Every Saturday Boating Modern Science Lessens Fire Risk Afloat
WITH modern fire-fighting equipment of an approved type on board, every yachtsman may feel secure against the…
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Japanese Bombarding Shanghai. Fires Blazing in Chapei. Warship Shells Wharf. Japanese Bringing Up Tanks and Guns. LONDON, Aug. 13
The Japanese have begun to bombard parts of the Chinese city at Shanghai. Several big fires have started and great clouds of smoke, apparently caused by explosions in Chapei, the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Shanghai Fighting City In Flames From Japanese Artillery Fire Refugees Crowd to European Quarter Shanghai
SERIOUS fighting has broken out between Japanese and Chinese in Shanghai. Japanese artillery is pounding the Chinese city and has set fire to many buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spanish Ship on Fire. Italians Accused. Bombardment by Destroyers. 12 Men Die in Flames. LONDON, Aug. 13
Thirty survivors of the Spanish loyalist oil tanker Campeador (7932 tons) accuse Italian destroyers of having shelled and set fire to the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Peaks to Blaze Welsh Plan For Fight Victory LONDON
INTENSE interest is being taken in Wales in the heavyweight fight between Tommy Farr (Wales) and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fears Fire Bombs More Than Gas
Incendiary bombs, rather than gas bombs, are likely to be the greatest danger from the air during the next war…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Page's Warning on Labor Policy Fires First Shot in Federal Campaign
FIRING the first shot in the Country Party Federal election campaign, when addressing the Farmers and Settlers' Conference to-day, Dr. Earle Page said that Labor's combined trade and defence policy would leave…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burned to Death Petrol on Fire by Mistake
IN a desperate attempt to save the life of their father, whose petrol soaked clothes were ablaze, his two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lugger Stopped With Machine-Gun Larrakia Fires Five Bursts Across Bows Official Report of Pearler's Arrest Darwin
BEFORE arresting the Japanese pearler, that Nippon [?] the Commonwealth patrol [?] had to fire five machinegun [?] across her bows. In a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scenes in Great Modern City Under Fire Photonews
SOOCHOW CREEK, in a part of Shanghai which has been hard-hit in the recent Japanese offensive. This picture gives an impression of the fine modern buildings which are suffering in the bombardment. At right is the General Post Office, while the Railway Building is in the left background…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Fire on Crowd. Two People Killed. Yugoslavian Church Troubles. Belgrade, Aug. 16
When a member of the Government party fired a shot at a Church banner among the crowd gathered at Mladenovatz to hear the reading of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Submarine Sinks Ship Off Gallipoli. Spanish Crew Rescued. Shells Fire Tanker. LONDON, Aug, 16
A message from Chanak (Asia Minor) says that the Spanish steamer Ciudad de Cadiz (4602 tons) was sunk off Gallipoli by shellfire and torpedoes…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →News Of The World From Daily Telegraph Exclusive Correspondents War Horrors At Sea Shells, Torpedoes Sink 2 SHIPS "Left To Swim In Ocean Of Fire"--Survivors LONDON
AN oil tanker and a steamer have been added to the war toll of shipping in the Mediterranean. One was sunk by heavy shell fire, the other by a torpedo. Allegations of brutality and callousness are made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Soap Works
Reference to a mysterious telephone call to Fire Headquarters in the name of a Mr. Mcinnes was made at the Coroner's Court to-day, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mysterious Call To Fire Brigade £68,276 Damage in Puzzling Blaze
THE cause of a lire which broke out in the factory of Australian Soaps Limited, at Alexandria, on July 31. remains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blaze of Spring Flowers at Howard-auto Ball Carnival Scene at Rivoli
A blaze of spring flowers on the tables and round the walls, together with thousands of colored balloons and hosts of noisy novelties, succeeded in producing a carnival effect at the Rivoli on Friday, when the third annual charity ball arranged by Howard…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Scouts' Camp Fire. Presentation of Badges
The 1st Guildford Boy Scouts held a camp fire to the Scouts' Den. The Espianade, Guildford, on Saturday evening. August 14. About 50 Cubs, Scouts, Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigade Wins Rugby Union Match
BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The New South Wales Fire Brigade Rugby Union team defeated a representative Brisbane team 34-21 at Gregory Terrace Oval to…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Strange Telephone Message On Night of Fire. Coroner Exonerates Company
Evidence of a mysterious telephone call was given by the Chief Fire Officer (Mr. Richardson) at an inquiry yesterday into a fire on July 31, which did more than £60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soviet Prison Fire. 120 Clergy Reported Dead. Geneva, July 28
Some 120 clergy belonging to various denominations lost their lives in a fire which destroyed one of the barracks of the Soviet concentration camp of Solowki Islands…
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