Russians "Can Fire A-Bombs To U.S.A." "Herald" Service
NEW YORK March 6.—The Russians have developed a rocket missile capable of delivering an atomic bomb from a base on the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Fire in Flats Kills Seven
OTTAWA, Wed. (A.A.P.).— Seven persons were burned to death in a fire which gutted a block of flats in Ocean Falls…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A woman appeared in Parramatta Court to-day in a borrowed dress because her husband burnt her clothes when…
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Station-Officer A. McLean, who has been in charge of Maitland Fire District for four and a half years, has been…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).—A Foreign office spokesman said that British troops supervising dismantling of the Hermann…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →14 Killed In Fire At Army Prison
ALBUQUERQUE (New Mexico), March 9. A.A.P.—An explosion and fire killed 14 of 16 prisoners who were trapped last night in…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Two thousand people blocked traffic as flames gutted a hay and grain store in Swan-street, Richmond, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£40,000 Fire in Church
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—People knelt in the street to pray yesterday as priests helped firemen to quell a blaze in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A large part of St. Columb's Church of England, Dickson-street, Newtown, was destroyed by fire to…
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MELBOURNE: A 14-year-old firebug has told the police that he started fires just for the fun and excitement. The police allege that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bushfire Smoke Turned Noon Into Midnight 50 Miles At Sea
Noon became midnight yesterday as the Orion, 50 miles off Albany, ran into a dense smoke screen from Western Australian bushfires. "I have seen nothing like it" in 27 years at sea." said Capt…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →£½M. Damage in U.s. Warehouse Fire
NORTH KANSAS CITY (Missouri), March 16. A.A.P.—All available brigades, including five fire floats, worked for nearly eight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Blaze In Newcastle; £75,000 Loss
Fire early this morning swept through three floors of a four-storey brick building at the corner of Hunter and Newcomen-sts., Newcastle, gutting the top floor and part of the second and doing damage estimated by…
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NEW YORK, March 17. A.A.P.—Twelve persons—six prisoners in gaol and six members of one family in their home—lost their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire in Hunter St
SCENE OF EARLY-MORNING FIRE at the corner of Hunter and Newcomen Sts., when damage estimated at £75,000 was done to shops and offices. Valuable furs and frocks were destroyed when two top floors of the four-storeyed building were burnt out. Heat from the flames cracked the back of the building…
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TOKYO, March 19. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Russian patrol boats machine-gunned a Japanese fishing fleet, seizing two boats, off Hokkaido,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Arson squad detectives were called in late this afternoon to investigate a fire which caused more than £5000…
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STATESBORO (Georgia), Mar. 19. A.A.P.—A terrific explosion followed by a raging fire virtually wiped out a block of business…
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Fire brigade officers yesterday estimated fire and water damage to a brick building at the corner of Newcomen and Hunter Streets, and…
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Despite the heavy loss suffered by the Margo Salon in Saturday's fire, the mannequin show at City Hall tomorrow…
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