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Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 76

Meeting of Fire Loss Assessors

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1943 · page 11

The annual general meeting and conference of the Institute of Fire Loss Assessors of Australia (Incorporated) will take place on Friday…

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British Strike at Mareth Line London Silent On Axis Report Guns Blaze in Night Barrage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--Both Berlin and Paris Radios,declare that the British Eighth Army has launched an offensive against the coastal end of the Mareth Line in Tunisia…

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British Strike at Mareth Line London Silent On Axis Report Guns Blaze in Night Barrage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--Both Berlin and Paris Radios declare that the British Eighth Army has launched an offensive against the coastal end of the Mareth Line in Tunisia…

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British Strike at Mareth Line London Silent On Axis Report Guns Blaze in Night Barrage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--Both Berlin and Pans Radios declare that the British Eighth Army has launched an offensive against the coastal end of the Mareth Line in Tunisia…

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Lit Fire As Work Protest

The Sun · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 3

A 15-year-old boy last night admitted to police that he had started a fire in a canister factory, because he was dissatisfied…

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£20,000 fire; three injured BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 21 March 1943 · page 2

THREE firemen were injured and £20,000 damage caused by a warehouse fire in Eagle-street, Brisbane, late this…

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North African War May Blaze Into Fresh Phase Of Fury Capture of Guetar As Prelude to New Blow

Truth · Sunday 21 March 1943 · page 17

LONDON, Saturday.—The apparent lull in heavy action in Africa may be broken this week-end. The American occupation of El Guetar in Tunisia threatens simultaneously the ports of Sfax and Gabes, the latter at the end of the northern section of the Mareth…

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Children Blamed for Tyre Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 3

CHILDREN are believed to have caused a fire which destroyed 600 old tyres and threatened 2,000,000 more in a paddock near Drummoyne…

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Children Blamed for Tyre Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 3

CHILDREN are believed to have caused a fire which destroyed 600 old tyres and threatened 2,000,000 more in a paddock near Drummoyne…

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Gelignite Dragged From Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 1

Six firemen saved a toolbox from a blazing store shed at Matraville yesterday. When opened it was found to hold 20…

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Gelignite Dragged From Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 2

Six firemen saved a toolbox from a blazing store shed at Matraville yesterday. When opened it was found to hold 20…

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Gelignite Dragged From Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 2

Six firemen saved a toolbox from a blazing store shed at Matraville yesterday. When opened it was found to hold 20…

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Gelignite Dragged From Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 2

Six firemen Saved a toolbox from a blazing store shed at Matraville yesterday. When opened it was found to hold 20…

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Gelignite Dragged From Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 2

Six firemen saved a toolbox from a blazing store shed at Matraville yesterday. When opened it was found to hold 20…

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Ack-Ack Fire More Effective

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.--Britain's anti-aircraft guns are eight times more effective than during the Battle of Britain, in 1940…

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Old Tyres Destroyed by Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 7

Firemen directing hoses on smouldering heaps of old motor tyres which were set alight by a grass fire in a paddock near works of Dunlop Rubber Australia, Ltd., at Drummoyne, yesterday. The tyres were stacked in heaps in the factory yard…

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Tyres Destroyed in Rubber Works Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 7

Several thousand used tyres were destroyed by fire at Dunlop Perdriau's rubber works, Drummoyne, yesterday. They were part of a stock of nearly…

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Box of Gelignite Carried From Fire

The Sun · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 3

A steel-lined wooden box containing gelignite was carried by firemen from a blazing shed in Togo-road, Matraville, yesterday…

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Set Fire to House to Destroy Fingerprints

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 6

TWO young men admitted at the Quarter Sessions today that after breaking into a house at Hurstville and driving stolen goods away in the…

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Set Fire to House to Destroy Fingerprints

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 6

TWO young men admitted at the Quarter Sessions today that after breaking into a house at Hurstville and driving stolen goods away in the…

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