Graphic Picture of Ship Blaze In Melbourne
ONE OF THE BIGGEST waterfront fires in Melbourne's history followed a series of explosions in the 10,000 ton British freighter…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
339 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 17
Huge Factory Fire
Adelaide, August 10.— £30.000 worth of damage was done when a cellulose factory near Millicent went up in flames this afternoon. The fire could be seen…
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Lieut-General Spoor, Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Forces in Java, whose troops have been ordered to cease hostilities by…
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SYDNEY—A 77-year-old woman was burnt to death at 2.30 yesterday morning in a blaze which destroyed her home in…
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MELBOURNE—Desperate efforts by her next-door neighbor failed to prevent Annie Thompson, 84-year-old spinster, from being burned to…
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Melbourne. August 12. — A special committee will meet tomorrow to make arrangements for an inquiry into fire hazards at oil wharves on the Lower…
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Batavia (A.A.P. Reuter), August 14—More infringements of the "Cease-Fire" by Republicans are claimed in today's Dutch Army…
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Batavin (A.A.P.-Reuter's), August 15.—Sabotage is suspected as the cause of one of the biggest fires in Batavia's history, which is raging…
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Melbourne, August 15.—A fire which raged for ever two hours before it was quelled only to break out later and burn for another hour caused damages…
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MELBOURNE.—With fires blaz ing in the hold, the freighter Pioneer early today steamed at full pressure for Port Phillip and…
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London, August 22—If the Security Council refrains from ordering the Indonesian Republic to cease present hostilities "by which they violate the Council's cease fire order", there con be no doubt that Dutch "police action" will be…
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Grafton, August 25.—A fire caused serious damage at the Harwood sugar mill today and at a late hour was still burning. Three large sheds were…
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Port Alberal (British Columbia August 26—Fire swept the waterfront here last night and destroyed the 1,500,000 dollar Government assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"With Blood and Fire" India is Settling Her Racial Problems
New Delhi, August 27.—With blood and fire the people of divided Punjab are setting the problem which the Boundary Commission left unsolved—separation of Moslems from Sikhs and Hindus—says Reuter's correspondent in Lahore…
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Lake Success. August 27.—The security Council for the second time has called on the Dutch and Indonesians to cease fire. A vote, which ten nations…
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The South Fire Brigade was called to a fire at the corner of Morish and Central Streets at 6.21 o'clock last night. The fire was…
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MELBOURNE.—An 89-year- old Prahran woman died in a sleepout fire at 5 a.m. today…
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SYDNEY—Suffering severely from shock a 83-year-old woman was rescued by her daughter-inlaw from a blazing 12-roomed…
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NEWCASTLE.—One of the worst fires in New castle's history today caused damage estimated…
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SYDNEY.—A woman who was trapped in her locked bedroom at Balmain today was critically burned when the room caught fire…
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