Big Fire Blots Out Sun LONDON
An eye-piece from a dumped civilian gas mask, which acted as a magnifying glass, began a fire in a 10,000 ton scrap rubber dump at the…
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Fire Brigade Fence at Wodonga
At yesterday’s Wodonga Shire Council meeting, Cr Hore reported that he and Cr Perry had made an inspection of the fence enclosing the fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News From the District BEECHWORTH Rural Fire Brigade
At the Town Hall, representatives of 14 rural fire brigades in the 24in. region, met to elect a regional council. The meeting was convened by Mr I…
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An old weatherboard shed at the rear of Mr W. Small’s tailor shop in Dean st, was destroyed by fir last evening. Firemen fought the blaze…
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The British steamer Malayan Prince, which is bound for Haifa from Liverpool, caught fire at Alexandria Harbor on Sunday morning while being…
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A defect the wiring of a motor truck belonging to Mr. Jack Dunn Senr., of Short street caused a fire on Friday [?]vening last shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sequel To Fire At Culcairn Station a Junior Porter Sent for Trial Also Gets Two Months On Embezzlement Charge
Defalcations of £132 were mentioned and railway ledgers with charred ends and half-burnt scraps of newspapers and railway way-bills were produced in the Coroner’s Court at Culcairn yesterday when a young railway employe, Raymond Edward Hughes, aged 19 was sent…
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Acting as a burning glass, the eyepiece of a dumped civilian gas mask fired 15,000 tons of scrap rubber in a Government depot at Mitcham, S.W., and gave London its biggest blaze since the blitz days. It took 45 pumps manned by 450 firemen more than four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russians Fire On Swedish Relief Party LONDON
Russian troops last night fired on a Swedish relief agency party and killed a driver and wounded Torsten Arnaus, chief of the agency’s mission in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Items of News Bathheater Starts Roof Blaze
Spark from a chip heater lit to prepare a bath set alight the shingled [?] of the bathroom at the home of Mr and Mrs W. R. Forrest,…
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Two fires last week-end causing £2500 damage were lit by three children, aged five, six and seven years. Polite making inquiries said today…
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At the last meeting of Culcairn Shire Council the Board of Fire Commissioners said the question of whether a fire district under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£50,000 Fire in Sydney Sydney
Damage estimated at £50,000 was [?] by a fire which severely [?] two buildings in George st. [?] the Harbor tonight…
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A pile of rubbish and grass in vacant allotment in Parkinson st caught alight early last night and the Albury Fire Brigade was called. No…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Phone Services Restored Fire In Postal Buildings SYDNEY
Telephone trunk line services disrupted by the fire in a Postal Department building in George street last night were restored today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Sent Up Large Column of Smoke. Melbourne
When a fire broke out this morning at a bitumen plant at Port Melbourne, more than 8000 gallons of bitumen emulsion and 10 tons of bitumen burned fiercely, sending a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sequel to Collision and Fire Man Fined in Albury Court
Sequel to a collision on the Hume highway near Table Top on April 2, when a semi-trailer and its 10-ton load of rope were destroyed by fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exit From City of Stabbings, Bombings and Fires LONDON
Processions of carts laden with household possessions left the walled city of Lahore on Tuesday as for the [?] successive day stabbing, bombing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dutch Fire on Australian Plane? Singapore
Dutch authorities at Bankfai Island last week grounded an Australian Avro-Anson belonging to Inter-Continental Airways of London and Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →17 Die in Fire Some Leapt to Their Death London
Seventeen persons are known to be dead while at least 40 were injured as the result of a fire which broke out among films in the…
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