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TWO THOUSAND Northern (shangtung) troops, heeing before the advancing Cantonese, attempted lo rush the International Settlement. Hie British were forced to fire, using rilles and machine-guns on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The need for tlghten[?] [?] the Careless Use of Fire Act, for encouraging the development of bush fire brigades, and for prohibiting the use of wax matches in country centres were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Giving evidence before the Bush Fires Commission yesterday Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., said that wider breaks should be burnt along…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The over-insurance of crops is the cause of some outbreaks of bush fires, in the opinion of a Parkes farmer, Mr. John Raymond Postlethwaite, who gave evidence before the Royal Commission on Bush Fires on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Disastrous bush fires raged in the southern districts of New South Wales during the week-end. On Friday a fire started at Murder and,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 12.22 this morning a call from No. 7 fire alarm box at Factory-street was received by the Granville Fire Brigade, which smartly turned out. On arrival…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The firm of R. N. Bubb. Ltd., Wentworth Avenue remind motorists going to Canberra for the opening of Parliament that no cars will be allowed to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →How simply a bush may start start was shown at the station owned Mr. W. A. Hill, who two days before a henry wind sprang up had burned off nil his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Guildford Fire Brigade was called out at midnight on Monday. The information received was: "A fire at Old Guildford Public School." The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"WEVE wanted to see a [?]." two small boys. Alexander Butler and [?] alleged to have told the police after [?] are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At 8 o'clock last night a fire occurred in a weatherboard cottage at the rear of Mr. Hodgson's store in Green-street, Lockhart, and destroyed the buildings and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Electric gear fused on a tram travelling in a westerly direction along Oxford-street, Paddington, last night, and caused the uudercarriage to be enveloped in flames…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A fuse blew out in the fuse box of a tram in front of the Oxford-street fire station last night, and set it alight…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →As the result of a fire in Rangoon between 4000 and 5000 persons are homeless. Between 300 and 400 houses were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Why did you set the place on fire?" "We wanted to see a bon-fire." "Where did you go after you set it…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An interesting question concerning the payment of rates which had been assessed on the improved value of land on which the buildings were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In the swift British naval move to wipe out the nest of pirates infesting Bias Bay, after the looting of the steamer Hop Sang, the punitive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IN ORDER to secure the evacuation of foreigners from Nanking, where they were beset by yelling mobs intent on murder, British and American warships were compelled to bombard the burning city for 17 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A pathetic echo of the disastrous hush fires of last November is contained in a letter received by Rev. George Broadfield Webb, of Parkes,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Rev. G. Broadfield Webb, of Parkes, has been advised by the Rev. H. B. Curtis, vicar of St. Barnabas'. Little liford, England, of the distress of the widow and four young…
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