Mother Saves Her Babies From Fire
LONDON, Monday.--Fighting her way through smoke and flames, Mrs. Dickerson, of Grove Road, Windsor, saved her two babies when fire broke out in…
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Rydal Had No Water for Fire
LITHGOW, Monday.--Because of the water shortage, Rydal residents could not fight a fire which gutted a 100-year-old empty building last night…
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Thirty-seven survivors from the scuttled German steamer Hanover (5600) tons) are reported to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazi Artillery Shakes Allied Lines British Troops Under Heavy Fire Watch in Air London, Monday. Our Own Cable Service
AN earth-shaking artillery bombardment by the Germans of the Allied lines has again awakened interest in the Western Front. The New York Times,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Homesteads Threatened. Bushfire sweeps 10,000 Acres. GRENFELL
A burshfire which started in the hill on Saturday has now reached serious proportions. Fanned by a strong wind it spread rapidly and several homesleads were threatened. About…
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THREE Newtown Rugby League officials, Buckley, Jolly, and Frank Burge, travelled 700 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lottery Win Timely For Burnt-Out Farmer WAGGA
Mr. W. J. Cutler, Tarcutta farmer, who shared second prize in today's State Lottery with a share-farmer, E. Lovekin, had a timely win. In a bushfire recently he lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fought Fires. Horses Impounded
Stating that his four horses were Impounded while he was helping to fight a fire on Wall Park Estate, Mr. J. Pearson, of Seven Hills, told…
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Five tons of wattle-bark were damaged by fire at March Brothers' tannery at Clyde on Friday. Hear from the boiler-house is believed to have caused…
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BULLI, Tuesday.--South Bulli pit-top was seriously threatened by a fire which broke out in the huge wooden structure of the [?]ter cooler this…
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A public meeting for the purpose, of forming a fire brigade at North Rocks is to be held at the local public school next Monday at 8 p.m. The meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fires in Victoria. Serious Outbreaks Feared. Melbourne
Many homes and mills in Victoria were threatened by fierce fires which burnt through heavily timbered country to-day near Noojee, Woodend,…
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Two boys were seriously burned on the face and body when they set blasting powder alight in a Waverley street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Faced Perils in Mountains Dodged Fires To Aid Sick Man KATOOMBA
Alter encountering five bushfires, and frequently having to dodge falling trees, rescuers early to-day reached a man, who, ill with malaria, had been marooned since Sunday on top of Mt. Solitary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Are Missing Fire Sweeps On Town MELBOURNE
Two persons are missing since an extensive grass fire swept towards Mortlake, a prosperous Western town,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heat Wave. Half Continent Suffers Renewed Danger of Bushfires
A heat wave now covers the southern half of Australia, and yesterday the shade temperature over great areas of Victoria, South Australia, and New…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mountain Rescue. Sick Hiker Found. Two Others Sought. Searchers Battle Through Bushfires. KATOOMBA
Rescue parties which had been fighting their way through bushfires since yesterday afternoon to go to the assistance of three men stranded on the side…
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A warning that fresh northerly winds and sultry temperature will probably cause bushfires was issued to-day by the Acting-State…
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After the second successive all-night fight, the worst bushfires in the Orange district for years have been controlled. Both fires were in the only…
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"SKYLARK" (Dungarhy).—This fire occurred at the end of 1938, when we had all those disastrous fires. Soon after lunch on that memorable Friday, when the heat wave was…
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