Second Cease-fire Appeal by Un
LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday (AAP). -- The United Nations has sent a second cease fire appeal to Chinese Communists…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
170 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 9
Appeal to Protect Forests From Fire
SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The Forestry Commission, as a supplement to its own extentive fire prevention and fire-control precautions, makes…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Friday (AAP). -- The cease-fire committee has informed Peking that it will wait until next week before…
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SYDNEY, Monday. -- An 85-year-old man was severely burned when fire extensively damaged three weatherboard cottages in Gertrude…
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SYDNEY, Monday. -- Firemen tonight found the charred body of a man on the second floor of a fire-gutted block of shops and offices in George Street, City. The body has not been identified. Late tonight firemen were…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Looters smashed shop windows and grabbed goods from them as fire was destroying Prahran Markets and 12…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Hundreds of volunteer and regular firemen fought a desperate two-hour battle to save the Broadmeadows…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- The unidentifiable, burned body of a man found after firemen had subdued flames in a George Street building…
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BALLINA, Wednesday. -- Ballina Fire Brigade, under Captain George Tranter, battled in fierce heat and smoke for six hours…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. -- The biggest and most serious fire in Canberra's history early this morning caused damage estimated at…
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