Fire Destroys Tram Driver's Close Call After Collision
Fire destroyed a tram-car after it had collided with a Greater Newcastle Council lorry at a crossing near the Jesmond hill cutting yesterday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 16
Mystery Fire Cripples New Naval Base
SYDNEY (Nova Scotia), Oct. 13—A mysterious fire has crippled the new naval base. It spread to the nearby port, destroying half a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Human Targets Drew Jap Fire; Enemy Wiped Out
Two Australian soldiers walked almost a mile along a track from Kesewai Village, deliberately risking their lives, to draw fire from a Japanese force and so reveal its position. The ruse succeeded and resulted in an Australian force…
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SYDNEY. — A quantity of irreplaceable material was destroyed at the Bunuerong power house to-day when the main store was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fires Were Started by R.a.f. in Hanover
LONDON Tuesday. — Great fires, visible 50 miles off, were caused by the RAF raid on Hanover on Monday night. It was…
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LONDON, Wednesday. — A spare petrol tank fell from an RAP plane on a House in London yesterday and set it on fire…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—trapped by a fire at Beacon Oil Refineries (N.S.W.) Pty. Ltd., Wyndham-street, Alexandria, Osmond Lloyd, 39,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ran Gauntlet of Fire, Outwitted Enemy
Men in his platoon look up to him, though he is the youngest and greenest soldier among them. It all happened this way. When…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wall of Fire Seals. Nazi Army in Dnieper Bend
LONDON, Wednesday: Bloodiest battles of the Russian war are being fought to enclose a great German army within the Dnieper bend. This army is holding out within the city of Dnepropetrovsk and the Russians have flung a great claw 90 miles behind it…
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SYDNEY. — The Slate Government will Introduce legislation this session dealing with firemen's hours. the Premier (Mr. McKell)…
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Cook's Hill and Newcastle East fire brigades, under Inspector Johns, attended a fire in premises occupied by the Victory Sponge Shop,…
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NEW GUINEA, Sunday.—An attack by Australian Beauforts on a three-funnel Japanese cruiser which was torpedoed and set on fire before…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Firemen in a Queensland port yesterday fought a fire in a wharf shed among exploding ammunition. Although the…
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Caught between the Japanese and Australian lines. Pte. T. G. Sing, of Petersham, crouched on top of an almost impregnable knife-edge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yugoslav Party Differences Nazis Fanning Fires to Big Blaze
LONDON, Oct. 29.—"Mikhailovitch troops and Italian Blackshirts, in addition to Germans and Serb Quislings, are fighting Partisan forces in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Forde Is Under Hot Fire
SYDNEY: The Army Minister (Mr. Forde) is under hot fire from voluntary camouflage netters, the V. D. C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.s. A.a. Gun Can Fire 12 Miles
DENVER, November 3. — The United States Army has a new 120 millimetre anti-aircraft gun capable of firing 12 miles in the air, or twice…
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LONDON November 5.—Targets in western Germany were attacked by Mosquito bombers of the Royal Air Force last night. Other planes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forest Fires Sweep Crosby Ranch
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8.—Forest tires on Saint Moniea burned part of Ring Crosby's ranch, razed at least 115 homes, and threatened the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Zeros Use Fire-bombs
Japanese fighters used a new type bomb on Sunday in an effort to break an Allied bomber attack on Rabaul…
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