Petrol Fire After Smash
A fire broke out to-day when, after two cars had collided at the corner of Parramatta-road and Johnstone-street, Annandale. two petrol…
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Police Fire on Cracksmen
TAREE, Sunday.--Disturbed in the Ford Garage, Taree, early yesterday, two men were fired on by police while making a getaway…
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LONDON, Sunday.--The central telephone exchange at Lille was destroyed by fire, Paris radio reports…
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Sincial[?] Elwyn Finlay (22), medical student, planted not guilty at the Central Police Court to-day to a charge of having maliciously given…
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About 9. o'clock to-night a fire destroyed the large premises of the Leeton Fruit Distributors in Acacia Avenue, Leeton…
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A forest fire in me Diamond Mountain of Korea has killed 400 persons and threatens shrines and…
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At 1 a.m. yesterday two men were disturbed in the Ford Garage, Taree, but they escaped after four shots had been fired by a police sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Spanish Liner on Fire. Warships Take Off Passengers. MADRID, Dec. 31. (A.A.P.)
Fire broke out in the Spanish passenger liner Cabo San Antonio (12,275 tons) on Friday, when the vessel was 500 miles south of Teneriffe (Canary…
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Throughout yesterday afternoon and until late last night more than a scorp of campers and local residents from the Whale Beach district fought a bushfire that swept through…
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ROME, Monday.--Fire broke out at midnight in the upper part of the Palazzo Canceller[?]a of the Vatican. The chancel of St. Lorenzo is believed…
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Key units of the vast plant of General Motors-Holdens, Ltd., at Woodville were menaced by a fire which gutted the big bulk store…
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BREAKING out at midnight, a disastrous fire last night swept the Apostolic Chancellery of the Vatican. It is feared that the historic Chancel of St. Lorenzo has been destroyed and the hall where official receptions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400 Killed in Forest Fire. London, Jan. 1. (A.A.P.)
A forest fire in the famous Diamond Mountains area of Korea has killed 400 persons, and is threatening shrines and temples dating back to the sixth century, according to Tokyo…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Passengers and Crew Saved. Spanish Liner Fire. PARIS, Jan. 1. (A.A.P.)
A French destroyer rescued the crew and 200 passengers from the Spanish liner Cabo San Antonio (12,275 tons), including General Suerodiaz, Chief of the Spanish General Staff…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Church and Chancellery. Priceless Tapestries Ruined. ROME, Jan. 1. (A.A.P.)
Fire broke out shortly before midnight last night in the Apostolic Chancellery and in the famous adjacent Church of San Lorenzo. Fire brigades, hampered by bitterly cold…
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A U-boat shelled and sank the trawler Barbara Robertson (325 tons) off the north coast of Scotland. One deckhand was killed…
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Four road-workers yesterday saved the Sacred Heart Church, Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, from serious damage by fire…
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The crib erected. in the Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst, for special Christmas services burst into flames yesterday, and the Rev. Father Evans, who was in the church,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mystery Fire in Rome. Frescoes Are Ruined. From Our Own Correspondent. London, Jan. 2
Mystery surrounds the disastrous fire that broke out in the Apostolic Chancellery and in the famous adjacent Church of San Lorenzo, in Rome…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Activities of I.R.A. Fire Station Bombed. LONDON, Jan. 2. (A.A.P.)
A bomb thrown through the window of a fire station at Londonderry (Northern Ireland) wrecked the ceiling of the fire engine shed, damaged an engine, and shattered one of the…
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