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Fires & bushfires, 1915

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Wagga Fire Brigade. Commissioners Visit. Motor Turbine and Resident

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1915 · page 4

Mr. Warsey, Fire Insurance Companies representative and Mr. Shepperd, Municipal representative, of the Board of Five Commissioners and…

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Submarine War. Shell-fire Attack. Brutal Murder. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 June 1915 · page 2

The French mine layer Casablanca was mined at the entrance to a bay in the Aegean Sea. British sailors rescued the captain and 64 men. It is…

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Under Fire. Soldiers' Sensations

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1915 · page 7

There have been several letters in the press lately upon the question of behavior under fire (says a British soldier). The correspondents seemed to assume that behavior when…

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Airship Explodes. Nunnery Set on Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1915 · page 4

Another brilliant test, marred only by the loss of several innocent lives, was accomplished by British and French airman, [?]o in Belgium…

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Making Maps Under Fire. Adventures of the Ordnance Man at the Seat of War

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 16 June 1915 · page 5

Attached to the headquarters staff of our Expeditionary. Force are experts in every branch of warfare. Among these are the officers whose…

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Wagga Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1915 · page 2

The Board of Fire Commissioners informed the Wagga Council by letter that the recommendations resulting from the recent visit to Wagga…

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Liquid Fire Squirts. Petrograd

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1915 · page 3

The Germans on the Bzura are using liquid fire squirts in hand to hand encounters…

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Items of News. New Fire Alarm

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 2

For the convenience of residents at the southern end of the town an additional fire alarm has been erected at the Wagga Co-operative Mill. The…

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German Oil Warehouse. Damage by Fire. Amsterdam

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1915 · page 4

The German Vacuum Oil Company's warehouse at Hamburg was burned, resulting in great damage. Boiling oil streamed into the canal. Several…

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French Advance. an Irresistible Offensive. Great Infantry Engagements Teuton Versus Slay. Appalling Slaughter on the Eastern Front Submarines in the Dardanelles. Two Daring Exploits. Several Troopships Sunk. German People's Lesson of War. Bund Panic at Karlsruhe. Western Front. New British Offensive. Heavy Enemy Shell Fire. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1915 · page 4

Details of the new British offensive states that the Germans opened with heavy shell fire, which made it impossible for the British to hold on, but…

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Items of News. Alarm of Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 June 1915 · page 2

The Wagga Fire Brigade received a call to the Wagga Motor Garage, in Kincaid-street, at about 11 o'clock on Saturday night, but on arrival it was…

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Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 June 1915 · page 2

On Monday afternoon a fire broke out at the residence of Mr. T. Row, resulting in considerable damage to the house. It started in the sitting…

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Fire at Yawangobilly

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 2

News reached Tumut by telephone on Tuesday morning last, that the Yarrangobilly Holet buildings had during the night, been completely…

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Soldiers' Letters. What It Is Like Under Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1915 · page 3

THE following extracts are taken from soldiers letters received from the front Private V. Hanson writing to a…

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Astonishing Artillery Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 8

The Italian artillery fire a Malborgbetto is astonishingly active…

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Shower of Shells Liner Outwitted Pirates Race Under Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 2

Unarmed as they were, and completely at the mercy of a German submarine, they crew of the Liverpool liner City of Cambridge refused to give the enemy best,…

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Work of the Nuns French Heroines in Lorraine Ten Days Under Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 7

Sinter Julio has not yet been celebrated in deathless verse as the heroine in Gerbeviller, but she has been decorated by the President of the French Republic in person, and that…

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Severe Artillery Fire. Counter-attacks Repulsed. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 July 1915 · page 3

An official report states: Our artillery lire is increasing in severity in Carnia, where we effectively bombarded the enemy's works. At…

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A Trench Concert. A Camp-fire Dance

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1915 · page 2

Something new for Gundagaid On the night of the 14th July (date of the great Fat and Lean football war) there is…

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A Poet's Fire Escape

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1915 · page 5

Visitors to Cambridge have their attention (ailed to many quaint and curious prints of interest, and among them the fire [?] of the poet Gray. When a fellow-commoner…

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