Reds Responsible for Factory Fire
SINGAPORE, Thursday (AAPReuter).—The Malayan Communist Party admitted in secretly circulated pamphlets that it was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Arson Suspected In Casino Fire
CASINO, Tuesday.— Police are investigating the possibility of arson following a fire which broke out in an unoccupied dwelling in…
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QUEBEC, Wednesday (AAP). —Three bodies recovered yesterday from the charred wreck of the cruise ship, Quebec, which caught…
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HONG KONG, Thursday (AAP-Reuter).—Batteries on three Chinese Communist islands near Hong Kong today fired on the British destroyer,…
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CORAKI, Monday.—Fires were seen today on river flats in three centres of t[?] Mid-Richmond district where little more than two…
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QUEBEC, Friday (AAP).—The death toll in the fire which destroyed the cruise liner Quebec, in the St. Lawrence River, remains…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Joan Hindle, 15, rescued a 17 months old baby from a blazing, two-roomed house at Guildford late yesterday, two…
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Firemen had to force a door to fight a fire which severely d[?]amaged the contents cf a dentist's work-room in Molesworth Street…
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KYOGLE, Sunday.—An aboriginal woman residing at Stoney Gulley suffered severe burns when her hair caught alight off a naked kerosene…
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PERTH, Wednesday.—According to a statement made by the only passenger who lived for three days after the crash of the A.N.A. Skymaster—Amana—on June 26, there was no fire in the plane before the crash…
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KYOGLE, Sunday—Jack Hogg, a farmer, of New Park, near Kyogle, effected a good save when his dairy buildings caught fire…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday.—A five-roomed dwelling was burnt to the ground and another house 15 feet away seriously threatened…
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An empty weatherboard shed at the rear of J. R. Allen and Co's. chemist shop in Molesworth Street, Lismore, was severely damaged by…
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CASINO, Monday. -- A railway employee, his wife and two small children are homeless following a fire which swept through their…
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A small scrub fire in the Old Ballina Cutting early last night was extinguished by Lismore firemen with knapsack pumps and beaters…
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TOKIO, Sunday (AAP-Reuter). -- American petrol bombs and attacking Communists yesterday killed or wounded oyer 150 men of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on a hill five miles west of the Naktong River…
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KATOOMBA, Sunday.--More than 100 firefighters battled for over 2½ hours this afternoon to save 12 homes from destruction when a bushfire swept through a gully to within 100 yards of Mount Hay road, North Leura…
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TENTERFIELD, Monday.-- "By adopting the president's report in its entirety we would only be heaping coals of fire on our own…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).--A fire roaring through a section of the Cresswell Colliery (Derbyshire) today killed 80 miners. Following rescue attempts lasting, over seven hours, the blazing pit was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A huge fire which broke out in a stack of baled cotton on a wharf at Glebe Island early tonight:…
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