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Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 109

U.S. Warships Aiding Dutch Against Invaders Bombers Set Enemy Battleship On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1

SAID to be assisted by American warships, Dutch garrisons are putting up a desperate struggle against Japanese forces which have landed at two places in the Netherlands East Indies-- Tarakan Island, rich oil centre of the Borneo east coast, and three…

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U.S. Warships Aiding Dutch Against Invaders Bombers Set Enemy Battleship On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1

SAID to be assisted by American warships, Dutch garrisons are putting up a desperate struggle against Japanese forces which have landed at two places in the Netherlands East Indies-- Tarakan Island, rich oil centre of the Borneo east coast, and three…

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U.S. Bombers Set Fourth Japanese Capital Ship On Fire New York

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1

Hit three times by heavy U.S. bombers off Davao (Philippines) a Japanese battleship…

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Dutch Fight Savagely to Hurl Out Invaders U.S. Bombers Set Jap Battleship On Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1

SAID to be assisted by American warships, Dutch garrisons are putting up a desperate struggle against Japanese forces which have landed at two places in the Netherlands last Indies-- Tarakan Island, rich oil centre of the Borneo east coast, and three…

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Sabotage Suspected 3 Firemen Die In Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday. --Police are investigating a theory of sabotage in connection with a big city fire in which three…

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3 Brisbane Firemen Die Sabotage Theory in Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- Police are investigating a theory of sabotage in connection with a big city fire in which three…

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3 Brisbane Firemen Die Sabotage Theory in Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday. --Police are investigating a theory of sabotage in connection with a big city fire in which three…

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3 Brisbane Firemen Die Sabotage Theory in Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- Police are investigating a theory of sabotage in connection with a big city fire in which three…

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3 Brisbane Firemen Die Sabotage Theory in Big Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- Police are investigating a theory of sabotage in connection with a big city fire in which three…

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Fire Razes Guest House

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

Kiaora Guest House, near Jenolan Caves, was razed by a fire today, and firemen and volunteers are fighting desperately…

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French Saboteurs Fire Shipyards

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).--French saboteurs set fire to shipyards on the River Seine, near Rouen (occupied France), reports the Daily Mail's…

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Fire Razes Guest House

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 5

Kiaora. Guest House, near Jenolan Caves, was razed by a fire today, and firemen and volunteers are fighting desperately…

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Fire Razes Guest House

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

Kiaora Guest House, near Jenolan Caves, was razed by a fire today, and firemen and volunteers are fighting desperately…

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Fire Razes Guest House

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 5

Kiaora Guest House, near Jenolan Caves, was razed by a fire today, and firemen and volunteers are fighting desperately…

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Air Raid Hint No. 14 Fighting Fires in Home

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 6

This is the fourteenth of a series of hints issued to the public by the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron) in…

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Raid Hint No. 13 Smother The Fire Bomb With Sand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

WHEN a fire bomb falls without causing a fire it can be smothered with dry sand, spread to a depth of one inch…

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Raid Hint No. 13 Smother The Fire Bomb With Sand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

WHEN a fire bomb falls without causing a fire it can be smothered with dry sand, spread to a depth of one inch…

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Sabotage Theory in £80,000 FIRE: 3 Die Brisbane

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

Three firemen are dead and vital food stocks valued at £80,000--described as the "greatest store of national emergency stocks in Queensland"--have been destroyed in a mysterious early-morning fire at an Army warehouse…

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Raid Hint No. 13 Smother The Fire Bomb With Sand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 5

WHEN a fire bomb falls without causing a fire it can be smothered with dry sand, spread to a depth of one inch…

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Raid Hint No. 13 Smother The Fire Bomb With Sand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

WHEN a fire bomb falls without causing a fire it can be smothered with dry sand, spread to a depth of one inch…

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