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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 16
LONDON, Friday: The Lebanese crisis has quickly led to bloodshed In Beirut, sans Reuter's correspondent. French tanks and armored cars appeared in the streets of Beirut (capital of Lebanon) yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Newcastle competed in a new test for fire auxiliaries at Manly this afternoon. In the motor control test for women…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Nov, 15.—French troops fired on a large crowd of Lebanese students outside the British Legation in Beirut during the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stage timbering and flooring were damaged by fire yesterday in the old Prince Edward cinema theatre in Cowper-street, Wallsend. Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY—A spectacular factory blaze in Botany Road. Waterloo, early today did damage estimated at many thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Trying to save motor-trucks from damage, seven men and two youths were trapped in a blazing paper store…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Insurance rates for homes and business premises will be lessened generally throughout Greater Newcastle if council agitation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before firemen could get to the heart of a fire in the hold of a ship at an Australian port yesterday, a hole was cut in the ship's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When a cottage was destroyed by fire at Kilaben Bay yesterday afternoon the occupants, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gill and family, lost all their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Vast fires are destroying Berlin from more than 5000 tons of bombs dropped in three great raids. Berlin is now the most bombed city in the world. It has taken 12,000 tons this year—more than was needed to wipe out Hamburg—and Berliners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON. Friday.— US medium and lighter bombers have damaged railway bridges north of Swatow, on the south-east coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday.—German radio reports that the Great Hall at Oslo University, which has been used by the German Army, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—Mitchell medium bombers in New Guinea are now equipped with 75-m.m. cannon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Liberators, with strong Lightning escort, heavily attacked aircraft dispersal areas and supply dumps at Wewak and Boram aerodromes on Sunday. This attack followed a bombing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Although Australia was a great storehouse for the United Nations, supplying food, timber and other vital raw materials,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A small fire at Goninan's Pty. Ltd. works at Broadmeadow was extinguished this morning by the Newcastle Fire Brigade. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Estimated expenditure of the Board of Fire Commissioners for the Greater Newcastle fire district for the corning year is £31,956…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—A double-decker bus, carrying 60 school children, caught fire outside Strathfield railway station this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—A fire which started at Speare's brick and pipe works at Lakemba to-night, and destroyed many thousands of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Two shots were fired at escaping intruders who had beaten up a night watchman at Redfern early to-day…
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