Fire Damp Alleged Seals Broken at Abermain No. 2
Presence of fire damp in an area where two 10-year-old seals were broken recently was alleged yesterday by the Secretary of Abermain…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 22
Tenth Army Fires Every Gun for Okinawa Kill
OKINAWA, Wednesday: The American Tenth Army turned on every gun it had today as it closed in for the kill on Okinawa. Infantry followed in behind the barrage which one correspondent says was the heaviest of the Pacific War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires in Osaka After Big Raid
NEW YORK, June 15. A.A.P.—While General Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Air Forces, was announcing to correspondents in the Marianas that the "complete and utter destruction of Japan"…
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NEW YORK, June 15. A.A.P.—Sixty Marine Corps planes dumped thousands of gallons of spreading, searing fire, and fired…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Raid on Target at Hongkong
NEW YORK, June 15. A.A.P.—Fifty Liberators dropped 25,000 gallons of jellied gasoline incendiary bombs on Hongkong causeway on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Jap Cities on Fire New Raids Today by Supers
GUAM, Monday: More than 450 Super-fortresses today rained 3000 tons of firebombs on piecework factory centres on Honshu and Kyushu (Japanese home islands)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Fire 20 Oilwells, Fear New Landing Increased Air And Sea Pressure On Borneo "Herald" Correspondents and A.A.P.
Apparently fearing another invasion of North Borneo near the Seria-Miri oilfields, the Japanese have set fire to at least 20 oilwells. Tokio Radio has repeated its report that an Allied…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letters to Editor Lack of Fire-bricks
Sir,—I have a practically new stove needing a new firebrick. I am unable to buy one in Cessnock. The storekeepers say they are unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Jap Cities Burn After Fire Bomb Attack "Shatter Enemy If No Surrender"
NEW YORK, June 20. A.A.P.—More than 450 Super-fortresses dropped 3000 tons of fire bombs on the three Japanese industrial cities of Fukuoka (Kyushu Island), Toyohashi and Shizuoka (Honshu Island) early this…
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MANILA, June 21.—Pouring fire and incendiary bombs, fighter aircraft from Philippines bases completely destroyed Kari, a township…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fighting Fire on Aircraft Carrier
Clad in asbestos suits, firefighters of this aircraft-carrier of the British Pacific Fleet go into action with hoses and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Chat Wins at Randwick
SYDNEY.— Fire Chat galloped right away from his opponents over the last furlong of the first Three-Year-Old Handicap at…
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Slight damage was done by fire at the home of Mr. W. J. Fleming, in Blue Gum-road, Heaton (Wallsend), yesterday. The fire which was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Troops Fight Oil Fires in Borneo Patrols Find No Japs
MANILA, Monday.— Australians who captured the rich Seria oilfields in Borneo are now quelling fires in 11 oil wells which the Japs started before they fled…
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NEW YORK, June 24. A.A.P.—American troops on Luzon, hunting for the Japanese commander who ordered the slaughter of his own sick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Press Building Damaged by Fire
SYDNEY, Monday.—Several thousand pounds worth of damage was done to a Brisbane-street building when a fire broke out late this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Allied Landing at Balikpapan Report by Tokio Australians Fight Fires In Seria Oilwells "Herald" Correspondents and A.A.P.
Tokio Radio says that Allied troops have landed at Balikpapan, chief oil and shipping port of south-east Bernco. The report is unconfirmed by General MacArthur's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Methodists Were "Fire and Blood Ranters"
ANECDOTES about the "fire and blood ranters" of the early Methodist Church in Newcastle formed an amusing basis for the talk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gave a False Fire Alarm Because She Was Lonely
NEW YORK,Wednesday; An attractive 32-Year-old brunette to-day admitted pressing a flase fire alarm at 3.55 a.m. because she was lonely. Mrs. Kay Moloney, of Manhattan, smiled happily as she was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Royal Janette and Ascertain in Dashing Seven at Randwick Fire Chat. Brazidon, Gold Ross Pleased
SYDNEY: Royal Janette and Ascertain, o pponents in the Peter Moore Handicap at Moorefield on Saturday, were associated in a dashing seven furlongs gallop in 1.31[?] at Randwick today. Other Moorefield candidates to gallop well were Fire Chat (three in 36[?]) Brazidon (three in 37), and Gold Ross (four in 50[?])…
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