Fires Rage in W. Australia Huge Damage; Many Homeless Perth
MANY settlers in the group settlement area between Denmark and Nornalup Inlet have lost all their possessions, thousands of acres of…
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300 Persons Die in Picture Show Fire Tokio
THREE hundred persons are stated to have perished in a fire at a cinema at Antung in Manchuria. The audience was trapped in the…
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IN the most terrible theatre disaster on record at Antung (Manchuria), probably 800 lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →300 Die in Theatre Fire Mad Fight for Exits Tokio
THREE hundred persons, mostly women and children, are believed to have perished in a theatre fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Danger at Arms Factory. Wooden Buildings. SOME 20 Years Old. Lithgow
Representations are being made to the Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) for the erection at the Small Arms Factory of a three-story building, the excavation for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Theatre Fire. 658 People Killed. Entire Families Perish. 30 Houses Destroyed. TOKYO, Feb. 4
A theatre built of wood and plaster, and crammed with 1500 people, caught fire at Antung (Manchuria). Six hundred and fifty-eight people,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →1500 Suffer in Bushfires Narrow Escapes In Western State PERTH
Raging bushfires in the Denmark district, west of Albany, have caused suffering to 1500 people over an area of 45 square miles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heard News Of Fire On Car Radio Shock for Director of Firm £8000 Blaze In City Bear and Co
WHILE driving home last night with his car radio turned on, Mr. Paul Bear, a director of the firm of Bear and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Board Election
The City Council decided at yesterday's meeting to give its first preference vote at the Fire Board elections to Mr. T. D. Mutch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£8000 DAMAGE. Fire in Furniture Storerooms
Damage estimated at £8000 was caused by a fire which broke out last night in the furniture storerooms of Bear and Co., Ltd., York-street, city…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Saved Cat And Kittens In Fire
Misses Myrtle Sullivan and Ida Evans, looking down on their employer's cat and its kittens, which they carried away from smoke and water during a fire which broke out in Bear's furniture emporium in the city last night. Mr. Paul Bear, who estimates…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drama in £6000 Store Fire Girl Risks Her Life for Cats Fire-car and Engine Crash in City
When fire[?]broke out at Bear and Co.'s George Street furnishing store last night-- A girl employee rushed into the fire area and saved a cat and four kittens…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heroism of the Manager Deeds in Wonthaggi Fire Recalled
The general manager, Mr. John McLeish, who displayed great heroism and resource in the Wonthaggi tragedy has shown great courage on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theatre Fire. Deaths Now Estimated at 800. LONDON, Feb. 15
Describing the theatre fire at Antung (Mahchukuo), the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" there says: "In scorched and tattered finery, their bodies blue with cold, survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →British Ships Bombed. Spanish Plane. Fire Returned. London, Feb. 15
The British Government has been informed that a large aircraft, believed to be a Spanish insurgent Junker machine, dropped six bombs at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Aid Promised Bushfire Victims Perth
Assistance to the settlers in the Denmark district, which has been swept by bushfires, over an area of 45 square miles, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Huge Fire Loss in W.A. 100 Refugees From Group Farms PERTH
The south-western bushfires have spent most of their force, but the damage has been considerable. From Manjimup to Denmark, which…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →W.A. Bush Fires. Fund for Sufferers. PERTH
In consequence of the great loss suffered by group settlers through bush fires in the south-west, many of them British immigrants who have been struggling under pioneering…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Board Election
Three first preference votes to Alderman T. D. Mutch in the Fire Board election were cast by Lidcombe Council last night…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Fire in Undercarriage of Moving Tram
Passengers hurriedly left a tram when a Are broke out in the undercarriage while it was travelling along Crown St., near the Women's…
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