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Fires & bushfires, 1941

1,760 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 88

Fire Raid on Cardiff. Heavy Attack. Hospital Struck. LONDON, March 4. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 11

Raiders in waves last night attacked Cardiff in South Wales, first scattering indiscriminately the greatest number of incendiary bombs the…

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"The Red Terror." Fighting Bush Fires in N.S.W.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 16

"THE RED TERROR," the sixth film to be produced for and released by the Rural Bank of New South Wales, was given its first public release at the…

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Fire at Arncliffe

The Propeller · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 3

Last Sunday morning Arncliffe, Rockdale, and Kogarah fire brigades, attended a fire in Princes Highway, Arncliffe, where a weatherboard and…

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A Vivid Story Bank Film of Bush and Crop Fires

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 8

RURAL Bank film, "The read Terror," had more than usual interest for the people at the South-westorn Agricultural…

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THOUGHTS UnDER Fire a Letter From Libya

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 4

HAD I given the subject much thought prior to coming into action I should have decided that the…

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Modern Methods of Fighting Bush Fires; Film Tells Story

The Land · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 5

A REALISTIC, entertaining and educational film, "The Red Terror" has just been produced by the Rural Bank of N.S.W. to bring home to the people of the State the constant menace of bushfires and the efficient methods now being adopted to afford protection for our forests and farm…

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Fire-Bomb Precautions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 4

Plans for speeding-up precautionary measures to deal with fire-bombs were explained yesterday by the president of…

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700,000 To Spot Fires LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 1

Conscription of fire-spotters will not be necessary, because 700,000 volunteers enrolled by the middle of February…

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Civilians Under Fire London

The Sun · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 3

Enemy raiders this afternoon made streets their main targets. One swooped on a western town and sprayed several streets with…

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His Guns Once Opened, Fire On British Gunboat

The World's News · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 6

Kingore Hashimoto: "No contact with foreigners."…

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War Changed His Job Interior Decorator Now Fights Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 24

Australian interior decorator Arthur Boys, who shares a house at Park Gate, Petersham, England, with Roger Ackland, author and playwright, now spends his time putting out incendiary bombs which…

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Fire Engines Carry Curry MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 5

MRS. JACK KEMELFIELD is to give the biggest lunch ever attempted in Victoria at the Melbourne Town Hall, in aid…

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£30,000 Damage in Factory Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 March 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- A specacular blaze at Brighton late tonight caused damage estimated at nearly £30,000…

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Loses All in Flat Fire

The Sun · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 5

A young woman lost all her possessions, including a fortnight's wages, when her small King's Cross flat was gutted by fire today. Only the…

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£40,000 Art Loss In Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 2

More than £40,000 worth of pen drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, and etchings by Norman Lindsay, famous…

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Fires in Suburbs. Man Injured at Factory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 10

Firemen received several calls to outbreaks in the suburbs yesterday. A spark from a grinding machine is believed to have started a fire at the works of…

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Fire! Women in Training at Brigade Headquarters Community of Workers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 7

WOMEN are studying to become auxiliary fire-fighters. This new branch of A.R.P. work, which will train about 3,000 women to deal with incendiary bombs and small fires, is…

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Fire-bomb Raid. New London Attack. R.A.F. Hits Back. London, March 10. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 9

German Air raiders last light renewed attempts to set fire to London with incendiary bombs. Firemen and firewatchers put out hundreds of fires…

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Doctor's Last Minutes Under Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 6

"The bombs exploding aren't too pleasant," said Lieut.-Colonel Archibald James Cunningham, O.C., First Field Ambulance, A.I.F., in one of…

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Catholic Publishers Suffer in Great London Fire

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 30

The terrible fires which swept the city of London on Sunday night, December 29, after German bombers had showered down…

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