Cease-fire in Kashmir
"NEW DELHI, Sun. (A.A.P.).—It was officially announced that the cease fire had been ordered in Kashmir, centre of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
158 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 8
Schoolboys' Fire Threatens Houses
COFF'S HARBOUR, Tues—Schoolboys who lit a fire to smoke bees from a bees' nest they proposed to rob, are…
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During 1948 the Grafton Fire Brigade turned out to answer 13 calls, the most serious being the fire which destroyed the Grafton…
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Residents in Victoria Street, Harbour, formed a bucket brigade on Tuesday to prevent a bush spreading to the…
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TEL AVIV, Thursday (A.A.P.).— Reuter's Tel Aviv correspondent says the Israeli Cabinet is understood to have accepted in principal the U.N.O…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Fri. (A.A.P.),—Dr. Ralph Bunche, Acting United Nations' Mediator on Palestine, announced yesterday that Israeli and Egypt had agreed to a cease-fire effective from 10 p.m. to-day, Australian Eastern Standard time. The earliest…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.—Horace Stanley Mulcahy, 62, a law clerk, of South Melbourne, was suffocated by smoke fumes when a fire…
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GENEVA, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Twelve Swiss children and a 20 year old nurse were burned to death to-day in a fire which…
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COWRA, Wed. — Damage estimated at a quarter of a million pounds was caused when a fire gutted one of the biggest…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Fearing for their safety a farmer frantically seized his wife and two children, and threw them…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).—Three-year-old Alia Abranova, daughter of a Soviet Consulate official, died in hospital after…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.—For three hours last night the entire township of Charlton was threatened by fire which caused…
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The winning essays of the Police Essay Competition, 1948, on Bush Fire Prevention, have been announced…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners advised Grafton City Council last night that it intended to visit Grafton at the earliest…
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NANKING, Wed. (A.A.P.).—A high Nationalist official has stated that the Executive Yuan has decided to issue a cease-fire order to the Nationalist armies, and to send a delegation to negotiate peace with the Communists…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Fire Calls Early Last Night
Grafton Fire Brigade had two fire calls within an hour and a quarter early last night, but in neither case did fireman…
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ULMARRA, Mon.—When the petrol in the carburettor of a car on which he was working caught fire, Dalas Campbell, single, of…
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"For two years legislation has been prepared which has the backing of the State Government and the Councils, but for some…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Tues.—(A.A.P).—The U.N.O. Commission for Indonesia received information from Batavia last night that at 9 p.m…
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MANILA, Sun. (A.A.P.).—Cotabato, City in the Southern Philippines was literally razed by a ftre early yesterday…
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