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Fires & bushfires, 1951

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Cease-fire Talks at Kaesong Harmonious Full-scale Discussion Begins To-morrow

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Sun.: United Nations and Communist representatives will begin full-scale talks on Tuesday on a cease-fire in Korea. Agreement to hold the talks was reached today at a preliminary…

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Prompt action saves wharf in blaze

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 11

DARWIN, Mon.: Prompt action by a civil aviation official early today saved Darwin’s main wharf from almost certain destruction…

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Fire Cost £2 Million

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 4

NEWARK (New Jersey), Mon.: Officials of the Warren Petroleum Sales Corporation said today that they had no idea what caused…

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Cease-Fire Talks With Reds Are “Satisfactory”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 1

SEOUL, Tues. (A.A.P.-Reuter): The U.N. ceasefire delegates returned to Munsan at 6.57 p.m. local time today. Vice-Admiral Joy refused to comment on the talks, but Major-Genera Craigie said they…

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Timber Mill Destroyed by Fire

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 12 July 1951 · page 2

Fire destroyed all the machinery at Miss J. Hale’s timber mill at Milawa, 10 miles from Wangaratta, early on Tuesday morning…

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Swede may supervise ceose-fire

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thurs.: The United Nations might appoint a widely known neutral, possibly from Sweden, as their…

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Raging Oil Fires Add to U.s. Flood Terror

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sun: New devastation threatens the twin cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, following the collapse of a dyke on the bank of the Missouri River. The collapse of the dyke released torrents of muddy water into the…

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Wahgunyah Fire Brigade to Have New Fire Station

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 1

At a meeting of the Wahgunyah Fire Brigade held at the School of Arts last Thursday night it was decided to call tenders for a new fire…

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Late News Flash P.O. loses heavily in fire

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 20

SYDNEY, Tues.: Twenty Postal Department lorries were destroyed and thousands of pounds’ worth of valuable machine tools were…

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Oil Fire Still Burns

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 9

KANSAS CITY, Wed.: The five-day-old oil fire in this flooded city which has already burned millions of gallons of oil and…

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Fire Blacks out 300 telephones

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 12

Over 200 telephones were temporarily put out of action yesterday afternoon when a [?] broke out at Albury…

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Boy Blamed for School Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 6

GLEN INNES, Sun.: Police are searching for the firebug who caused damages estimated at £1000 to the Glen Innes…

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Seven die in flats fire

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 8

SAN FRANCISCO, Mon.: Seven people died in a fire which destroyed a block of flats here today…

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£10,000 fire damage to factory

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: Fire destroyed £10,000 worth of flock, electrical equipment and valuable machinery at a flock factory in Tempe…

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Cease-fire Talks “Back on Track”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 3

SEOUL, Wed. (AAP-Reuter): Korean ceasefire fire talks at Kaesong are “back on the track” according to United Press correspondents. It is virtually certain the Communists…

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Unattended Fire

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

There was a most unusual case at the Coolamon Court of Petty Sessions last week, when Noel Charles Griffiths was charged…

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Good Save by Helpers in Tent Fire

The Observer · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

On Wednesday afternoon last a fire, which might have had more serious consequences, occurred in the Henty railway yard, when one of the tents…

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Alleged fire confession by student

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 8

SAN FRANCISCO, Fri.: Police allege that Kenneth Skinner, 17 year-old high school student, has confessed to starting a fire in a…

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Coal Stack Fire Inquiry Is Demanded

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 18

SYDNEY, Fri.: A public inquiry into the firing of a 90,000 tons stack of coal at Ravensworth between Singleton and…

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“S.E. Asian countries fear Korean cease-fire”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 July 1951 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Sun.: South-East Asian countries feared that a cease-fire in Korea might lead to Communist aggression…

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