Outbreak of Fire Next Door to Brigade
Cessnock Fire Brigade broke all records for a prompt response last night when a fire was discovered behind the Haing boards of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 16
"Italy Going Through Revolution" Army Units Refuse To Fire On Crowds
LONDON, July 29.—"There seems no doubt that Italy is going through a revolution," says the Associated Press correspondent in Bezne (Switzerland). "Marshal Badoglio hoped to stabilise an authoritarian regime, but does…
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SYDNEY—Fire destroyed all tour buildings at the timber works of A and E. Ellis Pty.. Ltd.. Uhrs Point, Rhodes. early this morning…
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Students in China felt it was essential for the sake of their country to continue their studies to produce technical men to continue the…
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Headquarters of the Newcastle City Non-Sectarian Mission, in Dangar Street, Wickham. were completely…
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A strong wind turned this church, the headquarters of the Newcastle City Non-Secretarian Mission, in Danger Street. Wickham. into a roaring inferno within a few minutes after a fire started in the rear of the building about 9 o'clock this morning. Firemen made a fine save of a weatherboard cottage next door, the wall of which was charred. Operations lasted for well…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazi Troops Fire on Italians Plan To Disarm Part Of Crete Garrison
LONDON, Sunday.—General headquarters in the Middle East announces that it has irrefutable evidence of a German plan to disarm Italian troops on Crete and arrest the Italian commanding officer and…
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LONDON, Aug. 3.—Rumanian and German fire brigades are fighting a great fire that has been raging in the entire…
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The Secretary of the Newcastle City Non-sectarian Mission (Mr. A. J. Reedman) said the work of the mission would be carried on in…
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LONDON Wednesday. — German Icng-range guns opened fire last night across the Straits of Dover for the first time in a month…
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A[?]kened early yesterday morning by flames coining through the fanlight of his bedroom in a weather-board house at "Milo," near…
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NASSAU, Aug. 5.—At the resumed hearing yesterday of the murder charge against Count Alfred de Marigny, son-in-law of Sir Harry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Missing When Home on Fire Wandered Into Bush
Whet a three-roomed house at King-street, Shortland, was being destroyed by fire yesterday, fears were entertained that a three-year…
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At Mount Tambu, New Guinea, Corporal Leslie Allan, M.M., of Ballarat, Victoria, carrying an American soldier to safety after he had been knocked unconscious by a mortar bomb. Allan carried out five men under fire…
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CANBERRA.—A Queensland militiaman, Private (Acting-Sergeant) Donald Thomas Stirling of Fernvale, Malanda, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →120 Jap Planes Destroyed Mass Attack Fires Dromes at Wewak Hundreds Killed: Enemy's Worst Air Disaster
The greatest air disaster of the South Pacific war was inflicted on the Japs early yesterday when massed Allied Air Forces caught 225 enemy planes, packed wing-tip to wing-tip on Wewak drome, and destroyed the greater number of them…
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Falling into a fire at her home last night, Norma Flanagan, 2, of Gray-street, Wickham, had her hands and arms burned. Newcastle…
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LONDON, Friday. — Anti-aircraft guns, with an increased ceiling and a higher rate of fire, will give German bombers a shock if they attempt high altitude bombing of London…
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LONDON. Sunday.—Flying Fortress pilots who last week raided deep into Bavaria to attack Regensburg. report they were set…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Shop In' Hunter Street
Fairly extensive damages was caused at Israel's Old Curiosity Shop. in Hunter Street. New castle by a fire which broke out…
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