Inferno While Oil Burns at Palembang River of Fire
BATAVIA, Tuesday:--The fall of Palembang, the richest of the Indies oil centres, was like scenes…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
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"Japs. Caught In Hell Fire" Massacre By A.I.F. In Bridge Ambush
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A vivid account of how A.I.F. troops wiped out a Japanese cyclist column in Malaya with machine guns and Mills bombs and then spent three incident-laden…
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BATAVIA, Wednesday: Palembang's oil fires, the greatest in history, were so vast that they influenced the weather, causing…
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Terania Shire Council considers that Bush Fire Brigades are unnecessary in the shire area, owing to local conditions, and no action…
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TOWNSVILLE, Sunday:-- Passengers in the Qantas plane which reached Townsville from Darwin to-night said the damage was…
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CANBERRA.--"Every member of the public should be in a position to combat incendiary bombs," said the Minister for Home Security, Mr…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Thousands of pounds worth of damage was done by a fire which destroyed the wicker furniture factory of Paine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →R.A.A.F. Bombs Timor and Rabaul Large Fires Seen
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—In a communique last night, the Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) said that "R.A.A.F. operations last night extended from Timor to New Britain. A force of our bombers attacked Rabaul, concentrating on buildings and grounded…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Monday (AAP).—The Navy revealed that the United States tanker, William H. Berg, exchanged shots with an…
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LONDON, Thursday:--German-controlled radios are doing their utmost to extract full propaganda value from the R.A.F.'s mammoth…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—The Air Ministry reveals that at the conclusion of the attack on the…
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LONDON, Wednesday: The Air Ministry states: At the conclusion of the attack on the Renault factories near Paris, there were many…
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Fire which spread with amazing rapidity, totally destroyed the Coolangatta Ice Works at Kirra yesprietor, Mr. John Grevis, had a…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: In bushfires in Victoria early this week one man was burned to death and at least 30 houses were destroyed…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — James Butler Hodgson, 67. farmer of Headland, South Gippsland, was burned to death…
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BOSTON, Sunday: Flames swept a six-storey warehouse of the National Woolmarketing Corporation Building to-day, containing £3,000,000 worth of…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners advised Kyogle Shire Council yesterday that it had not been found practicable to accede to the council's…
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PHILADELPHIA, Monday: Federal officials began a rigorous investigation to-day of a series of fires on the Delaware River waterfront…
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CANBEERA, Tuesday.—On a field radio set built up from remains of a number of other sets, A.I.F…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Two forward holds of an overseas freighter had to be flooded to-night, after fires had…
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