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Fires & bushfires, 1937

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Fire at Sea Flames Conquered SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 25 October 1937 · page 1

A fire broke out lost night on the Interstate liner, Arungai, 105 miles north of Sydney, while on a voyage from Cairns to Port Jackson…

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Fire on Ship Extinguished

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 26 October 1937 · page 2

Quick work by a crew prevented the spread of a fire on the Interstate liner "Orungal" last night. The fire broke out among the cargo, but the…

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Fire on Liner on Way to Sydney Much Damage to Cargo Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 October 1937 · page 1

A fire broke out last night aboard the interstate liner Orungal, 105 miles north of Sydney, while on a voyage from Cairns to Sydney. Smoke was noticed…

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Coal Mine Fire Burning for Half Century

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 28 October 1937 · page 4

The United States Government has just begun a task which mutt be one of the strangest an Administration, has ever uuderaken. It is spending…

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Japanese are Shooting Down, and Bayoneting Defenceless Chinese! Fires Are Still Burning in Chapei London

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 October 1937 · page 1

Huge fires are still burning in Chapei, and firemen are doing their utmost to prevent the flames from spreading to the International Settlement; but the Japanese are ruthlessly setting alight to every building suspected of harboring Chinese snipers…

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£26,000 Fire at Cockatoo Dockyard Coroner's Open Finding Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 October 1937 · page 2

Stating that there did not appear to be any suggestion that the fire had been caused maliciously, the City Coroner (Mr. Oram) returned an open…

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Palestine Trouble Arabs Fire on Convoy Bomb Explodes in Synagogue Jerusalem

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 October 1937 · page 3

A Jewish lorry driver was shot dead and an escorting Arab constable seriously wounded when a convoy of the Palestine Potash Company from the…

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Forest Fire Quelled Jerusalem

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 4

The fire in the Balfour pine forests was extinguished after three hours' combat, but not before thousands of trees had been destroyed…

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Albury Fire Racehorses in Danger

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 November 1937 · page 3

Swift action by the owner, with a number of helpers, saved three valuable racehorses from destruction when a fire broke out in the Railway…

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Raceshorses Escape Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 November 1937 · page 11

Three racehorses, Cinzano, Jeeves, and Walace Boy, were saved from destruction by fire when the Railway Hotel stables at Albury were…

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French Destroyer Fires at Submarine Valencia

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1937 · page 8

A French destroyer, escorting the French steamer Imerethie, to-day fired several times at a submarine 20 miles off the coast…

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Big Fire at Gympie Brisbane

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 November 1937 · page 1

Damage estimated at £40,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the departmental store of Cullinane, Ltd., Gymple…

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£40,000 Fire at Gympie Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 November 1937 · page 4

Damage estimated at £40,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the departmental store of Cu[?]nane Ltd, Gympie, yesterday…

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Big Fire in Darwin on Guy Fawkes Day Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 November 1937 · page 1

Guy Fawkes Day celebrations concluded in Darwin at 1 a.m. to-day, when the second largest Administration building was destroyed by fire. Damage is…

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"Heaven's on Fire!" New York

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 1

Father Devine's "supersupe heaven" was burned to the ground to-day, while husky negro angels chanted, "Heaven's on fire, let her burn," and…

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Riot in South Africa Police Fire on Natives Capetown

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 4
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A colored crowd of several hundred beselged four policemen who were searching a cottage at Mossel Bay for a prohibited narcotic herb. The crowd…

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Fire at Yass Yass

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 November 1937 · page 4

The back rooms of premises, occupied by a grocer and radio dealer were destroyed, together with twelve radio sets, during a fire here…

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House Destroyed by Fire Cat Awakens Family Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1937 · page 1

The mewing of a cat awakened the family of J. Cavanagh, near Guyra, early this morning and they found the house on fire. The cat had been…

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Fire on Reserve

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1937 · page 2

Experimenting with fire as a means of destroying the grasshoppers, workers on the Brookong Reserve were disappointed that a mile…

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