4 Killed, 18 Injured In Express Fire
MADRID, Monday (AAP).-- Four persons were killed and 18 injured in a fire on the Gijon -Madrid Express at Pajares yesterday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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38th Parallel, Likely Chinese Basis for Korean Cease Fire
LAKE SUCCESS, Monday (AAP).-- Sources close to the Soviet Union revealed yesterday that the Chinese People's Republic might be prepared to settle the Korean conflict with a cease fire line established on the 38th Parallel, in addition to other terms, says Reuter's correspondent…
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CASINO, Tuesday. -- An 80-year-old Casino woman, Mrs. E. Hayden,, extinguished a blazing mattress which threatened to set fire to her home. Mrs. Hayden lives alone in Bent…
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The condition of Casino octogenarian, Mrs. E. Hayden, was last night reported to be satisfactory. Mrs. Hayden was admitted to the…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).--Trapped by flames, a 15 year old girl calmly knotted blankets and lowered her younger brother and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A fire extensively damaged an estimated 3000 bales of cotton, worth about £100,000, at the Sydney Showground…
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SYDNEY, Friday.-- Police believe the cause of the fire which yesterday gutted a lacquer factory in St. Peters was spontaneous…
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Representatives of Middle Eastern and Asiatic nations last night decided to sponsor a draft resolution for an immediate cease fire in…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--The whole of N.S.W., with the exception of the coastal areas from Nambucca Shire to the Queensland Border,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Gales, bush fires, and heat waves) swept N.S.W. today, and in Sydney abnormally high Aides flooded the lower reaches of the Botanical Gardens…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday (AAP).--Britain and the United States yesterday told the United Nations Political Committee that they supported the proposal of the 13 Asian and Middle East countries for a cease…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.-- Landholders in the far west of N.S.W. are making desperate preparations to fight bush fires, which have penetrated the border from South Australia at several points…
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Although temperatures approached the century mark, two fires which broke out in Lismore yesterday afternoon were not…
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CASINO, Sunday. -- Mrs. Ellen Hayden, 80-year-old Casino woman, who was admitted to the Memorial Hospital 10 days ago, suffering from…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday. -- A woman and two young children had a narrow escape from suffocation when a fire started in their bed in…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Troops and volunteers fought grass fires throughout the State, as tempera- tares rose above the century and…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). -- A nun roused 50 sleeping children and led them to safety along smoke filled corridors, when a fire broke…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday (AAP). -- The United Nations cease fire committee on Korea has offered to meet the Chinese Communist authorities in New York or "elsewhere". Lester Pearson, Canadian member of the three-man group,…
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The awe inspiring scene as a well blazed into flames at Cortemaggiore, in Val Padana, the centre of the Italian mineral oil zone, lighting up the whole of the countryside. It is thought that the fire was caused by sparks from stones…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). -- Communist China's envoy, Wu Hsin Chuan, yesterday criticised the United…
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