Another Fire in Normandie
NEW YORK, April 19.—Another fire which broke out yesterday on board the former French luxury liner Normandie (83,423 tons), renamed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 22
Bombs, Fires at Sports Ground A.R.P. Field Day
For six hours at the A.R.P. field day at No. 1 Sports Ground on Saturday, citizens of Greater Newcastle were shown the efficiency of N.E.S…
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Another smashing Allied attack on Rabaul, spectacular dogfights between Australian and Japanese fighters over Moresby which lasted nearly an hour, and the rescue of the crew of an American bomber which was posted missing…
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LONDON, Monday (OSR): Despite closed shops, wrecked houses and the evacuation of a considerable percentage of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Damage estimated at nearly £10,000 was caused by a fire this afternoon on the top floor of Kelly's Furniture Pty Ltd.,…
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WASHINGTON, Mon. (AAP).— Full responsibility for the £1.562,000 fire on the former French liner Normandle (83,423 tons) on…
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LONDON: For four days life-boatmen and members of the fire service of on East Coast town in England fought a fire on a ship…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.). Thursday.—Damage estimated at £50,000 was caused by fire which broke out to-day in the biggest timber yard in…
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NEW YORK, April 26.—Eighteen survivors who have landed at Norfolk, Virginia, from a medium-sized United States cargo ship that was…
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GRAFTON, Monday.—A man was fatally burned, but two other persons escaped uninjured from a blazing hotel at Jerseyville, on the Macleay…
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LONDON, April 28.—Cologne, third city of the Reich and the most important railway and industrial centre in the Rhineland, and Tronheim Fiord, on the Norwegian coast, were attacked by strong forces of…
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SYDNEY: "In the moonlight. I heard two women and a man fighting and arguing. I heard a noise as if blows had been struck…
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DALLAS (Texas), April 29.—A tornado and fire destroyed the town of Crowell (population 2000). Eleven people were killed and many were…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Details of an alleged quarrel involving mother and son were given at Hornsby Court to-day at an inquest into the…
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Considerable damage to stock was caused by a fire which broke out on the top floor of Sorby's Ltd., Hunter-street, Newcastle, yesterday…
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Newcastle police reported today that there were no suspicious circumstances connected with the fire which caused considerable…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—When a fire broke out in the Mayfair Theatre to-day 500 people were cleared from the building in two minutes. A…
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Falling 15ft. down a stairway, Leslie Thompson, 40, of Gulliver-street, Hamilton, received a probable fracture of the right arm and an injury…
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LONDON, Friday (Our Special Representative).—Three Rhode Inland towns were placed under martini law to-day, as the most…
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PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island).—A series of destructive forest fires, believed to be partly due to incendiarism, had been brought under…
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