Monkey New York, Dec. 27
Firemen called to rescue a monkey perched 65 feet high in a tree at Pueblo, U.S.A., discovered the available ladders would not reach. So…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Scrub Fires Over Wide Northern Area Serious Property Damage Averted in Grim Fights Militiamen Help Save Remount Depot at Rutherford
Extensive bush fire outbreaks threatened homes and other property at many points in the Newcastle district and on the Coalfields yesterday. Firemen, in most cases assisted by volunteers, fought…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Italian Liner on Fire More Than Hundred Missing (Australian Associated Press.) TOULON, January 22
Five hundred and thirty-nine passengers from the Italian liner Orazio (11,669 tons), which caught on fire 100 miles from Barcelona, have been accounted for, but…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bushfires Again Blazing Over Wide Area
HOUSEHOLDERS AND YOUTHS JOINED FIREMEN in desperate battles against bush fires which raged over a wide area in the Newcastle suburbs to-day. This picture shows flames sweeping right up to the fence of a collage of the Pacific Highway about a mile beyond Adamstown. SWIRLING BILLOWS OF SMOKE surround a piggery plant on Mr. R. Read's property on Warner's Bay Road as an…
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