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AERIAL BOMB, dropped by on enemy plane, bursting over the wing of a U.S. bomber during a recent Allied attack on Timor. These rocket-like explosives carry up to 80 smaller bombs and scatter them over a wide area.--U.S. Army Air Corps picture…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Frank Pickering has been appointed officer-in-charge of the Hurstville Fire Brigade, in succession to Mr. J. Shuttleworth, who retired…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The office building of the Federal Machinery Co., Ltd., at the corner of Loftus and Hurst Streets, Arncliffe, was destroyed by fire early last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extensive damage was caused by a fire which destroyed St. Patricks presbytery at Lochinvar early on Thursday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last Saturday night a fire broke out, in a suite of rooms occupied by Dentist A.G. Peck in the Commonwealth Bank Buildings, Forest Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FIRE in the tramway signal box at Rozelle tram depot yesterday afternoon caused damage to the extent of £240. The fire was caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A FIRE in the tramway signal box at Rozelle tram depot yesterday afternoon caused damage to the extent of £240. The fire was caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON Friday.--Gilbraitar has had its second mystery petrol blaze within a week. Flames 100ft. high lit up the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Friday. -- Gibraltar has had its second fire within a week. A blaze 100 feet high lit up the face of the Rock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Saturday.—A faulty radiogram wire started a fire which burnt out the London flat of former Australian film star Mary…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Tiddles, a pet cat belonging to Mrs. Waugh, of Kingsford, chased birds to the top of a 55ft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PERTH, Monday.-- Oxygen- breathing apparatus had to be worn by firemen who took eight hours to extinguish a phosphorus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mysterious outbreak of small fires at a block of flats in Greville-street, Clovelly, is being investigated by detectives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A two-storey home at Osborne Road, Manly, occupied by Miss E. Ling, was damaged by fire last night. The fire broke out in the upper floor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wedged between two large drums of chemicals only a few feet from a blazing cauldron of disinfectant, John Henry Lewis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Clovelly schoolboy, aged 14, told police yesterday that he had started five small fires at a block of flats where he lived…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →UNDER SCREEN OF TERRIFIC air and naval bombardment, British, Canadian and American troops stormed the beaches of Sicily in the early hours of last Saturday morning. This radio picture, first of the actual landing, shows the men, in battle dress. with their packs, wading through the surf. The invasion has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →UNDER SCREEN OF TERRIFIC air and naval bombardment, British, Canadian and American troops stormed the beaches of Sicily in the early hours of last Saturday morning. This radio picture, first of the actual landing, shows the men, battle dress, with their packs, wading through the surf. The invasion has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Next Wednesday night residents of Cronulla will have the opportunity of witnessing some fine films on Fire Fighting and Fire Guards, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lions roared and other frightened animals screamed as firemen this morning fought far more than an hour to extinguish a fire which gutted the kiosk at Taronga Park Zoo. Damage is estimated at…
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