Saboteurs Start Fires
CAPETOWN, Tuesday. -- Six fires, which apparently had been started by saboteurs, broke out in Pretoria on Sunday night…
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Queen Visits Heroic Fire Victim
Cut off on the top floor of her blazing home, Mrs. Winifred Upton, 29, held her two-year-old son out the window so that he could get air. She was dreadfully burnt, but her son was saved. The Queen heard of her heroism and visited her in hospital, where she lay 14 months face downward. Mrs. Upton died recently from her injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Automatic Fire From Rifles "Let the Guns Talk." Says Inventor
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—"Get it built. Let it talk to the Japanese," was the only comment Mr. Phillip Charlton, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hills District Sacrifice Petrol for Fire Fighting
Some Hills district volunteer bushfire fighters has to sacrifice more of their petrol nation on service when outbreaks occurred,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Rabaul Fires After Bombing MELBOURNE
Large fires were started in a Japanese military camp and on the waterfront at Rabaul in a raid by Allied planes. Our machines were over this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires in Solomons Our War Correspondent Somewhere in Australia
Wednesday.—Aerial activity over the New Guinea area was on a small scale yesterday. Reconnaissance flights over Tulagi…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Admits Starting Fire, Police Allege
A 16-year-old youth admitted that he started four fires at Auburn about 1 a.m. on May 13 because he wanted to see the…
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A 16-year-old youth admitted that he started four fires at Auburn about 1 a.m. on May 13 because he wanted to see the…
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A 16-year-old youth admitted that he started four fires at Auburn about 1 a.m. on May 13 because he wanted to see the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Huge Fires at Tulagi Allied Raids in North Our Staff Correspondent
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Japan's diminished air attacks in the areas close to Northern Australia, despite her known…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →R.A.F. "Stocks Up" Great Essen Blaze Industrial Plants Blasted In Second Big Night Attack
LONDON, Wednesday. -- Essen, still smouldering from Monday night's devastating British air-raid, was again attacked in force by the R.A.F. last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gum Fay Tells Of A Fire In His Garden
How a fire at his Botany market garden burned for three weeks and destroyed crops valued at about £800, was told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gum Fay Tell Of A Fire In His Garden
How a fire at his Botany market garden burned for three weeks and destroyed crops valued at about £800. was told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Normandie Fire Naval Investigation
"During the past week," said the Weekly Underwriter (N.Y.), in its February 21st issue, "Navy officials conducted a private…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →R.A.F. Strikes at Bremen Bomb Attack Starts Large Fires In City
LONDON, Thursday.--The R.A.F. again attacked Germany last night, concentrating on Bremen, Germany's second port. Bremen, north-western Germany, population…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lubeck A Sea Of Fire After Terrific Air Raid
LONDON, Friday. -- "Imagine every building blazing betweeen the Central Station: the Harbor Bridge, Pyrmont Bridge and Wooloomooloo and you will visualise Lubeck as we saw it," Flight-Sergeant Noel Rose, of Randwick, who took part in the terrific raid on the Nazi port, told the Daily Mirror today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hit Nazis Till They Cry "Enough" No Let-up In Air Blows Looters Amok in Ruhr; Fires Rage in Bremen London
While endless relays of bombers and fighters maintained Britain's new round-the-clock offensive yesterday, Air-Marshal Harris, genius of the 1000-bomber raids declared: "We will not cease our operations until Hitler's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woollen Mills Fire
LITHGOW, Friday.—.A fire at the Lithgow woollen mills early to-day severely damaged one building and slightly damaged another…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hell Fire in Libya Battle
LONDON, Saturday.—("Truth's" Special Service)—As the guns roar in a new hellish engagement and as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.a.f. Bombers Pound Emden Base Ruhr and Naples Raids Large Fires Left Burning
LONDON, June 7 (A.A.P.).—The Royal Air Force continued its hammering of Germany last night by raiding Emden shipping base. Strong forces of bombers were over the port and they left large fires…
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