Big Fires in France
LONDON, Feb. 15.—Vichy Radio reports that a big fire broke out among the depots, warehouses, and shops in Marseilles…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 22
Inquiry Opens Into Fire on Normandie
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The Secretary, for the Navy (Colonel Knox) has convened a Navy Court of Inquiry into the cause of the fire on the…
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LONDON, Sunday (O.S.R. and A.A.P.)—With the capitulation of Singapore, the full force of Japanese sea, land and air operations is now being diverted to the Dutch East Indies…
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Approximately 250 teachers from the Newcastle district attended the Hamilton Girls' School yesterday for the second series of lectures…
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(A.A.P.).— Japanese guns bombarded General Macarfhur's defiant army on Bataan Peninsula…
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In a sudden air raid much needless damage can be caused by fires if members of the public are not prepared to act…
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"In an air raid much needless damage can be caused by fires if people are not prepared to act immediately to protect their own…
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WOLLONGONG. — Fire broke out late lust night near the stairs of Miloy Guest House, a two-storey building…
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LONDON, Feb. 19.—Fires have broken out all over Norway. A newly installed transformer in the aluminium rolling mills at…
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The original hand fire brigade reel made for the Merewether Volunteers in 1891 is still in good condition and stands equipped with…
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LONDON, January 20. (Air Mail).— An aircraft factory laborer filling his petrol lighter from a petrol pump near an aeroplane,…
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More mysterious fires are reported from Norway. In one town a building in which a German banquet was being held…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—With flames singeing their faces, arms and clothing. 13 men and two girls made a frantic race for safety when the…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—It has been definitely proved that no sabotage was involved in the fire which caused the eventual total loss of the…
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SYDNEY.— Struck by a fire engine which was returning to Windsor from Richmond last night. L.A.C.D.M. Pengally, 27, was…
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NEW YORK, January 26. (Air Mail).—A noisy party in the modern apartment house at 402 East Fifty-fifth Street, the rear of…
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Supported by a number of the residents, whose properties were endangered by the spreading fire, Wallsend and Cardiff Fire Brigades had a…
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"It is imperative that women have practical experience in dealing with incendiary bombs," said Mr. Froude, at an N.E.S. meeting of Hamilton…
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MELBOURNE.—Bushfires which blazed throughout the Heytsbury Shire, in south-western Victoria, on Tuesday were worse than those…
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Called to an outbreak of fire at Hampton Court Flats, West Maitland Fire Brigade found the roof timbering about No. 12 flat…
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