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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
439 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 22
LONDON, Friday: A ten-hour trace operated at Calais yesterday to enable civilians in this Channel coast port to get away. B.B.C. correspondent, Pierre Lefevre, says that at a parley yesterday morning the Germans asked that Calais be declared an open city, but were told they mast fight or surrender unconditionally. The Germans then asked for a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Japanese supply train in Burma caught by cannon fire from Beaufighters of the R.A.F. Swooping over the jungle, Beaufighters have wrecked many enemy trains on their way to the front. The Japanese call Beaufighters "whispering death."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Oct. A.A.P.—Many fires still raging in the centre of Calais are spreading for lack of Mater and fire-fighters, says a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Working round - the - clock, Shifts, Bellbird Colliery shiftmen Cure gaining in their efforts to counter the fire which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After throwing kerosene into the embers of the kitchen fire at his home, Harold Benning, 14, of Campbell-street. Wallsend, was caught…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PARIS, Friday.—Fifth Columnists on Thursday night attacked two F.F.I. barracks in Paris and raked the buildings with machine-gun fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Oct. 6. A.A.P.—R.A.F. Lancasters last night staged one of their biggest fire-raising attacks on a German town…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With maximum temperature 93.2 degrees, first grass fires of the season broke out in Newcastle district yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine months after the disastrous fires of January 13 last, the Western District is still adding to its toll of losses. I could give you many instances, but two, each in its own sphere tragic, will be sufficient. They relate to the old people…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CANBERRA.—Lack of staff put Canberra Fire Brigade in a quandary yesterday, when it was unable to respond to a fire call and at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA.—Canberra is still surrounded by the thick haze of bushfire smoke, while in the mountains firebreaks are being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TWO warnings against fires were given yesterday. The Superintendent of Police (Mr. S. McCarthy): Don't let…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LITHGOW, Wednesday.—Volunteers were rushed from Portland to fight a bushfire which menaced buildings and property at Meadow Flat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—A spectacular fire broke out early this morning on the top floor of Sheffield House, Wentworth-avenue, Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NARRANDERA. — Heavy damage was caused by a fire which destroyed Wise Bros flour mills at Narrandera yesterday. The fire extended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Bushfires have ravaged many thousands of acres of pastoral and timber lands in various parts of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An aerial view of two large oil refineries at Palembang. Sumatra, before the Japanese invasion in February, 1942. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To minimise the danger of bushfires, Kearsley Shire Council will ask the Government to have five-breaks cut on all Crown lands…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, Oct. 18. A.A.P.—Three members of the National Fire Service have received awards for helping to extinguish a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adamstown and Hamilton Fire Brigades were called to a fire at the home of Mrs. Lilian Anne Bates, Lockyer Street, Adamstown. late last…
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