Real Life Fire-works
"I have been nine months in Brisbtel, and there is not much I have not experienced in the way of bombing," wrote Mr. Wilfred Martin to a relative in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 19
£8000 Timber Fire in Tasmania
LAUNCESTON.—Plant and buildings valued at more than £8000 were destroyed and assets of more than £10,000 rendered idle by a fire which destroyed…
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Wallsend firemen, under Captain W. Dobell, worked for almost an hour last night to avert danger to a house from a bush fire south of the top of…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Tests will be made next week of a new Australian invention, the Kirby gun, which is a powerful mortar fired by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sunday N.e.s. "Blitz" Under Fire by Some Clergymen
Some Newcastle clergymen to-day objected to the proposed mock "blitzkrieg" on Newcastle on Sunday afternoon, December 14, describing it as a "desecration of the Sabbath." Their view was not shared by the Bishop of Newcastle (Rt…
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Particular attention will be paid to bush-fire prevention this summer because of extreme drought conditions. The State Government's bush-fire…
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A fire broke out last night in on oil vat at the Australian Wire Rope Works Ltd., Mayfield. About 600 gallons of oil were stored…
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A small fire which broke out in the rear of a grocery shop in Georgetown Road, Georgetown, this morning, was quickly extinguished. Little damage…
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LONDON, October 17 (Air Mail) — A smoking, crippled Wellington night bomber landed at a Royal Air Force aerodrome,…
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SYDNEY.—Australia's dancer from bushfires this summer—unless the expected heavy rains fall—is the greatest in her history…
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MELBOURNE.—Raider survivors have told naval interrogators that H.M.A.S. Sydney had its seaplane poised for launching when the Kormoran's first salvo crashed upon the cruiser. A reconstruction by naval experts is that the plane's petrol tank exploded,…
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Tarro Shire Council was advised today that contributions for municipalities and shires within the Maitland Fire District for 1942 had been fixed as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mysterious Fires Destroy Germans' Supplies
LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—Large German supplies of ammunition, chocolate, coffee, brandy and wine destined for the Finnish front…
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HONGKONG, Wednesday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.).—Hongkong Island fortress guns have gone into action for the first time in history, shelling Japanese troops and artillery, which have infiltrated along Castle Peak Road, on the mainland, five or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mystery Fires Destroy Nazi Supplies in Norway
LONDON, Dec. 11.—The Norwegian Telegraph Agency says the second large fire at Trondheim in two months destroyed large quantities of the Germans'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Fighters Killed by Plane
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—While walking across a paddock four miles from Benalla to fight a fire on a neighbour's property, two men were killed and two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fifth Column Blamed Arrow of Fires in U.S.A.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—State police found a series of fires near Port Angeles, forming arrows pointing to Seattle. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boot Factory Destroyed By Fire At Glen Innes
GLEN INNES: Fire gutted Whyte's boot factors last night and destroyed several thousand pair of military boots…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle's Women Fire Fighters
Three thousand women are being trained in New South Wales as a Women's Fire Auxiliary. In Newcastle 32 W.A.N.S. have received…
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Falling into a heap of hot ashes. Kenneth Slade, aged 18 months, of Aberdare Road, Aberdare, was badly burned about the right leg. Cessnock…
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