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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

303 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 16

Big Fire Constantinople Law Courts Constantinople

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 December 1933 · page 5

A fire destroyed the old Law Courts, containing half a million documents. The damage is estimated at £1,000,000. The fire has resulted in paralysis of the…

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Reichstag Fire Trial Alleged Third Degree Methods Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 December 1933 · page 5

Communist workers at the Reichstag fire trial to-day, retracted their earlier statements that a revolution was planned, alleging that the police extorted them,…

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£4000 DAMAGE Big Fire At Griffith Splendid Save Griffith

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 4

Damage estimated at approximately £4000, was caused by a fire which broke out at Green's bargain store, the largest in the town, to-night…

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Damaged by Fire Wool Scouring Works. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1933 · page 5

Much damage was done to the wool scouring works of Wright and Bruce, at [?] Mascot, this morning by fire. Shortly [?] after 4 o'clock the nightwatchman [?]…

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[?] Rush Fire Brigades [?] Organisation and Equipment

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 6

[?] in a previous issue the danger of [?] ensive damage, from bush fires in dis [?]cts not adequately protected was [?] phasised, and the attention of…

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Local and General Fire Brigade Receives Call

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 4

The Grafton Fire Brigade, with Substation Officer A. H. Webber in charge, hastened to No. 64 Mary street at 2.40 p.m. on Saturday when an outbreak of…

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Through Our Telescope Fire Brigade Was Bogged

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 7

Complaining of the state of a drain in Robert street, Argenton, a speaker at a deputation, which waited on the Lake, Macquarie Shire Council, declared that…

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Salvage Corps Allegation Of Frauds Sequel to London Fires Prisoner Implicates Chief Officer. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 December 1933 · page 5

Brynmor Miles, chief officer of the London Salvage Corps, which is financed by the insurance companies, again appeared at Bow Street to-day…

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Twin Babies Mother's Harrowing Experience Children Burned in Bed Fire. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 December 1933 · page 4

To see the clothing of her two four-months-old twins alight in a bed which was in flames was the harrowing experience of Mrs. James Linniger, of Wynnum…

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Tragic Fire End of Marathon Dance Three Killed, Others Injured. Hampden (Maine)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 December 1933 · page 5

A five weeks' dance marathon ended to-day in death for three of the contestants and injuries to many others, when a fire broke out in the building where the…

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Big Melbourne Blaze Timber Yard Destroyed Several Men Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 December 1933 · page 5

A hazardous fight with a big timber yard- fire took place to-night when the timber yards of R. and J. Linary, of Prahran, were razed to the…

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Water Frozen When Brigade Fought Fire Blaze at Mental Hospital. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 5

A thousand patients in Glamorgan Mental Hospital at Bridgend were endangered by fire at midnight which destroyed the administrative block,…

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Fire Trial Address by Prosecutor. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 5

Addresses were commenced in the Reichstag fife trial to-day while Parrisius, assistant public prosecutor, in an impassioned five-hour speech, summed up…

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Fire Trial No Evidence Against Three Accused. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 December 1933 · page 5

The Director of Prosecution in the Reichstag fire trial to-day demanded the death penalty for Torgler and Van dor Lubbe, two of the accused, for sustained…

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Reichstag Fire Addresses in Defence Prisoners Remanded for Sentence. Leipzig

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 5

Herr Sack, in a four and a half hours' eloquent speech, urged Torgler's acquittal at the Reichstag fire trial. He emphasised that the evidence had not…

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Hushed Up Moscow Prison Fire Loss of Life Denied. Berlin, S[?]day

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 5

It is sensationally reported in a Warsaw (Poland) broadcast that L[?]byanka person, in Moscow, was burnt down with great loss of life, including numerous Ogp[?]…

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Communists Demonstration in London Against Reichstag Fire Trial. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 5

Two hundred East End Communists, including women and girls, marched on the German Embassy to-day to protest against the Reichstag fire trial. They…

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Died From Burns Stove Fire Set Clothes Alight. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 December 1933 · page 5

While bending over a stove at home yesterday Mrs. Alice Durie was terribly burned when her clothing caught alight. She died in the hospital some hours…

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Ten Trapped in Fire Japanese Brewery Destroyed. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 December 1933 · page 5

A fire destroyed the Sake brewery, at Naganoken, at 1.30 a.m. Employees were trapped in a dormitory. Ten are dead, and four in a critical condition…

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'Violation of Justice' International Inquiry Report the Reichstag Fire. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 December 1933 · page 5

The report of the informal International Commission of Inquiry into the Reichstag fire was issued to-day, and declares it is impossible that Van de…

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