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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

303 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 16

Film Fire In Melbourne Street Spectacular Blaze Loss Estimated at £2500. MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 5

A motor lorry and over 100,000 feet of film were destroyed in a spectacular fire in Lonsdale street, city, this morning…

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Fire at South Grafton Dairy Shed Destroyed

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 4

Yesterday morning, the South Grafton Fire Brigade received a call out to a fire on the river bank opposite to the eastern end of Susan Island…

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Local and General. Visit of Fire Commissioners

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 2

The N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners, with the exception of the President (Hon. T. J. Smith, M.L.C., who returned to Sydney from Armidale…

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Fire-raising Gangs Prisoner As Informer. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 5

The "Daily Herald" says that Leopold Harris, one of those sentenced at the recent "fire raising" trial, has agreed to give evidence against numerous police…

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Reichstag Fire Report of London "Commission" Evidence Reviewed. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 5

Prior to reading the unanimous report of the "Reichstag Fire Commission," Mr. N. D. Pritt, K.C., chairman, admitted that it was incomplete because the…

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Fire Trial Burning Of The Reichstag Charges of High Treason Lubbe Bursts Into Laughter. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 September 1933 · page 5

The Reichstag fire trial opened in the Supreme Court here to-day. All five accused were charged with high treason for which the penalty is…

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Kyogle Fire Picture Theatre Destroyed Damage Estimated at £5600. KYOGLE

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 September 1933 · page 5

The Tivoli Garden Theatre, a one-storied building and one of the few wood and iron structures remaining in Kyogle, was totally destroyed by fire early this…

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Reichstag Fire Hunger Strike Ends. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 5

The principal accused in the Reichstag fire trial, Van Der Lubbe, ended his hunger strike when he ate normally to-day. He apparently has completely…

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Fire in Speedboat While Making Attempt on Mile Record. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 5

Making its first appearance since its return from America, Scott Paine's speedboat, the Miss Britain III., caught fire in Poole Harbor when he was attempting to…

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Reichstag Fire One Accused Denies Guilt. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 September 1933 · page 5

The Reichstag fire trial was continued to-day. One of the accused, Ernest Torgler, receiving permission to make a speech…

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Newcastle Fire Fed by 8000 Soap Boxes. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 5

Damage to the extent of £3000 was caused by a short-lived but fierce fire which completely destroyed the cooperage, box factory and storeroom of…

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Fire in Mine May Last a Week Cobar

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 5

Dense clouds of choking smoke fumes are continually enveloping the township as the fire, which commenced in the Great Cobar copper mine yesterday, still rages…

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Reichstag Fire Trial of Accused Strange Proceedings. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 5

Features of the Reichstag fire trial to-day were the elimination of important defence privileges of Van Der Lubbe because he said too little and of…

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Fire Station Costs

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 4

While the members of the Fire Board were at Bellingen last week C[?]. D. V. McNally, Shire President, brought under their notice the…

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Outburst at Reichstag Fire Trial Accused and Judge. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 5

To-day's session of the trial of five accused in the Reichstag fire trial closed with another violent clash between Dimitroff and the court…

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Bush Fires Destroy Hernani Homestead. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 September 1933 · page 5

Landholders in the Hernani district welcomed the rain this week. Bush fires in that area were becoming serious and caused a great deal of damage…

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35 DEAD Trapped In Bush Fire Hollywood Holocaust Flames Surround Relief Workers Canyon As Tomb. Los Angeles

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 5

Thirty-five men were burned to death late to-day in the hills above Hollywood, when a fire started suddenly in the Timber Lake underbrush,…

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Hollywood Fire 27 Bodies Recovered. Los Angeles

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 5

Twenty-seven bodies, charred and burned in yesterday's bush fire in the hills above Hollywood, have been recovered. Over 100 men are in hospital, suffering…

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Reichstag Fire Trial Van Der Lubbe's Confession. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 5

The Reichstag fire trial was resumed to-day. Van Der Lubbe, sullen and mumbling his replies, insisted that he alone had set fire to the Reichstag. He…

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Reichstag Fire Torgler's Story Nazi Propaganda Alleged. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 5

Giving evidence at the Reichstag fire trial, in which he is one of the accused, Ernst Torgler declared the first he knew of the fire was when a waiter in the…

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