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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1941

1,760 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 88

BOOFHEAD The Fire-Eater

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 8

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BOOFHEAD The Fire-Eater

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 8

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Harbor Fire for N.e.s. Test

The Sun · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 3

A realistic test of harbor fire-fighting facilities will be made on Thursday afternoon, when oil will be floated on Sydney Harbor, and set…

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Buckingham's Fire Profit Losses Secondary to Stock Replacement

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 9

COMING at a time when replacing retailers' luxury stocks is a matter of paramount importance and no less difficult, Buckingham's fire early last…

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Man and Wife for Trial. Arson Charge. Piano Factory Fire

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

The City Coroner, Mr. Oram, yesterday found that John Alexander Smirnoff and Elsie Smirnoff, his wife, had maliciously set fire to a piano factory…

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Malta's Stone Bouses Defy Axis Fire-bombs London, Friday (A.A.P.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 3

A staff officer and sergeant who returned to London today from Malta said no fires had been caused by any of the enemy's 600 raids on Malta, because of the solid stone blocks used in house…

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Drama of U S. Ship's Last Hour Cold Murder By U-Boat Patrols May (Fire at Sight From Now on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--Twelve hundred American newspapers are headlining the dramatic story of the last hour of the Robin Moor and tell how the Nazi submarine commander, after ascertaining that she was…

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Drama of U.S. Ship's Last Hour Cold Murder By U-Boat Patrols May Fire at Sight From Now on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--Twelve hundred American newspapers are headlining the dramatic story of the last hour of the Robin Moor and tell how the Nazi submarine commander, after ascertaining that she was…

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Drama of U S. Ship's Last Hour Cold Murder By U-Boat Patrols May Fire at Sight From Now on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--Twelve hundred American newspapers are headlining the dramatic story of the last hour of the Robin Moor and tell how the Nazi submarine commander, after ascertaining that she was…

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Drama of U.S. Ship's Last Hour Cold Murder By U-Boat Patrols May Fire at Sight From Now on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--Twelve hundred American newspapers are headlining the dramatic story of the last hour of the Robin Moor and tell how the Nazi submarine commander, after ascertaining that she was…

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Drama of U.S. Ship's Last Hour Cold Murder By U-Boat Patrols May Fire at Sight From Now on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--Twelve hundred American newspapers are headlining the dramatic story of the last hour of the Robin Moor and tell how the Nazi submarine commander, after ascertaining that she was…

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Drama of U.S. Ship's Last Hour Cold Murder By U-Boat Patrols May Fire at Sight From Now on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday.-- Twelve hundred American newspapers are headlining the dramatic story of the last hour of the Robin Moor and tell how the Nazi submarine commander, after ascertaining that she was…

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Girls Fall Into Blaze London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 1

Two girls fell from the roof of a bank into a fiercely burning adjoining building during London's worst fire raid on the…

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Heroes of Fire Blitz. Bank Was Saved. Seven Plucky Girls. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, June 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 8

A remarkable story of the courage and endurance of an office fire-fighting party of eight men and seven women who saved a bank building in London…

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Fire in Doctor's Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 10

Fire broke out late last night in a bedroom of the residence of Dr. James Gruen, of Flinders Street, Darlinghurst. Brigades from headquarters and Darlinghurst extinguished…

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French Fire on Norwegian Ship London

The Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 6

A French shore battery at Iles de Los off French Guinea (West Africa), last Thursday shelled a Norwegian tanker, and a French…

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Fire Contributions

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 2

In reply to his representations on behalf of Granville Council, concerning the question of relieving council of the payment of contributions to the…

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Garbage Depot on Fire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 3

"The whole face of the garbage depot at Pitt-street is now alight and burning," the health inspector (Mr. Membrey) told Parramatta Council last…

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Girl, Aged 4, Dies in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Lilian Shirley Croy, aged 4, was burned to death when a house was destroyed at Woorarra West early today…

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Protection of Reserve Cotton Stock From Fire

Construction · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 6

The Commonwealth Government, in arranging with Bonds Industries Limited to build a special Reserve Cotton Store at Wentworthviile, N.S.W. (featured in last week's "Construction") specified…

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