Rodney Fires 16 Inch Shells at Alderney Battery
LONDON, Tuesday: HMS Rodney carried out a heavy bombardment of a heavy battery in the Island of Alderney…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
328 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 17
Fire in North Lismore Shop
Awakened by the smell of smoke a few minutes before 5 a.m. yesterday, Mrs. G. Reber, of 59 Bridge Street North Lismore, found the…
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Caused by a short circuit in the ignition system, a fire broke out in a car owned and driven by Mr. W. Crawford, of Rous Mill,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fires in Bremen Chinese Ready to Attack Lungling
LONDON, Sunday: Photographs taken during Friday night's raid on Bremen show fires started by more than 150,000 incendiaries CHUNGKING, Sunday: A Chinese communique states that the Chinese have captured Laotungro, a strongly-fortified hill position…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).— Wearing a colonel's uniform. Mr. Churchill fired a big 5th Army gun which was attempting to…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Wearing a ft colonel's uniform, Mr Churchill on his visit to Italy fired a big 5th Army gun which was attempting to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lismore Fire Brigade Anzac House Appeal
Excellent support is being accorded the Lismore Fire Brigade Anzac House Appeal. The Secretary (Mr. C. A. Welch) and strong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insurance Payments After Bushfires
SYDNEY, Wednesday: During the past 12 months the insurance com panies had paid well over £1million in respect of bushfire losses in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Furniture Store Gutted by Fire
SYDNEY, Friday.—Eleven fire brigades attended a fire which gutted two floors of furniture at Fraser's Store, MacArthur Street…
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LONDON, Thursday: Renter's Moscow representative states: The Red Star correspondent states that the Germans set fire to the Ploesti oil installations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →River Boat Damaged by Fire
Prompt action by the Lismore Fire Brigade early on Sunday morning prevented the river vessel "Brittania" from being completely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Petrol Tank Blaze Lasts 21 Hours
LONDON, Monday (AAP).— When an aviation petrol store tank, buried in a hillside, was bombed during an enemy air raid,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfire After Car Hits Electricity Pole Seven Passengers Injured
A motor accident which occurred at the Tallebudgera Creek bridge, near Burleigh Heads, shortly after midnight on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warsaw on Fire As Russians Prepare Assault
LONDON, Friday: Dispatches from Moscow state that Warsaw is going up in flames, with smoke rising high over the ruins of what were once the capital's proudest buildings, as…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Servicemen removed thousands of live bombs from a blazing building tonight…
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An American soldier turns the hose on a burning P-47 after a crash landing on a U.S. airstrip in France…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Thousands of articles of clothing were destroyed to-day when the dry cleaning factory of William…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: When fire broke out in the cleaning and dyeing works at William Lawrence Pty Ltd, South Yarra,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—One of the most spectacular fires seen in Sydney for some time menaced private homes, dislocated traffic,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →420,000 Fire Bombs on Nazi City
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—In a concentrated raid of 20 minutes R.A.F. bombers last night dropped 420,000 incendiary bombs on the…
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