Thorby Under Fire Air Mail Facts Demanded Curtin-Gullett Attack Long Delays CANBERRA
The Sun · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 3
Sharp criticism of the Government's refusal to take Parliament into its confidence on the Empire air mail scheme, and of long delays in starting the service, was heard to-day from Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News Of The World From Daily Telegraph Correspondents Bomb For Bomb In Spain Republican Threat of Reprisal French To Fire On Border Raiders LONDON
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 3
REPUBLICAN Spain is ready to take most severe reprisals against the continued bombing of civilian areas by General Franco's planes, states the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Employees Fight Fire
The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 2
PRESENCE of mind of employees at the wool-scouring plant of F. W. Hughes Pty. Ltd., Lloyd St., Botany, saved thousands of pounds' worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bakery Damaged by Fire
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 19
Late last night fire broke out in the bakery of John Pollock, Pacific Highway, Turramurra. The building, of two stories, was severely damaged by fire, heat, and water, but…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Parramatta Fire Outbreak Soon Subdued
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 5
Smart work by Parramatta and Granville Fire Brigades, under District Officer Goodwin, prevented what might have been a serious outbreak of fire at Swans French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early Morning Fire Scare. King's Cross Flats
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 18
Fire broke out early this morning in Tusculum Towers, at King's Cross, an eight-storey building at the corner of Tusculum and Hughes Streets, containing 40 flats, nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Police Fire on Jamaica Mobs London
The Sun · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 5
An account of the recent disturbances in Jamaica and the casualties which occurred during riots is given by the officer administering the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women in Panic Fire at Flats Flight To Street
The Sun · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 1
Panic-stricken women in brightly-hued pyjamas pleaded with firemen to save them early to-day when a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French To Fire At Bombers PARIS, Tuesday. Our Own Cable Service
The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 1
THE French Government takes a very serious view of repeated, deliberate bombings of French territory by Spanish rebel planes and has ordered that frontier batteries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys Smoke Out 65 Miners Started Fire 200 Feet Down Shaft to Get Pigeons Kalgoorlie
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 1
BOYS, who started a fire in a disused mine shaft to smoke out pigeons, smoked out 65 men from their work today. The boys climbed down old ladders in the Hinchcliffe shaft, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Kingswood
Nepean Times · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 1
A four-roomed cottagte occupied by Mrs West, on Werrington Road, Kingswood, was completely gutted by a fire, which broke out about 6 p.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Riotous Crowds in Jamaica. Official Report. Police Forced to Fire. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, June 8
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 11
In a report on the recent disturbances in Jamaica, Mr. C. C. Woolley, who is administering the colony, says that on several occasions it was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Speed Limit Under Fire Deputation's Plain Talk to Bruxner 'Trapping Harmless Victims; Real Pests Escape' Area Survey Promise
The Sun · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 3
In a plain-spoken protest against the operation of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit a deputation from the Royal Automobile Club of Australia to-day told the Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, that respectable motorists…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion Feared in Fire
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 5
Fearful of a serious explosion firemen prevented flames reaching the laboratory of a manufacturing chemists factory yesterday, by the use of foam…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blaze in Stock Exchange. £10,000 Damage at Adelaide. ADELAIDE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 9
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused to the interior of the Adelaide Stock Exchange by a fire which broke out at 4 p.m. to-day. Six firemen were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Spectacular Fire In Chemist's Shop
The Labor Daily · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 3
ABOUT £200 worth of damage was caused in a spectacular fire at a manufacturing chemist's premises in King Street, Newtown, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Shops Swept by Fire. Coolangatta Blaze. Tweed Heads
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 18
Fire swept through three shops in Griffith Street, Coolangatta, this afternoon, doing damage estimated at £5,780. Two women narrowly escaped being seriously…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 8
FIRE DESTROYS INDEPENDENT THEATRE.--After- theatre crowds saw the Independent Theatre, at rear of Theatre. Royal, destroyed by fire last night. Damage estimated at £3000. Building caretaker had narrow escape when brinks fell…
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The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 1
BELIEVING that the premises had caught fire, 200 persons rushed in panic from a King Street coffee shop late last night…
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The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 3
MURWILLUMBAH, Friday. -- Damage amounting to £5780 was earned by a fire in Griffith Street, Coolangatta…
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