Sabotage in Big Berlin Fire Our Own Cable Service
LONDON, Thurs.--The Bergman electrical factory in Berlin is blazing fiercely, according to a Berlin message. An official statement says that the…
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Munitions Fire in Berlin. "Unexplained Cause." LONDON, March 28. (A.A.P.)
Fire broke out in a munitions factory in northern Berlin at 10 o'clock last night, and was still burning at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Fire on Strikers. Calcutta Scavengers. CALCUTTA, March 28. (A.A.P.)
Police opened fire, for the first time in 10 years, when a gang of municipal scavengers, who are on strike, attacked a police picket…
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Working in fierce heat, many hundreds of volunteers yesterday fought bushfires which threatened homes in Sydney suburbs, in the Mulgoa and…
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In a four-mile car dash over a rough track through bushfires yesterday the Berrima schoolmaster, Mr. J. Caldwell, won to safety as the steering gear jammed and front springs snapped…
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A BUSHFIRE covering thousands of acres roared towards Winbourne, a palatial guest-house at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Australian Fires. Adelaide
Extensive bushfires are burning in South Australia. Volunteers are fighting hard to save the tiny township of Nangkita, 40 miles south of…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.--Blazing on a wide front over a big area a bushfire has swept through the scrub country from the northern boundary of Kuitpa…
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Holidaymakers at Mulgoa last night fought fierce bushfires which were advancing towards the guest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfires Menace Hospital. Delegate
Patients were hurriedly moved from the Delegate Hospital when bushfires surrounded it, out the building was saved. Stock, outbuildings, and haystacks, and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →300 Men Guard Bushfire Danger Area
Three hundred volunteer fire-fighters kept an all-night watch over bushfires outside Berrima last night. They feared that if the wind should rise the township of Bowral and the Southern Portland Cement Works at South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Savings Went Up in Blaze Couple Found Shop on Fire
Fire withered the hopes and destroyed the savings of a young couple who returned to their shop at Rose Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fires Hold Up Express Melbourne
A raging grass fire, which had swept over three miles of the Melbourne- Sydney railway line, near Euroa, 93 miles from Melbourne, delayed the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mountain Fires Are Lure For Tourists
Though bushfires no longer menace property in Mountains townships; fires raging in Jamieson and Megalong Valleys at night provide an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brigade Chases Fire Through Streets
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- City firemen had to chase a fire through the streets of East Melbourne tonight to put it out. With the Collingwood brigade, the City firemen were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anne Gordon Joins a Fire Brigade with Dire Results London, March 14
ANNE GORDON, daughter of Sir Alexander and Lady Gordon, of Sydney, writes of V.A.D. and A.R.P. work in London. She says that after one afternoon with the auxiliary fire service she has decided…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Playing with Fire: -- MOLOTOV Sharp Warning To Weygand's Army Admits Large Losses in Finland War Moscow
"In Syria and the Near East generally, there is a suspicious hubbub regarding the formation of General Weygand's Anglo-French Colonial Army" (which includes the A.I.F.), Foreign…
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MELBOURNE, 1 a.m., Sunday. -- Early today the Spirit of Progress, after being held up by bushfires, left Seymour for Euroa, 4½ hours late. Between Euroa and Violet…
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FIERCE bushfires near the Victorian border on Saturday delayed The Spirit Of Progress train almost six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Fires. Melbourne
Disastrous bushfires in many parts of Victoria yesterday destroyed homes, stock, baystacks, fencing, bridges, and thousands of acres of timber and grass…
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