Japs Make Fire-Bombs
TOKIO (O.S.R.): Japan's Economic Journal quotes Government officials as saying that 35.000…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
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Fire Damages 3 Haystacks
Three stacks of old lucerne hay, valued at £300, were severely damaged by fire on a property at Muswellbrook…
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WASHINGTON: Early in the morning of Sept, 26, 1933, a small band of men who had followed the trail of a gangster and his wife for two months, quietly surrounded a shack in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the hideout of…
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SEOUL, Mon. (A.A.P.-Reuter): About 500 houses are reported destroyed in a fire in Chunchon, just…
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Empire Day cracker night passed off without major accidents in the Newcastle area last night. But in Sydney, five and…
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GENEVA, Tues. (A.A.P.): A secret session here yesterday, lasting four hours, failed to get agreement on s cease-fire in Indo-China. Further RED PREMIER.—Red China Premier and Foreign Minister Chou En Lai (centre) between two unidentified members of the Red China delegation to the Geneva Conference…
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A motor-car owned by S. Porter, of Mayfield, was severely damaged by fire at Ash Island yesterday. Waratah…
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HOBART: A fire at Ulverstone early today caused £70,000 damage. Accounting records of…
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There were clashes between aldermen and the Lord Mayor (Ald. Purdue) at last night's Newcastle Council meeting over the question of granting a permit to the Rugby…
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PARIS, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Henri Pichard (33) was sent to gaol for life for murdering his father-in-law, Abel Verite (73), by burning him alive in his kitchen fireplace…
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GENEVA, May 25. A.A.P.—Withdrawal of rebel Vietminh troops in northern Laos has raised hopes of an early cease-fire in Indo-China…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Cooperation between neighbouring States to prevent disastrous bush tires was urged…
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MELBOURNE: Details of a convict "lifer's" suicide after a fantastic battle with a score of warders have leaked out from behind the walls of Pentfidge Gaol. James Robert Walker…
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SYDNEY: The Board of Fire Commissioners today announced that an auxiliary bushfire squad of…
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NEW YORK, May 26 A.A.P.—Ten men had beer killed and 100 injured in a fire on board the aircraft…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Fri.—The National Opera Company of Australia is having trouble with its…
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The excitement of a fire and fire brigades was not enough to suppress the deep instinct in the hear of Boy, which says that whenever a boy sees water squirting fountain-like from a pipe he must have a drink. This lad saw the water squirting from the firehose attachment during a New castle alarm. So he had a drink…
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A motor-cycle valued at £200 was destroyed by fire in High-street. Greta, last night. The machine, which was…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—At least £100,000 damage was caused by a spectacular blaze which at one stage…
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GENEVA, Mon. (A.A.P.) — The Russian Foreign Minister (Mr. Molotov) has flown home ostensibly to consult Soviet defence chiefs about an Indo-China cease-fire, which…
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