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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1945

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Tito Says Greek Reactionaries Fire Across Frontier

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: Marshal Tito, speaking over Belgrade Radio, declared that Greek…

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Coolangatta Air Raid Siren As Fire Alarm

Tweed Daily · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 2

A letter was read at the monthly meeting of Coolangatta Town Council from Coolangatta Volunteer Fire Brigade advising…

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New Fire Bomb Destruction

Northern Star · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP) —A new technique in fire ship bombing which has been developed by 13th Air Force Lightning…

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Lancasters Dump Fire Bombs

Tweed Daily · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: Lancasters flying 150 miles to sea from England are dumping many hundreds of tons of incendiary…

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Fire Paves Way For Dual Push

Northern Star · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 1

MANILA, Friday (AAP)—Using flamethrowers, Australian and Dutch troops are converging in a movement which is…

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False Alarm For Fire Brigade

Northern Star · Monday 16 July 1945 · page 4

Lismore Fire Brigade was called out yesterday afternoon to what was thought to be a fire in a building in Magellan Street. It was…

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Fire on British Munition Ship

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 July 1945 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday. — A British ship carrying munitions, which caught fire at Port Melbourne last night, was still afire…

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Fire on Ship at Melbourne

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: A fire which broke out in a British ship at Port Melbourne last night was still burning today,…

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Fire Raids by 500 Super-forts on Targets in Japan

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 18 July 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday: The Associated Press correspondent aft Guam says: About 500 Super-Fortresses showered 2500-tons of incendiaries on four Japanese cities, Oita, Hiratsuka, Kuwana and Numazu, before dawn today…

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Liner Destroyed by Fire

Tweed Daily · Thursday 19 July 1945 · page 5

OTTAWA, Wednesday: A report from Sarnia, Ontario, states that the Great Lakes luxury liner Hamonic, while locked at Point…

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Warning Against Unattended Fires

Northern Star · Friday 20 July 1945 · page 4

A warning that heavy penalties were provided for fires which were left unattended was given yesterday by the Lismore Fire Station…

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Explosions Rock Canadian City Fire in Navy Depot

Northern Star · Friday 20 July 1945 · page 1

HALIFAX, Thursday (AAP). —A series of terrific explosions at a naval armament depot last night rocked the city. Fires and blasts…

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Fire-proof Aviation

Northern Star · Saturday 21 July 1945 · page 5

NEW YORK, Friday (AAP). — A new non-inflammable high octane aviation fuel has been demonstrated by Standard Oil Company…

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Admissions by Fire Chief

Northern Star · Saturday 21 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Thomas Januarius Smith, Chairman of the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners, and former M.L.C.,…

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Boy Blamed for £1000 School Fires

Northern Star · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 5

PERTH, Sunday. — Two fires which caused £1000 damage to the State School at Bay View Terrace, Claremont, last week have…

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Man on Fire; Woman Charged

Northern Star · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday.—With clothes blazing and soaked with methylated spirits, a man, James Bonus, rushed about his home in…

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Fire Board Chief Cross Examined

Northern Star · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The President of the New South Wales Fire Board (Mr. Thomas Januaris Smith) admitted in the court of…

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Allegedly Set Fire to Her Husband

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: In Newtown Police Court today it was alleged that a young mother with a month-old baby had…

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Set Fire to Roof of Prison

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 3

ROME, Monday: Prisoners who Wave been revolting for 24 hours last night set fire to the roof of Regina Coeli prison…

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Young Mother Accused Of Setting Fire to Husband

Northern Star · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Newtown Police Court to-day it was alleged that a young mother of a month-old baby had thrown…

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