Fire at Bexley
At about 2.30 on Sunday morning the Kogarah, Bexley, and Arncliffe Fire Brigades were called out to a fire that had broken out in a semi-detached brick…
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Japs Fire Borneo Oilfields Resistance Stiffening
BORNEO, Wednesday.--The Japanese are setting fire to the oilfields in north-west Borneo as the A.I.F. Ninth Division advances…
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PLANTING of lucerne fire-breaks, about five chains wide, in fire-threatened areas, is a suggestion made by Mr. A. G…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Air-strip crews work under fire on Labuan Brunei Bay
HARDEST-worked unit on Labuan, for days, has been two pioneer works squadrons of a battle-seasoned RAAF Airfield Construction Wing. Working under fire, they have…
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An elderly woman's back was severely burned yesterday when she fell into an open fire. She is Mrs. Mary Luton, 74,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Japs Fear Borneo Landing Bombers Blaster Balikpanan Fires on Oilfield
BALIKPAPAN, Eastern Borneo, where the Japs fear a landing, and its airfield of Sepinggan have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor Burnt Out Menzies Claims
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Labor Party haj abolished Parliament, said the Leader of the Feder[?] Opposition (Mr. Menzies) at the inaugural meeting the Liberal Party in Victoria today…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on Country Property
Sydney police were advised yesterday that a fire on J. G. and O. C. Crowdice's station, Lachlan Downs, Cobar, had destroyed a wool shed and…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- The metropolitan area of Brisbane has been without a fire brigade since noon today. FIREMEN went on strike at that A hour when a stop-work meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Bombs Burn Cities of Japan
OSAKA.--Smoke billows from burning Osaka during the great Super-Fortress fire-raid on the city on June 1. The raiders set fire to almost the whole of the war production area of Osaka, Japan's second city and largest industrial centre. Japan's key cities have now been gutted and written off as Super-Fortress targets. BOMBS.--Super-Fortresses…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Peril In Factory
For falling to provide a file escape on premises at Waverley described as a "death-trap," Daniel Ussher Seaton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thieves Light Fire in House
Thieves who broke into a house in Park Rd., St. Leonards, occupied by Mrs. Edith Blandford, last night made a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mystery Fire at Farm School
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Within two weeks of the recent fire which destroyed the milking shed and machinery at the Lysterfield farm for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Forces Combine Argentine Regime Under Fire
NEW YORK, June 20 (A.A.P.). —Leaders of agriculture—an important economic force in Arsentina—have joineo battle to deal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire-fighters in Dramatic Action on Carrier
Scenes on the flight-deck of an aircraft-carrier of the British Pacific Fleet, after attacks by Japanese aircraft. Members of the fire-fighting unit of the carrier, clad in asbestos suits. are seen going into action with hosepipes and extinguishers after a British plane (top) had been wrecked during the attack. (Royal Navy Official picture.)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Borneo Oil Fires Raging Our War Correspondent, Jack Percival
MANILA, June 21.—Oil field fires started by the Japanese at Miri, 75 miles south of Brunei Bay, and farther south along the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Burrcutter and His Mate Frenzied Fire-fighting at Hungry Gully
"FIRE! Fire!" called the Burrcutter's wife, running out of the kitchen door and waving her arms to the Burrcutter and his mate, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire Chat Flew Home
After a brilliant outside run to win the 1st Division of the 3-Year-Old, A. Mulley brings Fire Chat back to scale at Randwick this…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire Chat Too Bright At Finish
After a series of "outs," A. Mulley returned to the winning list on Fire Chat in the first division of the Three-Year-Old Handicap at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire Victims Now Without a Home
MR. and MRS. M. KIRK and their two children. Pamela (3 12), and Robin (eight months), are homeless following a fire which…
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