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Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Reichstag Fire Leipzig Trial Five Men Charged Accused Man's Mirth LEIPZIG

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1933 · page 2

The Reichstag fire trial was opened in the Supreme Court here to-day. All the five accused were charged with high treason for which the penalty is…

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Quebec Cathedral Destroyed by Fire Mysterious Outbreaks Quebec

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 September 1933 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The Catholic Cathedral at Valley field, destroyed by fire early to-day was the sixth Catholic church in the Province to so suffer in recent years…

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Reichstag Fire Trial at Leipzig Alleged Confession High Handed German Action LEIPZIG

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 September 1933 · page 2

Everyone attending the Reichstag fire trial to-day was again closely searched in the presence of soldiers, and the state of nerves thus induced…

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Reichstag Fire Trial Leipzig

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 September 1933 · page 1

Features of the Reichstag fire trial were the elimination of important defence privileges of Van Der Lubbe because he said too little, and of…

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Reichstac Fire Lubbe's Admissions at Leipziq Trial Attempt to Fire Imperial Palace LEIPZIG

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 1

Features of the Reichstag fire trial to-day were the elimination of important defence privileges of Van der Lubbe because he said too little and of…

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Reichstag Fire Prisoner's Outburst Five Months in Chains Leipzig

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 1

Tuesday's session of the trial of the five accused in the Reinstag fire trial closed with another violent clash between Dimitroff and the court, end…

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Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 2 October 1933 · page 2

With rain Coming down yesterday morning it was a shock to hear the sound of the fire bell. The alarm was for a fire in the roof of Mr. Lindsay's…

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Reichstag Fire Accused Man's Confession Admits Lighting Fire London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 October 1933 · page 2

During the Reichstag fire trial at Leipzig to-day the President (Dr. Bunger) sprang a surprise by announcing that Van der Lubbe, one of the…

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The Bush Fire Case

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 2

Bidgeemia residents are a little excited by the fact that quite a number of them have been summoned as witnesses in the case of…

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Hollywood Holocaust Thirty-five Incinerated in Forest Fire Workers Encircled by Flames Los Angeles

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 8

Thirty-five men wire burnt to death late to-day in the hills above Hollywood when a fire started sudde[?] in the tinder-like underbrush, apparently…

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Reichstag Fire Trial Resumed Van Der Lubbe's Statement Leipzig

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 1

The Reichstag fire trial vag resumed to-day. Van der Lubbe, sullen and muttering his replies, insisted that he alone set fire to the Reichstag. He…

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Hollywood Fire 36 Bodies Recovered 20 More Believed Dead Los Angeles

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 1

Thirty-six bodies, charred and burned in yesterday bush fire in the hills above Hollywood, have been recovered. It is believed that at least 20 more…

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Gaol Brawl Warder Fires Shot

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 7

When two criminals attacked another prisoner in Bathurst gaol the assault was witnessed by a warder in one of the watch towers. He fired…

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Reichstag Fire Forgler's Evidence Heard News in Cafe Leipzig

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 1

Giving evidence at the Reichstag fire inquiry, in which he is one of the accused, Ernst Torgler declared that the first he knew of the fire was when…

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Reichstag Fire Cynical Dimitroff London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 2

After further conflicts with the judges, Dimitroff was expelled from the court in the Reichstag fire trial at Leipzig…

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Wild Scenes At An Irish Convention Attack on General O'duffy Hit on Head With Hammer Angry Crowds at Tralee Police Barracks Under Machine Gun Fire LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 1

A message from Dublin states that wild scenes marked the convention at Tralee, County Kerry, of the recently formed Ireland Party. The scenes were such as to necessitate the summoning of the military…

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Wagga Circuit Court. the Urangeline Bush Fire Case. First Day's Hearing

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 2

On Tuesday morning, at the Wagga Wagga Court House, the hearing was commenced before Justice E. Milner Stephen, of the suit…

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Urangeline Bush Fire Farmers Claims Damages From Neighbor

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 3

Frederick John Webber, of Urangeline, proceeded against Henry Hazelwood, also of Urangeline, for damages arising out of a bush fire which…

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Guest House Blaze Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 7

Nearly £3000 worth of damage was caused when an eight roomed guest house owned by Mr. Carl Hertel, of Ulladulla was burned to the ground…

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