Raiders set Italian base on fire
LONDON, Saturday (A.A.P.). -- British planes are blasting Italian bases in North Africa. Flames were visible 30 miles away after raiders set fire to…
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British Raiders Fire Italian Ships; Bases CAIRO
Ships, warehouses and buildings were set on fire during a strong British attack on the Libyan ports of Benghasi and Tobruk and Assab (Eritrea). AN Air Force communique…
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-- British bombers are using a new type of flaming leaf six times bigger than those used in earlier raids on Germany…
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FIREMEN working from boats on the Thames, quelling fires started in London riverside warehouses by German incendiary bombs. This picture, and others below, received by weekend airmail. BOMB-DAMAGED and crushed by falling walls, a bus jammed amid wreckage in Central…
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TOKIO, September 22.--Because she was afraid she would fail in her school examinations Ginjin Sal, a Korean girl student of the Kyoritsu Women's…
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Picking up a tin filled with petrol, which he had mistaken for water, Jack Broadhurst, 19, dashed the contents into a fire which broke out this morning at Penberthy…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Libyan Bases Bombed. R.A.F. Campaign in North Africa. Fires at Benghazi. LONDON, Oct. 13. (A.A.P.)
An R.A.F. communique issued at Cairo states that British planes several times bombed important military objectives at Benghazi, in Libya, on Thursday night. Large fires started…
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Fire among Rumanian oil wells is reported, says the B.B.C. A message states that…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Surrounded by miles of blazing country, residents of Bruthen, Omeo, and Orbost, in East…
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The fire brigade was called to check 12 bush and grass fires in the suburbs yesterday. The flames were extinguished in every case before property was…
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The Liquid Fuel Control Board has promised more liberal petrol allowances to graziers to carry feed for stock in drought areas and for bush-fire…
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Fairfield Girl Guides, with their captain. Miss Stella Hope, organised a successful camp fire last Saturday night, a Mr. and Mis. Davis' residence, in…
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Harold James Hend, a timber cutter, was fined £2, with 8 costs, in Katoomba Police Court yesterday, for having failed to control a timber fire…
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The workers for Bossley Park Patriotic Committee are a very energetic and active body, which was again demonstrated at their second camp fire on…
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Very Rev. Father J. M. Kerrins (Provincial of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart), has received the following letter by air mail from the Rev. Father M. McEncroe, M.S.C…
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THERE should be no delay in making preparations to meet the summer enemy—bush fires. Outbreaks have occurred already in some centres…
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Hundreds of persons ran for their lives when a fire, which at one time threatened the Royal Arcade, city,…
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Two fires in the suburbs—one at timber yards and another at manufacturing works—were checked yesterday before serious damage was done…
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Harold James Hend, 30, was before Mr. C. Pickup, P.M., charged with the careless use of fire at Wentworth Falls. Police charged him with having lit a fire and with having…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →BERLIN G.P.O. Is Burnt-out Shell Destruction By British Bombs Revealed Rail System in Chaos Vital Factories Wiped Out LONDON
Berlin's General Post Office is a blackened fire-gutted shell, the city's main gas works is a tangle of steel and wreckage, and five large…
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