Cinema Fire
TOKYO, Sept. 7. A.A.P.-Reuter.— Fire last night destroyed the Subarbza Theatre, one of the leading motion…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
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14 Die in Fire
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. A.A.P.—Fourteen Negroes, including seven children, died when fire swept through an old, four-story building in Chicago to-day…
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A fire broke out this morning in portion of a sulphur cargo in No. 4 hold of the overseas freighter,…
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A bushfire danger period on the N.S.W. coastal districts and mountains will probably be proclaimed tomorrow. Two days of hot weather following dry conditions have made the bushfire situation hazardous much of the…
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SYDNEY. — Dozens of boys from the Meadowbank Technical School today used buckets and tree…
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A conference to discuss the spread of fire weed, a noxious weed, in the Lower Hunter area will be held at Raymond…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8. A.A.P.—Members of the Australian tennis team in America were to-day described as "Harry Hopman's controlled tennis pawns."…
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Firemen wore respirators to combat a fire in sulphur in a hold of the motorship Myrtlebank at Lee Wharf…
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PARIS, Sept. 8. A.A.P.—Thirteen families lost their homes in a fire which gutted two blocks of flats in…
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SYDNEY.—An elderly woman was burned to death in her Alexandria home last night, and a girl, aged…
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Cook's Hill Fire Brigade yesterday was called to a rubbish fire behind the Trades Hall offices, about 100 yards…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—University students helped fight a fire in the chemical block at the University of Sydney to-night…
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Brigades attended four grass fires in Newcastle district yesterday and one on Saturday. All were put out before…
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Eleven men on Saturday and eight a week earlier cleared and burnt an area of logs. scrub, speargrass and rubbish…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday (A.D.C.).—The town of Leedsfield in California was excited at the news…
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SINGLETON, Monday.—A brooder house and 1700 chickens were destroyed in a fire at Crouch Bros.' property at…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday (A.D.C).—Great consternation was felt when two bodies were recovered…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday (A.D.C.).—When a fire in Leedsfield, California, burned a factory to the…
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SYDNEY: World famous scientist Dr. Julian Huxley and Senate leader Sen. Neil O'Sullivan were among passengers who escaped from a T.A.A. Skymaster threatened by fire at…
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SYDNEY.—A fire which occurred yesterday at Woomera Village was not on the range and had nothing to…
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