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Fires & bushfires, 1940

1,637 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 82

Police Fire Shots. 32 Indians Are Killed. Parade Ban Defied. LAHORE, March 19. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 11

The police fired on members of the Khaksar (Aimy of Spades), a militant religious organisation, which defied the ban against parades, and 32…

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Bush Fires

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 13

AN exhibit of considerable interest to country visitors to this year's Sydney show will be found in the Agricultural Hall, where the Bush Fires Advisory…

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Fighting Oil Well Fires

Daily News · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 8

A GAINST a spectacular background of oil well fires, Edward G. Robinson is said to play one of the greatest roles of his career in the tensely dramatic theme of Blackmail, commencing at the Capitol Theatre…

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Fires Sweep Estate Moss Vale, Wed

Daily News · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 2

FIERCE southerly winds early to-day fanned smouldering bushfires in the Moss Vale district into…

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Colonial Mutual Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 8

Gross premium income of Colonial Mutuol Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., for the year was £390,680, said the chairman, Mr. M. H. Bailllel at the annual meeting in Melbourne…

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Oil Refinery Blaze. Main Tanks Saved. Sabotage Suspected. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 11

In one of the most spectacular fires seen in Melbourne for years, thousands of gallons of petrol, kerosene, crude oil, and lubricating oil at the Vacuum Oil…

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Sabotage Feared Cause of Big Oil Depot Blaze Melbourne

Daily News · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 1

TENS of thousands of gallons of petrol were destroyed late last night in a spectacular fire for which sabotage is suspected as the cause. The huge blaze occurred…

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Show Stand on Fire

Daily News · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 2

This picture snows the front oi the Coronation Grandstand at the Showground, with heavy smoke pouring…

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Big Fire In Stand At Show

Daily News · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 1

Three thousand people at the Show last night fled from the Coronation Stand as fire spread through the seats of the upper deck…

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Fire Scare in Stand at Show

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 7

WOMEN SPECTATORS being ushered from the Coronation Stand under a smoke cloud last night, when a fire began in the stand…

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Showground Fire. Stand Damaged. People's Calm Praised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 12

A fire which broke out in the top deck of the Coronation Stand at the Showground last night caused the ring events to be held up for some…

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Crowded Stand on Fire at Sydney Showground Diggers, Police Make Rescues While Ring Events Continue

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 2

A fire in the top deck of the Coronation Grandstand scattered more than 2000 Easter Show patrons last night. When the crowd in the stand realised that…

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Bushfire Fighting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 5

In the Agricultural Hall the Bushfires Advisory Committee has assembled vivid photographs of fires and carnage wrought by fires striking posters, and examples of fire-fighting…

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Sabotage Theory in Oil Fire Discounted

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Military intelligence officers are still investigating the cause of last night's fire at the Vacuum Oil Company's dump at…

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Oil Refinery Fire. Electrical Fittings Blamed. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 9

Police and military intelligence officers who conducted a thorough investigation to-day to determine the cause off the fire at the Vacuum Oil Company's works at spotswood last night,…

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Cause of Fire at Show. Probably Cigarette Butt or Match

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 9

After thoroughly examining the site of the fire in the Coronation Stand at the Showground on Wednesday night, the Chief Fire Officer, Mr. Richardson, and…

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Fires in Oil Depot. Sabotage Theory Now Discounted. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 14

Investigations by detectives and military Intelligence officers have convinced them that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding two fires which had occurred at…

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Fighter Plane. Can Fire at Any Angle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 18

A new technique in air defence is introduced by the British B. and P. Defiant twoseat fighter, which is already in service. Fitted with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine of 1,000…

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The Aftermath of Finland Germany's Diplomatic Warfare. Allied Policy Under Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 12

Challis Professor of History, University of Sydney. As the Finnish troops sullenly withdrew from the lines which the Red soldiery had not been able to wrest from them, and as half a million Finnish families began to trek on their Via Dolorosa westwards,…

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Spectacular Harbor Fire

Truth · Sunday 24 March 1940 · page 19

ONE of the most spectacular bushfires for many years started in thick scrub on Dobroyd Point at 2.30 yesterday…

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