Police Fire On Reds
Rome, March 22.—The Communist-led General Confederation of Labor last night called a 12hour, nation-wide general strike…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Rubbish Fire
A rubbish fire in a lane at the rear of the Crystal Theatre was extinguished at 12.18 a.m. yesterday by the Central Fire Brigade…
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Sydney.—More than £5000 worth of kapok and horsehair was destroyed by a fire which swept premises of L. Josephs Pty. Ltd.,…
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New York, March 27.—American cargo ship Santa Rita (8297 tons), carrying 4,000 cases of dynamite, raced towards Balboa…
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A meeting of the Tibooburra Fire Fighting organisation was held at Tibooburra on Saturday when matters relating to the Bush Fires Act were discussed…
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Oil round the top of an exhaust pit at the Galena Street power house ignited and burnt a section of the wall on the western side of…
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Sydney.—A young married man and two baby sons were burned to death in a condemned weatherboard cottage at Manly last night. Victims were Albert Charles Bassett (28),…
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Washington, April 11.—Shots were exchanged last Saturday over the Baltic between a Russian fighter and a U.S. bomber, an American reporter alleged today…
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Mr. J. Johns, who was third Officer, of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade until his retirement from the service 12 months ago through…
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Tokio (AAP-Reuter) April 14—One quarter of the seaside resort of Atamd was razed 72 persons were treated for burns and an estimated 50,000 have been…
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Shortly after midday yesterday a motor car caught fire opposite the South Police Station in Patton Street. No damage was caused…
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Melbourne.—An 85-year-old Chinese, Ah Fat, died in a fire which destroyed his home at Maryborough, 90 miles from…
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Adelaide, April 17.—Dry and recently warm conditions in S.A. in contrast to the eastern States weather produced today on unusual phenomenon for…
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Singapore (AAP-Reuter), April 18. Casualties in the oil fire at palao Samboo island, near Singapore, are now five dead,and in hospital with…
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Central Fire Brigade answered a call at 9.22 a.m. yesterday to Mr. A. J. Lithgow's residence at 322 Chlroide Street. A small cellar…
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At 9.22 a.m. on Saturday the Central Fire Brigade was called to 332 Chloride Street where there was a small fire in the cellar. It was extinguished by…
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New York, April 25.—A wooden framed building in the University of California's cyclotron area at Berkeley caught fire, but a shift…
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The Central Fire Brigade attended a small grass fire in Beryl Street, off Bromide Street, shortly before 2.30 p.m.. today. The fire…
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Melbourne.—Thomas Henry Musgrove, 77, was burned to death when his weatherboard house at Torrumbarry was destroyed…
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