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992 stories in Riverina's papers · page 50 of 50
The advent of the holiday season necessitates a serious warning concerning the use of fire in open and bush country. Every summer the danger of disastrous bush fires recurs, and although the vegetation has not been so prolific during the past season as in normal years, it is as dry as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wagga Fire Brigade, received another call yesterday morning to extinguish a fire in the rubbish along the river bank at the back of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While 200 passengers slept peacefully, the crew of a British liner which has reached an Australian port grimly fought an outbreak of fire in one of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firemen to-day rescued, three women and a man who were trapped in the parapet of a blazing residential in the city. They were Mrs. May Phoenix,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Driven by a hot, dry wind which repeatedly changed its course a fire breaking out on the Albury common yesterday afternoon, swept down over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire women destroyed more than 100,000 acres of uninhabited grassland in the Ivanhoe district was brought under control shortly before noon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain, which fell overnight, has aided the men who have been fighting the bush fires raging in the Ivanhog district. Fires are now under control…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Southampton was visited by a German bomber to-day, according to an Air Ministry communique, which states: "There was very little enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Space is given in these columns from time to time, to measures being taken in this year's bushfire prevention campalen—a worthy cause in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Germans immediately after dusk yesterday evening launched a terrific onslaught against London. Thousands of incendiaries rained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Australian troops in the Western desert nave had their baptism of fire in recent days, from repeated bombings, a most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Australians in the Western Desert have undergone their baptism of fire. In recent days the repeated bombings have given the men a trying experience—one of the most unpleasant ordeals of modern warfare. The troops are well…
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