Fire in Rail Bridge Holds Up All Traffic for 16 Hours
Daily Mirror · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 3
INNISFAIL, Friday.--All rail traffic between Cairns and Townsville was held up for 16 hours this week when a low level bridge over the South Johnstone River, four miles from Innisfail, was damaged by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Fiction Bomber Command "The Fire Is Bright," by Leslie Kark.—Macmillan. "Pathfinders," by Cecil Lewis. —Michael Joseph
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 April 1944 · page 6
Richard Hillary's "Last Enemy" is the only book of this war with an atmosphere comparable with "The Fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£50,000 Blaze
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Geelong timber mills, at Barwon Downs, owned by Hayden Bros., have been destroyed by fire. Loss is estimated at £ 50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop Press Another Frisco Fire
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 12
SAN FRANCISCO Monday.--my serious and spectacular blaze the second major fire in the city in less than a work swept through…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Japanese Menace to India Grows Every Hour Mortar Fire On Highway
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 3
LONDON, Monday.-- Desperate measures ore being token to defend Assam from the menace of Japanese infiltration growing hourly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese Menace to India Grows Every Hour Mortar Fire On Highway
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 3
LONDON, Monday.-- Desperate measures are being taken to defend Assam from the menace of Japanese infiltration, growing hourly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese Menace to India Grows Every Hour Mortar Fire On Highway
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 3
LONDON, Monday.-- Desperate measures are being taken to defend Assam from the menace of Japanese infiltration, which is growing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese Menace to India Grows Every Hour Mortar Fire On Highway
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 3
LONDON, Monday.-- Desperate measures are being taken to defend Assam from the menace of Japanese infiltration, growing hourly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Trapped by Bushfire
The Sun · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 3
HARDEN, Monday.--A bushfire, 12 miles from Harden, yesterday swept over 15,000 acres of pasture land, destroying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wide Damage By Bushfire
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 5
HARDEN, Monday.-- A fire which broke out yesterday about four miles from Harden travelled 15 miles before being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stop Press Wide Damage by Bushfire
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 12
HARDEN, Monday.-- A fire Which broke out yesterday about four takes from Harden travelled 15 miles before being checked About…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stop Press Wide Damage by Bushfire
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 12
HARDEN, Monday.-- A fire Which broke out yesterday about four miles from Harden travelled 15 miles before checked About…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wide Damage By Bushfire
Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 4
HARDEN, Monday.-- A fire which broke out yesterday about four miles from Harden travelled 15 miles before being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosion Causes Fire
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 3
RED CROSS supplies were damaged when a fire broke out on a ship at an Australian port last night. The fire, which was quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese Hard Hit in Aerial Sweeps Wewak, Hansa Bay Blasted Huge Fires at Rabaul
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 4
ALLIED planes have struck far and wide at enemy forces in the north, it is reported in General MacArthur's communique today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bushfire Sweeps Big Pasture Area
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 7
HARDEN, Monday.--Soldiers home on leave helped 100 firefighters to extinguish a bushfire which swept 15 miles over pasture land at Harden on Sunday. The fire began nine miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Insurance of Bush Fire Fighters?
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1944 · page 5
Contending that volunteer bush fire fighters should be insured by the State Government, Willimbong Council is seeking the co-operation of local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jap Fire Trap In Burma LONDON
The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1944 · page 2
Trapped by Japs, who set fire to the jungle and covered the exits with machine-guns, many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Starts a Fight Lively Scenes in Residential
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1944 · page 9
A fire smouldering in a bedroom on the first floor of the Commonwealth Residential in Campbell Street, city, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Say Body Left in Cottage Fire Days
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1944 · page 2
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--While the body of his wife, with portion of her head blown off, lay in the kitchen of their home at Morphett Vale since Friday, Edwin Charles Elliott, vigneron, allegedly worked…
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