Gave First-aid Under Fire
CANBERRA, Friday. — Captain Frederick Neil Street, of Vaucluse, Sydney, has been awarded the Military Cross for extraordinary courage…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
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Fires Started On Nauru Island
WASHINGTON, Sunday. — A Navy communique says that U.S. battleships and carriers which shelled and bombed Nauru Island…
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LONDON, Dec. 12.—General Arnold, United States Air Chief, visited the Fifth Army front yesterday with Major-General Clark,…
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LONDON.—A British merchant ship, smashed by Atlantic gales, bombed from the air torpedoed and set on fire, still got through to North African with 6000 tons of military stores—two days ahead of the convoy from which she…
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PERTH, Friday.—A Chinese, Walter Sang, who won £2000 in a lottery, threw his winning ticket into the fire…
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PEARL HARBOUR, Dec. 20—Lieut.-General Richardson has announced that the lights of Hawaii, which have been blacked…
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A new American-built fire engine, to supplement equipment, has been acquired by West Maitland Fire Brigade…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Two men and a youth were burned to death to-day, and 12 other persons were admitted to hospital…
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MELBOURNE: Six people have perished in the first big grass and bush fires of this summer, which broke out late yesterday. The fires have gathered greater strength to-day and…
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WANGARATTA.—Bushfires that wrought £50,000 damage and wipes out least nine lives at Tarrangingee were…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Seven people have lost their lives in the disastrous bush fires in the Wangaratta district. There may be…
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BRISBANE.—One of the biggest bushfires in the history of the district has already destroyed over 100.000 acres of grass at…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—It is estimated that damage totalling £50,000 was caused by the Victorian bushfires in watch nine persons, some…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The death roll in the Wangaratta bush fire disaster reached nine with the death to-day of Edward Lawrence…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) again warned of the bush fire danger. Fire defences in the State were…
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MELBOURNE.—"Any fire that broke out now would have practically an open go in one-third of Victoria's forest areas because…
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