Fire In Van Delays Traffic
City traffic was held up for 10 minutes yesterday when a furniture van, loaded with chairs, burst into flames at the corner of Pitt and Park Streets…
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"Two Great Fires of London." New York, Dec. 31
The "New York Times," in a leading article, describes Sunday night's raid on London as Hitler's last attempt before the year's end to destroy the heart of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Million to Fight Fire Bombs in London London
To-day the Minister for Home Security (Mr. Herbert Morrison) announced that he wanted 1,000,000 volunteers to fight incendiary bombs and to serve as a mighty reserve to the A.R.P. as the Home Guard is to the Regular Army…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Driver Unaware of Lorry Fire. Bystanders Shouted in Vain
Though bystanders were shouting warnings, a man driving a lorry loaded with upholstered chairs and lounge suites along Pitt Street, yesterday, did…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Need for Bush Fires
THERE is no need for bush fires which each year do untold damage throughout the country districts and which frequently results in the loss of human life…
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THE censor exercises a rigid control of the press-when comes to criticism of the Government or those controller the force…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Tank and Water Can Beat Worst Blaze
ALTHOUGH science has given splendid aid in fighting bushfires, the most effective means of combating the blaze at any stage is water…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Beaters Are an Insurance Against Grass Fires
CHEAPEST of all grnas fire insurance is the "Mangrovite" firebeator, obtainable nt all lending stores throughout tho length and breadth of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Be In Readiness To Fight Bush Fires Immediate Precautions May Save Pounds Ever Present Danger Menaces Assets of Every Landholder During Summer Months
THE man on the land can never cease his fight against Nature. Until a few weeks ago the majority of primary producers were battling against drought. Then came the rain, which, as it happily does in this country, changed the outlook entirely in a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →House Destroyed Blaze at Lemongrove
A weatherboard cottage at 21 Doonmove Street, Lemongrove, owned by MrL. Judges, of Penrith, and occupied by Mr and Mrs R. Smith, was destroyed…
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At the outbreak of war, members of London's Auxiliary Fire Services were treated as a national joke…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Cottage Destroyed by fire
A weatherboard cottage in Hargreaves Street, Blackheath the property of Thomas Edward Beadman, of Derby Street, Penrith, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Fire Beaters Give Place to New
IN the old days the most popular weapon to fight a bush or grass fire was a green branch plucked hurriedly from a tree, or a bug dipped in water…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lull in Raids. Fire Lesson. Call for More Spotters. London, Jan. 1. (A.A.P.)
Apart from isolated attacks by single aircraft near the coast, no raiders have visited Britain since dusk on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sought His Death in Car Blaze Melbourne
Grim method of suicide was chosen by William Thomas Law, 30, whose charred body was found in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great German Seaport in Flames Bremen Paid Back For London Ruin 20,000 Fire-bombs in an Hour Docks, Railways, Air Plant Wrecked LONDON
Terrible punishment was inflicted on the great German seaport of Bremen last night, when the Royal Air Force showered docks and harborside factories with 20,000 incendiary bombs in the first hour of a 3 12…
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Many more thousands of fire-bombs, it was revealed to-night, were showered by the R.A.F. on the port of Bremen in a determined plan to destroy the ship-building yards and submarine base…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires Of Rebellion May Flare In Strangest Kingdom While death rains front "the, central blue" on the real nations of Europe, the weirdest kind of rebellion is being hatched in a country that does not exist
SOON the thistledown GipsyWorld, floating in the breezes of a continent, 'may be riven asunder by the violence of civil…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire "Blitz" in West
B.U.P.—Exclusive—LONDON, Saturday. THE Nazis turned the force of their fire "blitz" on a West England town last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Back-fire Broke Arm
JUNEE, Saturday. -- While William Turner was cranking a tractor on a property between Junee and Coolamon the engine back-fired and…
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