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Fires & bushfires, 1951

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Cease Fire Line in Korea May Follow 38Th Parallel

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Wednesday: Communist China's first reaction to General Ridgwoy's Idlest offer on the Korean truce plan came last night in a Peking radio broadcast asserting that the cease-fire line should follow the 38th…

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Fire at P.m.g. Pole Treatment Works

The Uralla Times · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 7

Fire charred a gantry at the P.M.G.'s pole treatment works on Saumarez reserve at the week-end…

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Seven Children Drowned in Escaping From Fire

The Inverell Times · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

BERLIN, Friday: About seven German children are believed to have been drowned when they leapt into the river Spree from a pleasure boat gutted by fire yesterday…

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Seven Children Believed Drowned in Escaping Fire

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

BERLIN, Friday.—About seven German children are believed to have been drowned when they leapt into the River Spree from a pleasure boat which was gutted by fire yesterday…

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Safe Conduct for Officers for Cease Fire Talks Tokyo

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

Communist leaders in Korea today gave an assurance of safe conduct for the United Nations truce party, which is going to Kaesong for preliminary talks there in Korean cease…

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Two Chimney Fires In Marsh Street

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 4

Armidale Fire B[?]igade extinguished two chinney fires: in Marsh Street residences yesterday…

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Full Scale Cease-fire Talks in Korea Tomorrow

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Monday.—While United Nations and Communist representative held preliminary cease fire talks in Kaesong yesterday, the relative full on the Korean battlefront ended when United Nations forces began a limited offensive on the…

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Fighting Continues in Korea During Cease-fire Talks

The Inverell Times · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Monday: While United Nations and Communist representatives held preliminary cease-fire talks at Koesong yesterday, a relative full on the Korean battlefront ended when United Notions' forces began a limited…

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Line Straightened While Cease Fire Talks Progressed Korea

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

While United Nation and Communist representatives held preliminary cease fire talks at Kaesong yesterday, the relative lull on the Korean battlefront ended when United…

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Chinmey Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 8

Armidale Fire Brigade, using a garden hose extingnished a chimney fire at the home of Mr Cyril Tracey 68…

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Buffer Zone Along Parall[?] for Cease-fire Talks

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Wednesday: A buffer zone north and south of the 38th parallel in Korea—10 kilometres each way—was proposed by the North Korean delegate at yesterday's initial cease-fire talks near Kaesong…

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Boy Dies In Sugarcane Fire

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday.—A two-year-old boy was accidentally totted to death when his father set alight to a sugarcane…

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Grass Fire in Bourke Street

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 2

Firemen were called to a grass fire in Bourke Street near the showground yester afternoon. The fire burnt through a strip…

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Fires

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 2

Charles P. Redmond was proceeded against by the local police at the Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday…

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Young Couple Die in Fire

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 1

CASINO, Monday. — Don Warner (19) and his wife, Norma Jean Warner (17), who were married in February, were…

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Negotiators Work on Agenda for Cease-fire

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 1

MUNSAN (Korea) Monday. — The United stations Communist truce negotiations, closer to harmony than ever before, worked yesterday on the slow…

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Fire Spreading in Flooded City

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday: The flood crest, 40 feer high, rolled towards St. Louis yesterday, forcing levee workers north of there to give up the fight to save West Alton-despite round-the-clock help from troops rushed…

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Councils Night to "Hire and Fire"

Guyra Argus · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

At the annual conference of the Local Government Association to be held in Lismore in October, Inverell Council…

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Fire In Kitchen Chimney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 8

A garden hose was used to [?] a fire in the kitchen chimney of Mr. A. W. Fitler's home, 32 Faulkner…

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Allied Planes Active During Korea Cease-fire Talks

The Inverell Times · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Friday: Allied planes, on the eve of to-day's vital meeting of U.N.O. and Communist truce negotiators maintained a round-the-clock pounding of Communist road and rail lines yesterday…

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