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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 76

Fear Volunteer Fire Brigades

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 May 1943 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--At an interstate fire brigades conference today it was decided to ask State authorities not to use A.R.P. volunteer firemen…

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Stop Press Station Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1943 · page 12

Police investigating fires on the Harris Park and Wentworthville railway stations recently today rested a young man Thousands of…

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Boy's Alleged Admission Railway Station Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 May 1943 · page 6

A statement written by a boy of l6 after his arrest at Parramatta yesterday is alleged by police to have cleared up the…

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Alleged Confession by Boy of 16 Railway Station Fires

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 19 May 1943 · page 1

Questioned yesterday by the police when he returned to his home at Granville—he had been missing since last Friday…

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Two Big Explosions on Centaur Survivors Hurt by Falling Timber: Rescuers Hold Off Sharks with Revolver Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 May 1943 · page 3

Survivors of the hospital ship Centaur, torpedoed and sunk on Friday, told of two terrific explosions on deck. A hail of splintered timber injured many of them as they rushed up from below…

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Railway Station Fires. Boy's Alleged Admission

The Biz · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 3

A statement written by a boy of 16 after his arrest at Parramatta on Tuesday is alleged by police to have cleared up the mystery of fires which destroyed…

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Hurstville Fire Guards. Residents Urged to Volunteer

The Propeller · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 6

In view of the fact that the minimum number of fire guards considered necessary to provide an efficient protective service for Hurstville Municipality is 2,200--…

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Fire Risk in Cabarets Sterner Control Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 9

Police and fire brigade officers consider that when the bill providing for more strict, supervision of night clubs and cabarets…

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Patient Spits Fire Like Ancient Dragon

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 6

LONDON, Friday. -- A startling method for the electric welding of teeth in a patient's mouth is being used by Mr…

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Fire Guard Service. with Rockdale N .E .S

The St George Call · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 1

Complimentary reference Is being worthily made to the Chief Warden (Mr. Webb) of National Emergency Services in Rockdale Municipality for his Inauguration…

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Japan's Heart of Wood It was fire, not earthquake, which caused the mad panic in Tokio, on September 1, 1923 Churchill Promises To Find

The Sun · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 4

Britain will fight until Japan's cities are…

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Written in Fire

The World's News · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 15

IT was midwinter and Mrs. Durkin's two-family house was cold, clammy, cheerless. "You ought to turn on a little heat,…

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Fire in Spanish Fleet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 10

LONDON, May 21 (A.A.P.).— Berlin Radio has reported that a huge fire has been sweeping Ferrol, Spain's largest naval…

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Arrests After Fire At Spanish Port

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).--Many arrests are reported to have followed a great fire in the Spanish naval base of Ferrol…

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Japanese Use New A.-a. Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 10

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA. Thursday.—A new type of anti-aircraft fire was seen by the crew of a Flying Fortress in…

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Three Jap Bombers Raid W.A. A.A. fire drives off night raiders 700 miles north of Perth

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 May 1943 · page 1

Three Japanese bombers on Thursday night attacked an undisclosed target in Exmouth Gulf, on the Western Australian coast, 700 miles north of Perth…

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The New Films Film of Week: Still waiting for one. Scene of Week; Bob Young fires a revolver ("Cairo"). Acting of Week; Same Mr. Young in same film. Cairo

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 May 1943 · page 23

IT'S ABOUT: Nazi spies. YOU'LL SEE: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young. M.G.M.'s "Cairo" sets out as a…

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Great Fires Burning Under Smoke Pall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 5

One of the first pilots to arrive over Dortmund said: "The weather was nearly perfect. We saw the river and roads…

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Fierce Air Blows at Rabaul Large Fires Started Bombs Smash Enemy Planes

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 2

FIRES started when Allied heavy bombers dropped 16 tons of explosives and incendiaries on packed aircraft on Japanese plane bases at Rabaul early yesterday morning…

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Fierce Air Blows at Rabaul Bombs Smash Enemy Planes Large Fires Started

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 2

FIRES started when Allied heavy bombers dropped 16 tons of explosives one incendiaries on packed aircraft on Japanese plane bases at Rabaul early yesterday morning…

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