Panama Nationals Fire on Demonstrators Ex-President Withdraws Resignation
Panama City, November 23.—National police opened fire as thousands of demonstrators, led by the ousted President (Dr. Daniel Chants), marched on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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The Barrier Miner Thursday, November 24, 1949. Risks of Fire in Harbor
CONCLUSION of the inquiry into the fire on board the excursion steamer Norona in a River St. Lawrence port seems likely to be merely a starting point for a shake-up of maritime practices. There is to be a more serious…
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Adelaide. November 24.—According to an alleged admission to the police the boys aged 8 and 10 years left their beds at 3 a.m. today, dressed and walked to…
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Jerusalem.—A fire in the Ho[?] S[?]pulchre has been extinguished No serious damage was done, [?] there is no fear of the done,…
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Adelaide.—A bottle pump fitted into an ordinary bike funnel is a novel, but effective addition to the equipment to be used by bush fire…
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Pastoralists in the Topar district will meet on Sunday to discuss the formation of a fire-fighting organisation similar to other bodies formed in the West Darling area in recent months…
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Washington, November 28. — The American freighter Sir John Franklin reported today that it was fired on and hit 12 times by a Chinese Nationalist warship off Shanghai…
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Berlin, November 28.— Deaths in an East zone uranium mine fire have reached 2000, the…
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Berlin, November 28.—Four hundred miners were killed in a fire in the Soviet zone uranium mines at Johunngeorge-stadt on November 14, according to the…
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The formation of a [?] fighting organisation by pastoralists in the Topar district on Sunday next will bring into line almost the [?] of West…
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Bega.—Trapped above flaming staircase, a guest jumped more than 15 feet from a veranda[?] to escape from a fire which gutted…
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Barl. November 30. — Two parading strikers were killed when police opened are last night after 12 police and one striker were injured earlier in fighting…
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Washington November 29.— Church Nationalist warship fired on and [?] the American freighter sir john Franklin on Shanghal. the master of the vessel [?]…
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The formation of a fire fighting organisation by pastoralists in the Topar district on Sunday next will bring into line almost the whole of the West…
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New York; December 4.—Fires or explosions in widely separated sections of the U.S. caused five deaths and did extensive damage…
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In,opening the meeting, Sgt. J. Newell,of Broken Hill, apologised for the absence of Inspector J; Canning. Sgt, Newell outlined the…
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Norman (Oklahoma), December 5.—A wooden dormitory housing [?]00 University of Oklahoma students was burned to the ground within a few minutes on…
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A meeting was held among a larger gathering of pastoralists on Sunday in the Little Topar area to form a [?] fighting organisation embracing…
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The Central Fire Brigade answered a call at 2.42 p.m. yesterday to a small fire in a dining room at 635 Williams Street. The fire was extinguished by a…
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A meeting was held among a large gathering of pastoralists on Sunday in the Little Topar area to form a fire fighting organisation embracing…
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