Fiendish Enemy. Atrocities on Prisoners. Burned with Liquid Fire. London
Details have been officially published of gross outrages, perhaps unparalleled for fiendish cruelty, on British prisoners and wounded men…
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With the Australians. Best After Strenuous Days. an Heroic Failure. Victorians in Hail of Fire. London
Mr. Keith Murdoch, correspondent with the Australian forces, writing on Friday, says:— Travelling over the wireless, old…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pressure Continues Anglo-french Advance on Somme. Germans' Precarious Hold on Roye. Frightful Stories of Cruelty. Wounded Prisoners Sprayed with Liquid Fire. How Victorians Fought a Losing Fight. London
Friday's communique shows that the Anglo-French continue their victorious pressure on the Somme battlefront, having transferred their main attack from the Lassigny area northwards to the Roye region, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Animals Under Fire
Bombardments affect different animals in different way[?] Dogs, as a rule, show great distress when shells burst near them and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Leeton Fire Brigade
An inquisitive busybody on Saturday night last rang the fire bell. and though he had the satisfaction of learning that the brigade was a real…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridges Kept Under Fire. London
In a message from the American headquarters in France, Reuter's correspondent says:— The enemy is feeling the effects of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Hotel Fire. Narrow Escape of Inmates. Adelaide
The Ozane Hotel at Kangaroo Island was totally destroyed by fire. It cost 16,000. Some of the occupants had a perilous escape. A baby thrown from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Insurance Sates
The question as to the high rates of fire insurances in Wagga as compared with other towns, and the fact that no satisfactory explanation could be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade Benefit To-night
A benefit picture entertainment will be hold in the Enterprise Hall to-night for the purpose of securing a hose reel for Leeton. This is a fine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miscellaneous. the Prevention of Fire. In Grain Crops
The following recommendations for wheat growers have been issued by the college of Agriculture of the University of California…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Bush Fire
A bush fire broke out in Ilfracombe (Q.). It swept through many holdings, causing considerable damage. It is feared that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Botany
A fire partly destroyed Jordan's wool scouting work's at Botany, late last night. The damage is estimated at £2,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germany's Ebb Tide British Capture of Cambrai Certain. Further Advance Beyond Broken Line. Withdrawal From Vesle Commences. Allies Pursue on 20-Mile Front. Fires Mark Enemy Retreat. Paris
It is semi-officially reported that the hour seems close at hand when the superb efforts of the Allies will begin to bear fruit. One of our great chiefs said yesterday: "We are in the last Jap and close to the winning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lens Pull of Machine-guns. Laon Under French Fire. Paris
There are still 300 nests of machine-guns hidden in Lens. The floods west of Cambrai are four feet deep and are hampering our tanks. Laon is now under the fire of French guns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fires. £60,000,000 Damage Caused
The extraordinary conflagration at Salonika, which has rendered nearly 100,000 persons homeless, and has done damage estimated at £40,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire and Blood. Russia's Dark Days. Petrograd in Flames. Massacres in the Streets. London
The American Legation at Christiania states that Petrograd is in flames, and that massacres are proceeding. Reuter's Washington correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. Metz Under Fire
Marshal Haig's latest report: North westward of St. Quentin we further progressed southward had northward of Holon Wood. We…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Metz Under Fire Americans at Work with Long-range Guns. Base Improved for Further Attacks. British Capture Vantage Ground. Red Ruin in Russia. Germany's Peace Offer to Belgium. London
Reuter learns that the news to-day from the American front is highly satisfactory. Since yesterday the Americans have advanced two or three miles on a front of 33 miles. Their patrols have penetrated a further two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at North Wagga
At about 12.30 this morning the Wagga Fire Brigade received a call to go out to a fire at North Wagga. The blaze was plainly distinguishable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at North Wagga
The scene of the fire which occurred in North Wagga soon after midnight on Tuesday and brief reference to which was made in yesterday's issue, proved…
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