Fifteen Fires in Ballarat Since April Search For Incendiarist MELBOURNE
Despite an intense police search for an incendiarist who is at large, he is continuing his depredations. The Town and City Mission Church at…
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Driving Chinese Forces From Shanghai Fires Light Up Town Arsenal Bombed By Japanese Battle of He Wall Chinese Roll Stones on Enemy SHANGHAI
Again as night fell vast fires lit up Shanghai. The position of the city to-night is that the Japanese landing of their forces has not yet been completed. In the meantime marines and sections of the landing forces are steadily…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death and Havoc Follow Japanese Air Raid anese Hundreds of Refugees Killed While Awaiting Trains Bombs Start Huge Fires in Shanghai Area Shocking Scenes; Hospitals Crowded SHANGHAI
More than 600 were killed and 1200 wounded in the Japanese air raid yesterday morning over the Nantao district, south of the international settlement at Shanghai, Where refugees were congregated awaiting trains. Japanese bombing 'planes concentrated on the Sooth Station, Kiengan arsenal, and the local administrative buildings in the outer districts of Nantao, terrifying the inhabitants, thousands of whom stampeded towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Newtown House Completely Destroyed
Residents of Tumut were awakened from their slumbers about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning by the loud clanging of the fireball. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mysterious Shell Fire Paris
Two large calibre shells, presumably from a warship, passed over Frontignan, near Montpellier, last night, and exploded on waste land near a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Oaklands
On Wednesday night last a disastarous fire occurred about 930 o'clock, when the residence of Mr. H. H. Henshall, in Milthorpe-street, Oaklands,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newtown Fires Cause Suspicion SYDNEY
During the week six separate fires were discovered in the laundry of a house at Newtown in which eleven persons were sleeping, and two fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Junee Reefs
Mr. J. J. Mackay's fine home, "Killarney," at Junee Beefs, was razed to the ground by fire over the week-end. The building and the furniture were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thought World Was Ending So Got Fire Brigade Out
Olaf Stapledon's prediction based scientific possibility, is that the earth will meet with a collision in space, and disappear in a cloud of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Cheerful" Blaze Sydney
A fire which almost completely gutted the Blaxwell-street School, Granville, to-day, was loudly cheered by an assembly of several hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Station Officer's Death Gas Tube Leading to Mouth Sydney
Station Officer William Thomas' Carr was found to-day dead in his bath at the headquarters of the fire brigade. The gas had been turned on and a tube…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →School Building Burned Children Cheer Blaze
Hundreds of children assembled from all over Granville, cheered and threw their bats In the air when the Blarcell Street school caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Benalla Blaze Worst for Years Oil and Carrying Depots Destroyed Melbourne
In the most disastrous fire in the district for many years the premises of the Atlantic Union Oil Co. and the Neway Carrying Co. were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dead In Bath a Brave Fire Officer
Substation Officer Walter Thomas Carr, of fire brigade headquarters, was found dead in his bath with the gas-heater turned full on in his…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Theatre Fire at Blayney Incendiarism Suspected Blayney
The town of Blayney was shaken early this morning by a blast, which practically destroyed. Blayney Theatre, and when the residents rushed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion at Blayney Fire Destroys Theatre Bomb Believed Used SYDNEY
Many buildings in Blayney were shaken early in the morning by an explosion. The fire which followed destroyed the Theatre Blayney. Police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade
A meeting of the Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade will be held on Wednesday, 29th September. The Brookdale hospital effort…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Town Hall Destroyed Big Fire at Eastwood Council Records May Be Saved Sydney
The Town Hall and Council Chambers at Eastwood were practically destroyed by a fire shortly after 3 o'clock this morning. When firemen arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dirty Water in Town’s Supply Engineer Says Fire Brigade’s Practice Causes Trouble
A little over a week ago Gundagai residents were put to a great inconvenience by the dirty water that issued from the town’s…
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