Air raid on Paris at Lunch Time yesterday. 1000 Tons of Bombs on the City and Suburbs Casualties, Including 45 KILLED 97 Buildings Damaged, and 61 FIRES 16 of the Raiders Brought Down
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 1
PARIS, Monday: Between 240 and 300 German planes, flying at a terrific height to avoid anti-aircraft batteries, participated in an air raid on Paris at lunch time today. It is estimated that over a thousand tons of bombs were dropped in the Paris region, causing about 200 casualties, including 45 killed. It is officially…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory Girls Flee Panic Follows Sydney Fire Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 2
Thirty girls fled from a factory at Camperdown to-day, fearing that petrol and rubber near which they were working would burst into flames. Choking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bones in Fire Victorian Police Investigate Men Hear Woman's Screams Melbourne
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 4
Detectives have been sent to Glenisle a farming settlement 45 miles north of Hamilton, to investigate a report that charred bones had been found in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Large-Scale Air Raid on Paris OVER 1000 Bombs on City and Suburbs 45 Killed; 149 injured Many Schools Struck, Fires Started France Will Retaliate, Says Radio Paris
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 1
Paris experienced its first large-scale air raid of the war at lunch-time to-day, when 1050 bombs fell in an area nine miles wide, killing 45 persons and injuring 149. in the city eight were killed and 54 wounded, and in the suburbs 37 killed and 95…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allied Bombers Raid Germany Many Fires Started Extensive Damage to Big Engine Factory Trails of Devastation Paris Death Roll Reaches 254; Injured Total 652 PARIS
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 1
"French bombers last night attacked air fields and industrial establishments near Munich and Frankfurt, in Germany, causing numerous fires and explosions. We hit one of Germany's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Police Investigation Urged at Shires' Conference Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 3
That every: outbreak of bush fires be fully investigated by the police," was the wording of a motion carried at the conference of the Shires'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrific Bombing by R.A.F. Fires and Explosions in Germany Railway Yards Attacked London
Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 1
While German planes were attacking the French port of Le Havre last night, heavy R.A.F. bombers penetrated deep into Germany and attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Fire Thousands of Pounds Damage .Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1940 · page 2
Fire almost destroyed Grigg's timber yards at Roselle early this morning and caused damage to the extent of thousands of pounds. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Brisbane Blaze Sabotage?
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 June 1940 · page 1
BRISBANE, Monday: The building and contents of the Queensland Can Co.'s cork board department at Montague road, South Brisbane, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Parkes Paper Office
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 June 1940 · page 1
PARKES, Monday: The "Parkes Champion-Post," one of the oldest newspapers in the central-west, was partly destroyed by fire late last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Brisbane Blaze R.A.A.F. Order Involved Sabotage Possibility Brisbane
Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1940 · page 5
The building and contents of the Queensland Can Co.'s cork board department at Montague-road, South Brisbane, were destroyed by fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newspaper Fire Printing Machines Destroyed Parkes
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 3
A fire which broke oat in the rear of the premises occupied by the "Champion Post," one of the oldest newspapers in the Central West, last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shit Set on Fire Italian Crew Interned in Canada Montreal
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 2
The Italian freighter Votonoll was set on fire in the St. Lawrence River. A Canadian .coastguard patrol ran the vessel aground when he saw the Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interception of the Romolo Vessel Set on Fire
Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Thursday: Mr, Cameron announced that the Italian cargo and passenger liner Romolo had been intercepted by an armed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Romolo Intercepted by Australian Cruiser in Mid-pacific Vessel Set on Fire Melbourne
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 4
The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Cameron) to-day announced that the Italian cargo and passenger liner. Romolo had been intercepted by an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tumut District Bush Fires Minister's Complacency No Finances to Fight Forestry Fires
Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 5
The last of a serious series of bush fires, which had their origin on the Tumut State Forest, south of the town, and which got out of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Damage Less Than Previous Season Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 6
A survey by police of bush fire outbreaks in New south Wales last season has been completed and shows that the damage caused was less than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£100,000 Risk at Murrami : New War Turn Causes Apprehension Rice Board, Fire Brigade, Want All-weather Road to Rice Shed
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 1
NEW risks of possible fire damage to the huge quantity of rice stacked in the immense Murrami storage shed, were mentioned at the Council meeting this week, when the N.S.W. Fire Brigade and the Rice Marketing Board brought under the notice of the Shire the fact that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Raids on Italy Objectives Bombed at Turin and Genoa Italian Warship Set on Fire; Submarines Hit Egypt Ready to Declarer War CAIRO
Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 1
The first bombing raids on Italy were conducted this morning by heavy bombers operating from England. They attacked military objectives at Turin, while others bombed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raid on Norway Dromes and Ships Bombed Many Fires Started London
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 June 1940 · page 1
Plying blind through rain and heavy mist, aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked the Vaernes aerodrome in Norway and damaged supply ships…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →