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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 16
LONDON, Tuesday. —A stark account of German bestiality and devastation at Kharkov, so terrible you may find it impossible to believe, comes from Henry Shapirov, British United Press representative who has been visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sept. 8—Three hundred wounded Russian soldiers were slaughtered in Kharkov when the Germans locked the doors of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Most of the 50 guests, mainly women and children, had no time to gather their belongings when fire destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.—A four hours' fire at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broad-street station left 16 tracks and six passenger coaches…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Monday.—Devastating six-inch gunfire from American cruisers helped save a section of the Fifth Army in their landing assault near Salerno. Coming in close to the shore SOUVENIR: Lieut. D. S. Scott (left) and Sgt. A. W. Duff, guerrillas in Australia, found this bellytank from a Jap aircraft in a lonely part of their patrol. They were taking it back to their camp when this picture was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A small quantity of oil is believed to have leaked into an air-box under one of the boilers in the engine-room of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On August 21 a formation of Liberations was on a mission to bomb the nickel mining installations of Pomelaa, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Friday.—The city's worst clock fire for many years destroyed many thousands of pounds worth of machinery, timber, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—After strenuous efforts had been made to smother the blaze on a coal hulk, the vessel went down with most of its valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the fact that arrests have been made by the police in connection with the two fires which occurred recently in David…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 8.30 last night Newcastle Fire Brigade received a call to the American Red Cross Service Club in Thorn-street. Debris which had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four mines were idle on the Northern field yesterday. They were Milifield Greta (second day), Richmond Main (because of a fatality in the mine on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, September 23.—Naples is in flames, says the Exchange Telegraph Company's correspondent with the Fifth Army…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday.—Germany's rocket guns on the French Channel coast have barrels 100 feet long and a range of 125 miles, a Swedish journalist declares. They were intended, he says.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday.—After having been narrowly missed by an exploding shell. Second Lieutenant James A. Downard, of the US Air…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A four-story building in Clarence-street, city, the premises of G. Stuart Walker and Co. Ltd., was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE.—Valuable consignments of goods were destroyed to-day by a spark from an engine burning wood instead of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—On behalf of my wife and family. I would like to thank the people who assisted with clothing and furniture when our home was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Most grass fires are the result of carelessness, the Chief Fire Officer for the Newcastle district (Mr. Johns) said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty-four hours after pumping operations had begun, a coal hulk which had settled i n mud in deep water in an Australian port after…
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