Two Burned In Paintshop Fire
Two men were burned and others had narrow escapes from injury when a fire started among highly inflammable paints in a workshop at Erskineville today…
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Big Hunt For Maniac Who Started 15 Fires In 10 Days
LONDON, Friday.—-One of the biggest forces of police and firemen ever seen in the bomb-battered area is patrolling south-east London—waiting for a fire alarm to ring. THE force is hunting for a maniac…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Spark in Bird's Nest Causes Fire in School
JUNEE, Thursday. -- A spark from a defective chimney, lodging in a bird's nest, caused a fire on Wednesday night at Junee Central School. Detective Cloke, of Wagga,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Raiders Over Japan
FLAMES sweep through the flimsy buildings of Nemuru, northern Japanese city, during a fire raid by Allied carrier-based planes.--U.S. Navy photo…
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When a shop in Oxford-street, Paddington, was gutted by fire this afternoon, crowds of children broke queues outside West's Olympia Theatre, 50 yards away, delaying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire From the Sky Strikes at Japan
Low-flying U.S. Navy planes photographed this Japanese village, Nemuru, on Hokkaido, after the city had been attacked by carrier-based planes of the U.S. Third Fleet during a sweep of the Japanese home islands last month. (U.S. Navy picture)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burnt out -- but not wiped out
On the 21st of December, 1944, Mr. --, of Port Elliot, South Australia, posted to his insurance Office the proposal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How They Work at the Fire Brigade
RECENTLY, with some fellow members of the Young Women's Christian Association, I spent an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A special attraction! Kids Leave Movies to See Shop Fire
CHILDREN turned their backs on a film matinee in a Paddinglon cinema yesterday to watch a fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boys Blamed for Fire
Boys are blamed for starting a fire which burned thousands of secondhand bags in a building adjoining the works of Stuart Bros., coopers, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Jap Cities Doomed Leaflets Warn Of Fire Raids
GUAM, Sunday.--Super-Fortress leaflet raiders today warned nearly 1,000,000 Japanese that their cities would be wiped out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On4000-ton Fire-raid On Jap Cities: 580 Planes, 1 Lost
GUAM, Monday--More than 580 Superfortresses from the Marianas dropped4000 tons of fire-bombs on Japan late last night. Earlier Tokio radio had reported an assault by 130 of the big planes against…
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A fire which took fo[?]r and a half hours to extinguish, broke out in kapok at the factory of John Lawler and Sons, bedding manufacturers, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Speedy 6-Furlong Trial by Fire Chat
Fire Chat, a surprise entry for the Lord Mayor's Cup at Canterbury on Saturday, ran six furlongs in 1.20 at Randwick yesterday, after having…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Ship On Fire In Atlantic
MONTREAL, Thursday. -- The 7000-ton cargo ship Angos Hill is on fire in the Atlantic, 285 miles east of Halifax. Nova…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Action Urged To Check Fire Menace This Summer
THE need for immediate steps being taken to prepare for the coming bushfire season was stressed by speakers at a conference at Narromine last week between Timbrebongie Shire Council and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Hail Hits Japan Allies Use New Deadly Bomb Navy`s Guns Roar Again
A TERRIBLE new bomb which starts almost inextinguishable fires of terrific intensity is quickening the death throes of Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It's Easy To Organise That Blaze Of Color
Celosias are once again becoming popular, more especially the dwarf types, and, first sowings can be made at any time this month. FLAME of Fire is probably the best of the bedding celosias. It grows only to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Musical Drum-Fire
AT a London concert some time ago a musician, playing a particularly vigorous "trill" on his tinkling triangle, lifted the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ambulance Van Catches Fire on Harbor Bridge
A Central District ambulance caught fire in the middle of the Harbor, Bridge last night. The ambulance was stopped in a cloud of smoke, while the…
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