Heavy Losses in Fires Katoomba
Homes in North Katoomba were menaced by bushfire today. Sheds and fences were…
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Fire Better Than Train
Travelling in the Melbourne Limited from Albury was worse than going through the bushfires in the Spirit of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires Delay Express. Country Ablaze in Victoria. Burning Sleepers
Passengers on the two divisions of the Melbourne Express, both of which arrived at Sydney nearly six hours late yesterday afternoon, spent a night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in Grocery Store. Dover Heights Outbreak
A fire in a grocery store in Military Road. Dover Heights, early on Saturday afternoon, was checked before it could extend to five adjacent shops and residences…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bushfires on Mountains. Volunteers' Task. Homes Menaced
BUSHFIRES AT KATOOMBA. Bushfires burned fiercely during the week-end in the valleys and on the spurs of the Blue Mountains, and…
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Though the Hills district is drier than the Sahara, no bush fires were reported last week. "I don't think we've got anything…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Germans Fire on Trawler
GERMAN BOMBERS mercilessly machine-gunned the trawler Dorald in the North Sea last month, wounding the captain and mate. Seaman pointing to a clock smashed by a bullet…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.--At least 15 people are dead and 40,000 have been forced to flee from their homes as a result of floods in eastern areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flour Fire May Take Days To Quell
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Firemen predict that it will take two or three days to put out a fire which began today in a stack of 350 tons of flour at a…
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Light rain yesterday caused 27 fires on electric light poles in the city and suburbs, and in some localities electric current was interfeied with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Horror of Fire, Floods New York, Tuesday. Our Own Cable Service
Explosion of tour huge oil tanks added a new horror to the floods which have devastated a hundred-mile stretch along the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wentworthville Fire Brigade
Wentworth[?] has only four volunteer firemen. and. on Ald Maunder's motion. Holrevd Council will ask that the number be increased also that fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Prize Letter Fire
BETTY MAY[?] Last week my brother came rushing in shouting "Fire" [?] In this dry weather that is as effective as a bomb dropped at our feel. We all rushed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in Macquarie Street
Liverpool Fire Brigade was quickly summoned to a large outbreak in the scrub behind the cemetery in Macquarie Street last Sunday, at 12.55 p.m. No…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electric Light Pole on Fire
The light rain on Tuesday caused a number of electric light poles at Rockdale and Mortdale to catch fire. The fires were caused by the light rain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Conference Reflects Varied Moods Country Women To Keep Home Fires Burning
"We in Australia are still privileged enough to be able to grumble," said the Deputy Premier (Colonel M. F. Bruxner), when addressing about six hundred members of the Country Women's Association at their…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Heard by the Way Fire in the Orchard
BUSH fires recently played havoc in an orchard at Curimbah, owned by Mr Stan Martin, of Emu Plains. It went right through the citrus crop,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. "Duce's" Fire Test For Blonde WASHINGTON
William Dudley Pelley, Duce of the "Silver Shirt" Fascist organisation, burned strands of a blonde girl's hair to prove that she was 100 per cent Aryan. Dorothy Waring, a former…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →10 Hurt in Fire on Liner Our Own Cable Service
ROME, Wed.--Ten persons were injured when a fire broke out on the United States liner Manhattan at an Italian port to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Fighters Beer From Sydney Hot Work at Mulgoa-wallacia
LOCAL residents and Penrith police had a hectic time last week, right up till Sunday, in combatting the bush fires at Mulgoa…
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