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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 22
LONDON, April 24.—Appalling desolation is reported from Berlin, where fires are raging everywhere. There is a continuous roar of guns and a stream of planes dropping bomb loads on the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LAST night's meeting of the District Council of the Returned Soldiers' League observed silence to commemorate the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday: Within a day or two Mr. Churchill will announce the end of the war in Europe. The "Daily Mail" says that the end may well come today. It will be total surrender on all fronts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several thousand people paraded enthusiastically through the main street of Cessnock from 7 o'clock last night until well after midnight. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May 8. A.A.P.—Mr. Churchill, broadcasting at 3 p.m. to-day, made the historic declaration that the war in Europe was at an end. Hostilities would cud officially at one minute after mid night (8.1 a.m. Wednesday, Newcastle time), but to save lives the "cease fire" had begun to be sounded all along the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HALIFAX, May 9. A.A.P.—Damage estimated unofficially at one million dollars was caused during riots which followed on a victory…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, May 9. A.A.P.—German planes at midday to-day bombed the Czechoslovak capital, Prague, and a number of nearby towns, in defiance of the unconditional surrender of all German armed forces. These raids took place more than 12 hours after the official "cease fire"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday: Two thousand guns fired 60,000 rounds in Moscow last night in the greatest victory salute of the war when Stalin announced that Germany was "completely…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A railway truck which caught fire in the Newcastle goodsyards last night was badly, damaged, and some of the contents destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—On the blackened walls of the factory of E. Lucas and Co. white goods factory, remain at Ballarat after a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GUAM, May 15. A.A.P.—Yesterday's fire bomb attack on Nagoya is stated to have been heavier than most of the raids against Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GUAM, Wednesday: 500 Superfortresses last night rained 2500 tons of fire bombs on the Japanese industrial city of Nagoya which was still burning from Sunday's attack. In Chungking yesterday the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Escaping ammonia gas several times forced firemen out of a blazing building in Redfern to-night. Gas cylinders in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WASHINGTON, Thursday. — Japanese bombs struck the 25,000 ton U.S. aircraft-carrier Franklin 60 miles-off the Japanese coast on March 19, causing one of the most appalling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Evelyn Moffatt, 2, of Warner's Ray, was severely burned when she fell into an open fire last night. The child was sitting on the knee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KATOOMBA, Sunday.—Mr. Justice Herron helped in saving the country residence of Mr. James Kirby from complete destruction by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Construction of a tank-carrying bridge while bullets cut the jungle above their heads was one of the finest of many feats by Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MANILA, May 24. A.A.P.—The Americans in the Marakina Valley, on Luzon, are developing new tactics for the quick liquidation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SAN FRANCISCO, May 27. A.A.P.—Firefighters aboard a British Task Force ship, loaded with explosives, had a desperate task when fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This quiet-looking strip of water is the moat round the Emperor's Palace in Tokio. The water did not stop the…
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