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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 76

£1500 Damage in Bag Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 August 1943 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Spontaneous combustion in 13,000 empty sodium nitrate bags caused a fire which damaged machinery and 23.000…

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£1500 Damage in Bag Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 August 1943 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Spontaneous combustion in 13,000 empty sodium nitrate bags caused a fire which damaged machinery and 23,000…

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Raiders Through Fire

The Sun · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday. -- "We approached the oilfields at the height of the derricks, and there were petrol flames leaping to 800 feet," said the only English airman on the Ploesti (Rumania) raid last Sunday week…

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Swedes Fire on Nazis

Daily Mirror · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Swedish antiaircraft guns fired on German planes South of Karlskrona (port on the south-east coast of Sweden)…

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Swedes Fire on Nazis

Daily Mirror · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Swedish anti-aircraft,guns fired on German planes south of Karlskrona (port on the south-east coast of Sweden)…

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Swedes Fire on Nazis

Daily Mirror · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Swedish anti-aircraft guns fired on German planes south of Karlskrona (port on the south-east coast of Sweden)…

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Japs Set Fire to Oil Depot

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 3

ALLIED SOLDIERS removing oil drums from a New Guinea depot set on fire by Japanese bombers…

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Safeguards Against Bushfires in Coastal Areas

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 2

IN view of the early bushfire danger in coastal areas, arrangements were being made by the Bush Fires Advisory Committee for the issue of…

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Government Stores Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 2

A SMALL quantity of cotton waste was destroyed by a fire at the Government Stores Department Harrington Street, City, early this…

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Government Stores Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 2

A SMALL quantity of cotton waste was destroyed by a fire at the Government Stores Department, Harrington Street, City, early this…

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Government Stores Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 3

'A SMALL quantity of cotton waste was destroyed by a fire at the Government Stores Department, Harrington Street, City, early this…

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Government Stores Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 3

A SMALL quantity of cotton waste was destroyed by a fire at the Government Stores Department, Harrington Street. City. early this…

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Government Stores Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 2

A SMALL quantity of cotton waste was destroyed by a fire at the Government Stores Department, Harrington Street, City, early this…

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Fire in Street Letter-box

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 4

Several letters were destroyed by fire in a letter-box at the corner of Bridge and Macquarie Streets, City, last night. Police believe that a cigarette butt…

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Fire Damages Domestic Laundries at Waterloo

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 8

LAUNDRIES of two homes in Raglan Street, Waterloo, were considerably damaged by fire about 1.40 a.m. today…

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Fire Damages Domestic (Laundries at Waterloo

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 8

LAUNDRIES of two homes in Raglan Street, Waterloo, were considerably damaged by fire about 1.40 a.m. today…

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Fire Damages Domestic Laundries at Waterloo

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 August 1943 · page 2

LAUNDRIES of two homes in Raglan Street, Waterloo were considerably damaged by fire about 1.40 a.m. today…

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Injured racing to fire hoax BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 15 August 1943 · page 6

Four firemen were injured today when rushing to answer what proved to be a false alarm. Their engine crashed into a…

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Mysterious Flat Fire

The Sun · Monday 16 August 1943 · page 3

At 3 am yesterday, Mrs. Edna May Leahy was awakened by knocking on the door of her flat in Francis-street, Bondi…

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Woman Awoke to See Fire at Door

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 August 1943 · page 3

When Mrs. Edna May Leahy, Francis Street, Bondi, opened the door of her fiat about 3.30 a.m. yesterday she found the…

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