Found £2645 After Fire
CAIRNS, Saturday.—When fire men were called to an outbreak in a boarding house at Cairns, they had little difficulty in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
437 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 22
Pitched Battle In Jerusalem Terrorists & Troops Exchange Fire
A gun battle between terrorists and troops and police raged in the heart of Jerusalem for an hour and a half on Saturday night. Road mines were discovered in many parts of the city. Jewish terrorists attacked the Mustashfa police barracks…
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The State Government has decided to introduce legislation in the Legislative Assembly next week to continue the national…
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From Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) it is reported that at least 11 persons were killed and 18 injured when the Hotel Barry caught afire in the early…
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NEW YORK, December 9.—The death roll may teach 127, it is feared, as the result of a fire in the 15-storey Winecoff Hotel, in Atlanta (Georgia) on Saturday. It was the worst hotel fire in the history of the United…
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At least 116 people have lost their lives as a result of the fire that swept through the 15-storey Winecoff Hotel, in Atlanta (Georgia) on Saturday. It is feared the death roll may reach 127. More than 100…
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The fire started on or near the fifth floor. It spread swiftly and, within a few minutes, the hotel— the Winecoff, in Atlanta's busiest…
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NEW YORK, December 8.—Trapped by fire in a 15-storey hotel in Atlanta which had no fire-escapes in the front of the building, about 122…
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ATLANTA, Dec 10.— The Fire Marshal (Mr. Harry Phillips) told the Board of Firemasters that investigators considered the…
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JERUSALEM, December 12.—Thirty Jews, believed to be members of the Haganah organisation, [?] Arab village near Salameah, near Jaffa, wounded the head man, abducted his son and cousin, and later “court-martialled” them for alleged theft of arms from a secret Jewish cache…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—After one of them had fired a shot at an intruder, three policemen overpowered and handcuffed a man at…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—A 21-years-old steward, who admittedly having set fire to a cabin of the vessel, Asturias, on a sudden…
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SYDNEY. Thurs.—Fire brigades quickly got under control early this morning a fire which broke out in a pile of sawdust at…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — The fire danger throughout Victoria is extreme and planes are continually patrolling the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—With temperatures over the century throughout the State bush fires were observed in many State forests by patrolling Liberators, while metropolitan fire brigades answered calls to 80 outbreaks…
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Yesterday afternoon Maitland Fire Brigade attended a call to a garage at 286 High-street, West Maitland, and found a quantity…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The RAAF has arranged for an air-patrol of bushfire danger areas in New South Wales RAAF area…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Shortly after 4 o'clock this morning the fashionable River[?] Cabaret at [?] Ugly’s Point was gutted by…
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