Fire Disturbs Test Listners
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Fifteen persons in a guest house at Hawksbum to-night were listening to the Test match broadcast when a fire…
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Fire in City Danger Zone
These two pictures show graphically how last night Sydney firemen successfully isolated a fire in one the city's danger spots -- a block of buildings surrounded by King, Pitt, Rowe and Castlereagh-streets. Attacking the fire from three sides, they kept it confined to the one building, which was destroyed. The extent of the danger spot, crammed with buildings, can be seen in the top picture. Lower one shows how the blaze was isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Estonians Fire on Soviet Plane
WARSAW, Friday.--Frontier guards of Estonia, the most northerly of the Baltic States, fired on a foreign bombing plane which flew from Russia over the town of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in City. Dancer Area. Brigades' Difficult Task
Just as the theatre crowds were streaming home last night, a fire broke out in what is regarded as one of the city's danger spots—a block of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire Unnoticed. Boarders Intent on Broadcast. MELBOURNE
Sixteen men and women in a 10roomed guest house in Hawkesburn were listening so intently to a broadcast description of the test match early this…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →29 Burned in U.s.a. Hotel Fire
TWENTY- NINE DIED in this inferno. Twenty more were injured when the magnificent…
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PORT KEMBLA, Sunday.--Sylvia Armfield, 5, was seriously burned when she tripped and felt into a fire outside her parent's camp at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Invalid Rescued In Fire MELBOURNE
AN invalid woman was in danger of being crushed to death in her cottage by a huge brick wall at Burnley…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arrests Follow School Fire. Ungarie
Following a fire at Beleveolan school, near Tullibigeal, four young men have been arrested, and remanded until June 14, on a charge of having broken and entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazi Press Fanning Czech Fire London
VIOLENT attacks upon the Czech Government were printed in officially-inspired Germans newspapers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oh, Fahreneit With The Fire-Brigade! KOSCIUSKO
WHEN I was small boy thought the juggler who kept three billiard balls and two soda syphons in the air all at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crowd Hosed. Factory Fire in Melbourne. Loss of £28,000 Caused. Melbourne
After burning undetected for three hours,, a fire which had developed to uncontrollable proportions destroyed two large factories in Stawell Street,…
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HUNDREDS watched a man dive into the Harbor and another clamber into a dinghy last night from a…
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To "Prophet" and "Knowledge": If you each correctly interpreted your Bible you would find that there will be no second flood, nor will the earth be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Burned to Death Old Woman In House Fire MELBOURNE
Trapped in a room in a blazing weatherboard cottage in Cardigan-street, Carlton, early to-day, Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia-u.s. Pact Delay Washington Talks Hang Fire LONDON
The trade negotiations between Australia and the United States are not likely to begin before the fate of the Anglo-American pact, the chances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two in Danger on Burning Boat Pilot Steamer, Fire Float to Rescue in Harbor Drama
TWO men had narrow escapes last night when the 32-foot cabin cruiser, Suki, burst into flames near Clifton Gardens. Small launches going down the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →N.S.W's. Great Union Victory Improved Display Against Qld. More Fire In Forwards: Backs Combine Well
IN a game of true representative standard, New South Wales defeated Queensland at Rugby Union by 20-12, at North Sydney Oval yesterday. It was marked by cleverly…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Keeping He Home Fires Burning
But wheat of those who have been left behind? Peggy Dunbar—she of the ready laugh and charming voice and Microphone personality—has been…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →'Phone Booth Fire
After tearing the telephone directory in halves, vandals, by short-circuiting wires, set fire to a 'phone booth outside Guildford Post Office on Monday night…
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