Boy Wanted Fire So Started One
LONDON.—A ten-year-old schoolboy admitted at Brentford Juvenile Court that he set fire to a 15-ton stack of cork,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Boy Taught To Play With Fire
LONDON, Sat.—A 10-year-old boy, who was taught to play with fire by a woman psychiatrist, appeared at…
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LONDON. — a cigarette-end dropped near cotton waste is thought to have started the fire at the Weedon (Northants)…
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SEOUL, November 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Passage in the South Korean Parliament of a bill calling upon the Rhee Cabinet to resign…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire gutted a tannery at Botany to-night and caused damage estimated at £20,000…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.). —Secret Service officers were called in by the War Office last night after a…
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SYDNEY. — Full assistance will be given to the veneer mill at Wauchope which was severely damaged by fire last…
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LONDON, Nov. 6. A.A.P.—Officers of M.1.5 were called in by the War Office last night after a preliminary inquiry had pointed…
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Hamilton Central School P. and C. Association last night decided to make further representations to the Minister for…
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LONDON: Before rescuers could reach Mrs. Kathleen McCormick, aged 57, trapped at 3 a.m. in her blazing bed-sitting…
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LONDON: People living near a factory in Drove Rd., Old Portslade, near Brighton, were evacuated when fire broke out…
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Britain's first experiment in making gas by setting fire to a coal seam has been started—at Newman Spinney, Derbyshire. First fire-bombs were set off on May 22—but soon went out…
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Using knapsack pumps, Cardiff fire brigade quickly put out a bush fire which broke out yesterday afternoon between Thomas and Mary…
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Mrs. D. Clayden used a garden hose to check a fire at her Lorn home yesterday till Maitland Fire Brigade, under Sub-station Officer…
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SYDNEY: A woman and her six children fled in terror when a factory fire spread to their home in Wellington-st., Chippendale, today. The fire gutted the…
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LEDUC (Alberta). Nov. 12. A.A.P.—Seven persons were killed, 16 injured and two are missing, following an explosion yesterday,…
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SYDNEY.—Police believe that intruders who broke into Bondi Beach Public School early yesterday and set fire to…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A boy was fatally burnt in a tent fire at Miranda last night. The boy's uncle rescued two other children from the blazing…
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LOS ANGELES, Sun. (A.A.P.)—A fire which destroyed the top floor of film actor Sabu's mansion was "definitely a case…
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A building and its contents, owned by Martin Ainsley, of North Shore, Port Macquarie, were damaged by fire on Saturday morning…
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