Fires Raging As Arabs Fight Jews
JERUSALEM, Friday (AAP).--Fires were dazing last night in Salama (between Jaffa and Tel Aviv), where an Arab-Jew battle was reported raging…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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Melbourne's Big Fire; [?]Mil. Damage
MELBOURNE, Friday: The biggest Melbourne fire for years which broke out today at the Angliss and Co. Ptd. Ltd. skin store, Footscray, is not expected to be put out until Sunday…
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LONDON, Friday: Reuter's Jerusalem representative says: There have been renewed Arab-Jewish clashes on the Salama road, between Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The Daily Mail's, Jerusalem says: Eleven fires are…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--A fire which raged for over two hours before it was quelled, only to break out later and burn for another hour…
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The Deputy District Coroner (Mr. A V. E. Overall) will hold an inquest at Coraki Police Court on Tuesday, August 19. at 9.30 a.m…
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The whole of the large wooden business and residential block on the northern side of McLean…
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CORAKI, Tuesday.--A verdict that the fire which caused the death of four members of a family at Coraki on August 2 was accidental was returned by the Deputy District Coroner (Mr. A. V. E. Overall) at Coraki…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Detectives fired on two suspects during a chase through thick country at Herne Bay today…
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GRAFTON, Monday: Twenty thousand bales of megass, a sugar cane bi-product, were destroyed by a fire in a shed near the C.S.R. Company's Harwood mill this afternoon…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday--After pouring water on the burning megass in the destroyed Harwood Mill storage shed throughout the night…
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FORT ALBERNI (British Columbia) Tuesday (AAP).--A fire swept the waterfront last night and destroyed the 1,500,000 dollar Government…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). -- For the second time, the United Nations Security Council yesterday called on the Dutch and Indonesians to cease fighting…
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Shortly after 9 am yesterday b fire was discovered in the oil room in the bulk store of Messrs Morleys Pty. Ltd., of Tweed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Orgy of Blood & Fire in India: Women Hacked
NEW DELHI, Wednesday (AAP). -- In an orgy of blood and fire, the peoples of the divided Punjab are settling the problem which the Boundary Commission left unsolved -- separation of the Moslems from the Sikhs and Hindus…
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SYDNEY, Friday: An 84-year-old blind women was rescued from a fire which destroyed an eight-roomed weatherboard house at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Slaughter and Fire in West Punjab 800 Killed in Town in 24 Hours
LISHORE, Friday: An orgy of killing and burning suddenly began on Monday at Shaikpura, 26 miles west of Lahore. Shaikpura, with a population of 20,000-half Moslem, half Sikh and Hindu—had been regarded as one of the quietest spots in West Punjab…
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A meeting at Chillihgham recently formed a bushfire brigade to coyer the North Arm. Mr O. Gawler was elected area captain…
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The secretary of the Tweed District Bushfires Advisory Committee (Mr J. D. Kay) said last night that the organisation of bushfire brigades in the various zones of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Destroy Princess's Suite
LONDON, Sunday: suite which Princess Elbeth would have occupied at Sunninghill was gutted…
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PARIS, Sunday: Fire and panic killed 89 people and injured another 60 at a Paris suburban theatre last night. Flames sprang up in the…
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