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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1917

1,358 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 68

Prisoners Under Fire. Frenchman Beaches Front Trenches and Escapes

Evening News · Wednesday 23 May 1917 · page 1

Finishing up a recent trench raid to the German front line, the Australians heard a wounded German shouting to them in broken English from the bottom of a shell hole…

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Pola Arsenal Bombed. Fire Burns for Two Days. London, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 23 May 1917 · page 1

A report frost Rome tells of good work by Italian airmen. A squadron of Italian aeroplanes bombed the arsenal at Pola. A great…

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At the Sydney Stadium. Tommy Ryan's Great Win. Drags Seemingly Hopeless Fight Out of the Fire

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 23 May 1917 · page 6

The fact that owing to an injury to his shoulded Jack Cole was unable to [?] appointment with Fritz [?]…

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Big Fire in Japan Vancouver

The Sun · Thursday 24 May 1917 · page 1

A message from Tokio says that all the public buildings and 3500 houses were burnt at Yonezawa (north of Tokio)…

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Big Fire. Thousand Houses Burnt. Hungarians' Plight. Amsterdam, Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 24 May 1917 · page 4

Considerable damage has been done by fire at Gyongy[?], a town in Hungary. Advices received from Buda Pest state that a thousand houses have been burnt, and that…

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Mice Cause Fires

The Land · Friday 25 May 1917 · page 11

A fire occurred near Wagga, resulting in the total destruction of Woodlands homestead. Mrs. Geo. Bardwell and daughters were alone in the house, when…

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Conflacrations. a Midnight Blaze at [?]mount

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 May 1917 · page 4

A fire occurred on Sunday night last at Green-mount (Q), in the [?], premises of Messrs. Brodle and Co. The flames quickly enveloped the building, and although the residents formed a…

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Hungarian Town on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 May 1917 · page 7
Also in The Daily Telegraph

According to a message from Amsterdam, the whole of the town of Gyoengyoes, a town in Hungary, was ablaze within two hours, and 1000 houses, two churches, and…

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Disastrous Fire at Braidwood

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 May 1917 · page 7

At Mr. James Sibben's farm, Clyde Road, Braidwood. 160 tons of hay values at £650, together with a shed and implements valued at £220, was…

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Fire in Hungary. London, May 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 May 1917 · page 8

Advices from Budapest state that 1000 houses have been burnt in Gyoengyoes (a town of 16,000, in Hungary), and 250 are still burning. Seven fatalities occurred. Several…

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Dastardly Huns Anzacs III-treated Worked Within Shell Fire Starved Prisoners Story

The Sun · Friday 25 May 1917 · page 1

That Germany is shockingly treating Australians who fall into their hands is proved by the story of two men who recently escaped from…

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Post Office Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 May 1917 · page 14

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--A fire broke out last night in a room used for storing old records at the Newcastle post office. It originated in bale of string, and it is thought that a…

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Fire in Bedroom

Nepean Times · Saturday 26 May 1917 · page 3

At about 9 o'clock on Tuesday night last a fire broke out in one of the back bedrooms at the premises of Mr Alex Frew's, tailor, High Street…

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Safe-breakers Busy Explosion Causes Fire Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 26 May 1917 · page 2

Safe-breakers were busy in the city and suburbs last night. Four cases were reported to the police this morning. At the grocer's shop of J. Crooks, Commercial road, Prah-…

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Piano and Whiz-Bang Orchestra. Story of Belgian Girl Who Played "The Washington Post" Under Fire

The World's News · Saturday 26 May 1917 · page 6

THE cottage of Monsieur Vermersch, schoolmaster of Woesten parish, is on the Ypres-Nieuport highway, about five miles to the north-west of Ypres and a quarter…

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Fires in Germany London

The Sun · Sunday 27 May 1917 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that great fires continue in Germany. The latest outbreak includes the gutting of a goods station at Berlin, wherein tanks…

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Fire That Would Not Die Melbourne

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 May 1917 · page 2

A fire at Geelong has established a record for duration. On Easter Monday night the Victorian Forage Pressing Co.'s stores in Corio-street, containing 1000 tons of compressed…

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Safe-breakers Busy Explosion Causes Fire Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 27 May 1917 · page 9

Safe-breakers were busy in the city and suburbs last night. Four cases were reported to the police this morning. At the grocer's shop of J. Crooks, Commercial-road,…

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America's War Fleet Total Tonnage of 750,000 Big Gun Fire of 167 Tons

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 May 1917 · page 22

Already the news has been cabled through to us of the active participation in the naval war by our latest ally, America. Destroyers from the latter country are even now assisting in the operations against the German fleet, and daily the great transatlantic liners are being escorted safely to British ports by…

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