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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 109

Singapore's Guns Blaze At Japs In Decisive Battle SINGAPORE

The Sun · Monday 2 February 1942 · page 1

Singapore's giant guns, many of them turned about to face the Malayan mainland, began last night hurling tons of steel and high-explosive across the Straits of Johore. The Japanese invaders having reached the other shore -- they…

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Japs Did Not Fire Shot in Malayan Withdrawal Singapore Prepares For Great Siege

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 February 1942 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Monday.--Amazing feature of the Allied withdrawal from Malaya to Singapore Island was the entire lack of Japanese opposition. Not one shot was fired and not one Allied soldier was soldier the…

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Two Fire Calls In Raid Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 2

The Fire Brigade received two calls to fires during the blackout last night. Only one engine, the "flier," was fitted with blackout masks,…

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Great Smoke Pall Over Besieged Singapore Jap Planes Start Fires, Prepare For Big Assault SINGAPORE

The Sun · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 1

Black smoke floated across Singapore all day yesterday from fires started by Japanese bombs. Preliminary to their threatened all-out blitz, for which Singapore is tensed and waiting, Japanese bombers started…

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Fires Mark Norwegian Resentment of Quisling

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Oslo Radio announces that after Quisling's installation as Premier of Norway, fires broke out in both eastern and…

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Fires Mark Norwegian Resentment of Quisling

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Oslo Radio announces that after Quisling's installation as Premier of Norway, fires broke out in both eastern and…

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Fires Mark Norwegian Resentment of Quisling

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Oslo Radio announces that after Quisling's installation as Premier of Norway, fires broke out in both eastern and…

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Fires Mark Norwegian Resentment of Quisling

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Oslo Radio announces that after Quisling's installation as Premier of Norway, fires broke out in both eastern and…

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Fires Mark Norwegian Resentment of Quisling

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Oslo Radio announces that after Quisling's installation as Premier of Norway, fires broke out in both eastern and…

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Fires Mark Norwegian Resentment of Quisling

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Oslo Radio announces that after Quisling's installation as Premier of Norway, fires broke out in both eastern and…

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Automatic Fire Bomb Remover

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

MR. E. J. ASHBY, of Croydon, demonstrates a device for the quick and safe removal of bombs. It is a combination hoe and shovel, fitted with a shield which protects the operator from flying sparks. Pressure on a lever releases a sliding flap which drops over the…

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Automatic Fire Bomb Remover

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

MR. E. J. ASHBY, of Croydon, demonstrates a device for the quick and safe removal of bombs. It is a combination hoe and shovel, fitted with a shield which protects the operator from flying sparks, Pressure on a lever releases a sliding flap which drops over the…

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Automatic Fire Bomb Removes

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

MR. E. J. ASHBY, of Croydon, demonstrates a device for the quick and safe removal of bombs. It is a combination hoe and shovel, fitted with a shield which protects the operator from flying sparks, Pressure on a lever releases a sliding flap which drops over the…

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Automatic Fire Bomb Remover

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

MR. E. J. ASHBY, of Croydon, demonstrates a device for the quick and safe removal of bombs. It is a combination hoe and shovel, fitted with a shield which protects the operator from flying sparks. Pressure on a lever releases a sliding flap which drops over the…

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Automatic Fire Bomb Remover

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

MR. E. J. ASHBY, of Croydon, demonstrates a device for the quick and safe removal of bombs. It is a combination hoe and shovel, fitted with a shield which protects the operator from flying sparks. Pressure on a lever releases a sliding flap which drops over the…

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Automatic Fire Bomb-Remover

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 3

MR. E. J. ASHBY, of Croydon, demonstrates a device for the quick and safe removal of bombs. It is a combination hoe and shovel, fitted with a shield which protects the operator from flying sparks. Pressure on a lever releases a sliding flap which drops over the…

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The Catholic Man on the Land Bombs and Bush Fires

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 22

With the war practically at our shores, it would be wise for the man on the land to take every precaution against the intensified danger of bush fires in…

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Drama At Fire Brigade

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 6

Training of a fireman in N.S.W. might well include a course in dramatic art, judging by the exhibition of histrionic talent…

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Electric Light Poles on Fire

The Biz · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 6

The [?] engineer of Cabra-Vale Council, Mr. P. Powditch, reported on Monday night that, at approximetely 9 p.m. on Sunday, 1st inst., there poles…

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Fires and Bombs in Norway Quisling as Premier Resented

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Feb. 4 (A.A.P.).—A wave of fires and bombings is sweeping Norway because of resentment at the appointment of…

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