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Fires & bushfires, 1943

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Jewellery Saved in Hospital Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 6

VALUABLE jewellery was saved by firemen from a fire which severely damaged a woman patient's room at Tusculum Private Hospital, Manning…

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Jewellery Saved in Hospital Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 6

VALUABLE jewellery was saved by firemen from a fire which severely damaged a woman patient's room at Tusculum Private Hospital, Manning…

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Jewellery Saved in Hospital Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 6

VALUABLE jewellery was saved by firemen from a fire which severely damaged a woman patient's room at Tusculum Private Hospital, Manning…

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Tar Fire Kills Two

The Sun · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--A fire started by burning tar at their Avoca home caused the…

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Fatally Burnt In Grass Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 6

ARMIDALE, Friday. -- Mrs. Mabel Jane Perrott, 79, was burned to death when trapped by a grass fire at her…

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Planes Sow Seeds Over Fire-devastated Areas

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 6

NEW YORK.--Thousands of acres of valuable range-land burned out by the disastrous fires of the summer, are being re-seeded by 'plane in…

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Planes Take Final Toll of Enemy Convoy Hail Of Fire Over Barges

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 3

LIBERATOR BOMBERS and Beau-fighters combined yesterday in the final mopping-up operation which has written finis to the great convoy battle…

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Planes Take Final Toll of Enemy Convoy Hail Of Fire Over Barges

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 3

LIBERATOR BOMBERS and Beaufighters combined yesterday in the final mopping-up operation which has written finis to the great convoy battle…

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Planes Take Final Toll of Enemy Convoy Hail Of Fire Over Barges

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 3

LIBERATOR BOMBERS and Beaufighters combined yesterday in the final mopping-up operation which has written finis to the great convoy battle…

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Jewellery Saved in Hospital Blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 March 1943 · page 2

Firemen forced their way through choking fumes from a burning rubber mattress to save jewellery worth about £100 at Tusculum private hospital,…

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Jap Survivors Wiped Out in Grim Sea Hunt; Lae Smashed Allied bombers fire Jap ship in great convoy victory Parties of 200 perish in blitz on boats

The Sun · Sunday 7 March 1943 · page 1

Last Jap survivors of the annihilated Bismarck Sea convoy were systematically wiped out on Friday…

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Typhus Victims Set On Fire By Germans

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 March 1943 · page 3

MOSCOW, Sunday (A.A.P.).--Russian war prisoners sick, with typhus are shut up in barracks which the Germans then set alight…

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No Organised Brigade Bush Fire Burning for Days

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

A bushfire that has been burning for days at Glenorie, and was likely to become a menace, could not be extinguished because there…

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Grass Fire

The Biz · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 2

A grass fire which broke out on Tuesday near Dale's Bridge was extinguished by Fairfield Fire Brigade before any damage was done…

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Nazi Crews Set Ships on Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 3

BOMBAY, Wednesday (A.A.P.).-- Three German cargo, ships which have taken refuge at Goa (Portuguese India) since the war began, have been set on…

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Bush Fire Danger From Producer Gas Units

The Land · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 6

THE Chief Secretary, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, this week directed the attention of the public to the bushfire danger arising from the careless…

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Big Adelaide Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Damage estimated at more than £50,000 was done when the fellmongery of Robert Jowitt and Sons Ltd., Hindmarsh,…

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Soviet Women Watch For German Fires

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 March 1943 · page 5

WEARING THEIR PADDED FIRE-PROOF SUITS and firemen's brass helmets, women members of the Leningrad Fire Brigades' Watchers keep an incessant watch over the city for fires as a result of air attacks…

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Soviet Women Watch For German Fires

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 March 1943 · page 5

WEARING THEIR PADDED FIRE-PROOF SUITS and firemen's brass helmets, women members of the Leningrad Fire Brigades' Watchers keep an incessant watch over the city for fires as a result of air attacks…

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Mystery Fire in Copenhagen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1943 · page 10

NEW YORK, March 12 (A.A.P.).— Fire wrecked Burmeister and Wain's magazine wharf at Copenhagen on Wednesday night, says the Stockholm…

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