Good Save by Firemen in City Cafe Fire
Fire gutted portion of the top floor of Toni's Care, in Hunter-street, this morning. The roof of the building, which is…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 16
Catalinas Left Fires and Crippled Planes at Babo
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday.—Two important successes for the R.A.A.F. are recorded in…
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Two small fires were quickly controlled this afternoon by the Cooks Hill and Hamilton Fire Brigades…
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A thief who entered the store of H. J. Ginges, in Hunter-street West, early this morning lighted small heaps of paper on the floor in various parts…
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Six W.A.A.A.F.'s dragged furniture and personal belongings from a small weatherboard cottage which was threatened with destruction by fire…
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STOCKHOLM, May 14.—Swedish anti-aircraft guns hit a German plane that flew over the Trelleborg region (extreme southern coast) yesterday…
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Fifty incendiary bombs falling on the village of Ngazaungnpet during an attack by Allied aircraft on Japanese positions in the Taungdaung district of Burma…
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MELBOURNE.—Delegates of Fire Brigade Associations from all States except Tasmania met in conference at the Melbourne…
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A fire occurred in the kitchen of a weatherboard cottage owned by Mr. W. J. Hutchinson in Bar Beach Avenue. Merewether, this…
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All the belongings of Mrs. Myrtle White and her two daughters were lost when a fire destroyed their four-roomed…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police to-night said that a 16-year-old boy, whom they arrested at Parramatta to-day, wrote a confession, in which he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Survivors' Ordeal Saw Hospital Ship Outlined by Fire
Entangled in ropes and broken booms from the boat derricks of the stricken hospital ship Dr. Leslie Outridge had a terrifying experience in getting free. Half-stunned by the explosion, he saw the ship outlined by fire. The…
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LONDON, May 21.—A large part of the Spanish fleet is reported to have been destroyed in a fire sweeping the naval base at Ferrol…
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A six-year-old girl, Colleen Balser, of Eastville, East Maitland, received burns to the face, neck, hands, arms, body and thighs and severe…
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LONDON, Sundny.—Vichy radio has broadcast a statement by the Spanish Embassy denying that any Spanish warships were…
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The roof was damaged by flames and goods slightly damaged by smoke and water early this morning when a fire broke out in an…
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LONDON, Monday.—Dortmund, one of Germany's greatest industrial cities, lies in ruins after the heaviest air assault in history. At the rate of 35 tons a minute, 2000 tons of bombs were rained for one terrible hour during Sunday night on this city of arms, factories, steel works and petrol plants…
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LONDON, May 27.—Prisoners who helped to fight fires when Chelmsford Gaol was bombed would be rewarded, said the Home Secretary…
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When a fire broke out in Young and Greens garage about 2 a.m. to-day, two cars were badly damaged and the roof was slightly…
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Fire in the fuel oil dump at Cardiff railway workshops yesterday afternoon damaged a quantity of fuel and destroyed container drums…
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