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Fires & bushfires, 1941

1,760 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 88

Heavy Damage In Harbor Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 7

LOS ANGELES, Friday. -- A 500,000-dollar fire has destroyed four blocks of pier sheds on the west side of the main…

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Heavy Damage In Harbor Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 7

LOS ANGELES, Friday.-- A 500,000-dollar fire has destroyed four blocks of pier sheds on the west side of the main…

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Heavy Damage In Harbor Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 7

LOS ANGELES, Friday.--A 500,000-dolIar fire has destroyed four blocks of pier sheds on the west side of the main…

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Heavy Damage In Harbor Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 7

LOS ANGELES, Friday.-- A 500,000-dollar fire has destroyed four blocks of pier sheds on the west side of the main…

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Lessons of Fire Blitz. Some Fire Chiefs to Be Replaced. From Our Own Correspondent. London, May 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 10

Plans for weeding out several of Britain's fire chiefs under the new national fire brigade scheme are being made to cope more efficiently with war…

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Fire Chiefs Do Their Stuff

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 24

MR. W. S. MORRISON, Minister for Home Security, operates the "deluge set," a 2½in. jet, which is powerful enough to knock a house…

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Fire Chiefs Do Their Stuff

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 24

MR. W. S. MORRISON, Minister for Home Security, operates the "deluge set," a 2½in. jet, which is powerful enough to knock a house…

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Fire Chiefs Do Their Stuff

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 24

MR. W. S. MORRISON, Minister for Home Security, operates the "deluge set," a 2½in. jet, which Is powerful enough to knock a house…

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Fire Chiefs Do Their Stuff

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 24

MR. W. S. MORRISON, Minister for Home Security, operates the "deluge set," a 2½in. jet, which is powerful enough to knock a house…

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Fire Blitz Damage. Famous Buildings Wrecked London, May 16. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 14

Further details of the damage done during the very heavy German raid on London last Saturday night have now been revealed…

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Books of the Week. Co-ordinating the Social Services-Ordeal by Fire in London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 8

It is an encouraging thing to find, not only an Australian embarking on a long study of the social sciencas and an examination of…

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Law Report. in Equity. Queensland Insurance Coy. Ltd. v the Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society Ltd, and Another

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 7

By way of explanation of the report of these proceedings appearing in the "Herald" of the 8th instant, it is pointed out that the statements in the report…

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Keep the Home Fires Burning Concert Girls Who Cheer Army

The Sun · Sunday 18 May 1941 · page 5

WHEN the war is over, soldiers will remember with gratitude the hundreds of concert party girls who…

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Fire Follows Explosion

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 2

FIRE broke out following an explosion at the Kembol Chemical Works, Rhodes, this morning. Machinery, and portion of the building…

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Fire Follows Explosion

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 2

FIRE broke out following an explosion at the Kembol Chemical Works, Rhodes, this morning. Machinery and portion of the building…

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Fire On Copra Ship

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 2

DETECTIVE SERGEANT WILSON, of the Arson Squad has completed Inquiries into a fire which broke out in the hold of a ship in Sydney…

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Fire On Copra Ship

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 2

DETECTIVE SERGEANT WILSON, of the Arson Squad has completed inquiries into a fire which broke out in the hold of a ship in Sydney…

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French Open Fire on R.A.F. Raiding Syria New Airports Blasted London

The Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 1

French guns yesterday fired on British aircraft bombing the Syrian airport of Rayak, which is being used by German planes flying into Irak, reports the Beirut correspondent of the "Daily Express."…

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Germans Hammered in Syria French Fire At R. A. F. Report That Russia May Join Nazis: Turks Close Border

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--As tension o n the Syria-Palestine border hourly increases, the R. A. F. has renewed its attacks on German-occupied airports in Syria and the Mosul and Bagdad areas (Irak). Many enemy planes have been destroyed on…

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Germans Hammered in Syria French Fire At H. A. F. Report That Russia May Join Nazis for March on Oilfields

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--As tension on the Syria-Palestine border hourly increases, the R. A. F. has renewed its attacks on German-occupied airports in Syria and the Mosul and Bagdad areas (Irak). Many enemy planes have been destroyed on…

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