Wesel Defences Under Fire Our War Correspondent. H. A. Standish
ON THE RHINE, March 12.— The enemy's sudden withdrawal from his Wesel bridgehead on Saturday night, 48 hours after…
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300 Superforts Fire Jap 2nd City; Drop 2300 Tons
GUAM, Wednesday.--Osaka, Japan's second city, was attacked today in the third large-scale fire-bomb raid on Japan in five days. About 300 Superfortresses dropped 2300 tons, burning an area…
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A fire-engine chased a tram for more than 300 yards yesterday before the driver realised the tram was on fire and stopped. Women screamed and some passengers, got on to the running…
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Sprayed with petrol, Chief Petty Officer H. P. Richens, stood ablaze from head to feet in the midst of a large crowd…
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Sprayed with petrol, Chief Petty Officer H. P. Richens, stood ablaze from head to feet in the midst of a large crowd…
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Sprayed with petrol, Chief. Petty, Officer H. P. Richens,. stood ablaze from head to feet iii the midst of a large crowd…
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R.A.N. fire-fighting instructors d[?]ssed in fire-proof su[?] extinguishing an oil fire during a War Loan demonstration in Martin Place yesterday…
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GUAM, Saturday.--In the biggest incendiary raid in history, more than 300 Superfortresses dropped 2500 tons of fire bombs on Kobe, Japan's chief port, yesterday. The target area was a five-mile square in the heart of the city,…
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LONDON, March 16.— The Red Army, making a decisive effort to clean up the Baltic front, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TODAY: The world at war the Pacific The heat of Tokio's fires burnt their eyeballs out
Af ter the Superfortress incendiary bomb raids there was panic in the Japanese cities of Tokio, Nagoya, Osaka. Tass (Moscow) news agency…
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UNDER shellfire, 162 priests, nuns and orphans were rescued yesterday after having been Japanese prisoners in a leper asylum in Mandalay, chief city in central Burma. One priest was killed and four others were injured when Japanese…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Fire broke out in the briquette factory at Yallourn early to-day. Damage to the buildings and plant was small, but it…
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Premises occupied by the New Theatre League, in Castlereagh- street, would be a "veritable death trap"in the event of fire…
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Flames were visible miles away when the second floor of McDonald's broom and brush factory, at the back of premises in 254 Norton Street,…
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The Fire Brigades' new award, which, among other concessions, reduces the men's working hours from 78 a week to 63, will…
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Two charges of unfairness have been levelled against the Sydney Daily Telegraph this week…
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NEW YORK, Monday.--Heart of Nagoya, big Japanese city, was burned out today by 350 U.S…
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NEW YORK, March 19 (A.A.P.).—At dawn to-day more than 300 Marianas-based Super-Fortresses rained 2,500 tons of incendiary bombs on Nagoya. At the same time carrier-based fighters resumed their…
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GUAM, Wednesday.--In its frankest broadcast, yet, Tokio radio today admitted that fires devoured whole districts of Tokio in the 2300-ton fire-bomb raid on the city by Superfortresses on…
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There was grave risk of serious loss of life in the event of fire at certain city night clubs, cabarets,…
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