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Fires & bushfires, 1943

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Nazis Fire on Crowds in Copenhagen Wave Of Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday,--A serious clash is reported from Copenhagen, where Nazi troops fired on Danish demonstrators outside the Town Hall…

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Nazis Fire on Crowds in Denmark Wave Of Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 1

London, Friday. -- A serious clash is reported from Copenhagen, where Nazi troops fired on Danish demonstrators outside the Town Hall…

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Nazis Fire on Crowds in Denmark Wave Of Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--A serious clash is reported from Copenhagen, where Nazi troops fired on Danish demonstrators outside the Town Hall…

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Nazis Fire on Crowds In DENMARK Wave Of Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday,--A serious clash is reported from Copenhagen, Where Nazi troops fired on Danish demonstrators outside the Town Hall…

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Berlin Fighting Widespread Fires All Business Halted After R.A.F. Raid; Death Roll of 12,000

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday. -- Berlin today is a city off the dead, says a Swedish traveller just arrived from Berlin. "The whole off the city's activities are directed to-wards fighting the colossal fires started in Monday night's…

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New Raid on Berlin by R.a.f. Heavy Enemy Barrage Old Fire Embers Still Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 5

LONDON, August 26 (A.A.P.).—Berlin last night had another visit from R.A.F. raiders, this time from Mosquito bombers. The Mosquitoes began to attack targets at 10.40…

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Dumps Explode; Huge Fires Burn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 9

The raiding of the Hansa Bay area and south-east along the coast for 30 miles to Kronprinz Harbour and Eitel Frederick…

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Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 8

MORE than 1000 pig carcases, ready for distribution to the forces, hams and bacon valued at £5000 were destroyed in a…

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Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 8

MORE than 1000 pig carcases, ready for distribution to the forces, hams and bacon valued at £5000 were destroyed in a…

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Thieves Start Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday. -- Thieves who broke into David Cohen and Co.'s store in Stevenson Place, Newcastle, last night are believed to have…

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Thieves Start Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-- Thieves who broke into David Cohen and Co.'s store in Stevenson Place, Newcastle, last night are believed to have…

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Thieves Start Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday. -- Thieves who broke into David Cohen and Co.'s store in Stevenson Place, Newcastle, last night are believed to have…

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Thieves Start Warehouse Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday. -- Thieves who broke into David Cohen and Co.'s store in Stevenson Place, Newcastle, last night are believed to have…

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Crown Seal Plunge Misses Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Fred Hoysted, last season's leading trainer, scored his first win of the new season when Star Valley won the…

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"A Man with Fire in His Belly"

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 10

LINK that Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder has with Australia is in his wife having been the Australian-born Rosalinde Maclardy, affectionately regarded and widely esteemed as "The Unknown Friend," who wrote the letters of so many wounded pilots in hospitals she herself supervised, and whose own…

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£20,000 Damage in Big Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 2

MORE than £5000 worth of hams and bacon went up in smoke this morning when a spectacular fire almost completely gutted the Homebush Bay factory of Barnes Bacon Co. Pty. Ltd. Total damage is…

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£20,000 Damage in Big Factory Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 2

MORE than £5000 worth of hams and bacon went up in smoke this morning when a spectacular fire almost completely gutted the Homehush Bay factory of Barnes Bacon Co. Pty. Ltd. Total damage is…

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Damage of £20,000 in Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 2

More than £5000 worth of hams and bacon went up in smoke this morning when a spectacular fire almost…

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Damage of £20,000 in Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 2

More than £5000 worth of hams and bacon went up in smoke this morning when a spectacular fire almost…

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£20,000 Loss in Factory Fire Ham, Bacon For Services Destroyed Firemen Risk Falling Wall

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 August 1943 · page 2

MORE than £5000 worth of hams and bacon went up in smoke this morning' when a spectacular fire almost completely gutted the Homebush Bay factory of Barnes Bacon Co…

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