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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 22
Aboard a British warship in the Pacific.—For a few terrify-ing minutes yesterday, this ship, which has survived two suicide plane crashes, seemed likely to blow up as a result of an accidental fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, May 27. A.A.P.—Fourteen districts of Tokio were severely damaged in Friday's great fire raid on the capital by American Superfortresses. "With my own eyes I saw the Imperial Palace engulfed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Alexander McKerrell, 30, of Auld-avenue, Eastwood, died to-day from burns received when trapped in the dehydrating cylinder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HOLOCAUST.—Terrific fires on Tarakan send up great billows of smoke, interfaced with streaks from phosphorus shells as U.S. Navy units supporting the Australian invasion of Tarakan strike shore installations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aboard the aircraft carrier Illustrious, with the British Pacific Fleet in Japanese water, word has just been given that the enemy is approaching. The order "action stations" has been given, and the aircraft crew is seen operating a battery of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, May 30. A.A.P.—The United States forest service chief Mr. Lyle Watts, disclosed that the Japanese balloons which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HISTORY.—Victory bells, a V and the V sign in Morse code, which brought hope to so many oppressed people in Europe, are incorporated in the cancellation marks of a letter posted in England just after VE Day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →GUAM, Friday.— Superfortresses early this morning set fire to the great Japanese industrial city of Osaka (population 3,000,0 00). There are no details yet of the raid, which the official U.S. air…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Friday.— The French Commander in Syria and Lebanon has ordered his troops to cease fire. The order, which was given at 6 o'clock last night, followed a sharp instruction from the British Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, June 1. A.A.P.—France, declines to comply with the British Government request that French troops in Syria should retire to their barracks, according to a communique issued this afternoon, reports the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, June 3. A.A.P.—The Germans in the last month of the war invented and put into production a rifle which can be fired around…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Most Newcastle and suburban theatres allow people to throng the aisles and sit on the stairs, thus endangering the safety of people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The kitchen and breakfast-room, with their contents, were damaged when a cottage in-Regent-street, New Lambton, caught fire late on,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, June 3. A.A.P.—It is now disclosed that another of Britain's anti-invasion defences was the spreading of oil patches across the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hedges of flame, lining both sides of this British airfield, are fed by lines of burners, installed for the artificial dispersing of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday.—German troops never fried to invade England late in 1940, but if they had British defences would have turned many miles of Dover Straits into flaming infernos. Sea-flame barrages were tested and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →These graphic pictures show Britain's anti-invasion fire screen across the Channel. Huge columns of smoke and flame stream from patches of oil on the water. This holocaust would have faced the Nazis had they attempted an invasion. The inset picture shows oil patches bubbling up from pipes laid under the water…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, June 5. A.A.P.—Fire bombs ripped through the built-up area of Kobe, from the waterfront straight through the middle of the city, when 450 and 500 Superfortresses dropped 3000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—The decision of the Newcastle Electorate Council of the A.L.P. to approach the Chief Secretary about overcrowding of theatres does not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The tailoring shop at Parramatta gaol was destroyed by fire, caused, it is thought, by spontaneous…
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