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Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 76

A-A Gun Fires 12 Miles

The Sun · Wednesday 3 November 1943 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- The United States Army has a new 120mm anti-aircraft gun capable of firing 12 miles,…

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Exchange of Heavy Fire Over Channel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--One of the heaviest exchanges of gunfire across the English Channel took place last night…

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Exchange of Heavy Fire Over Channel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--One of the heaviest exchanges of gunfire across the English Channel took place last night…

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B.m.a. Fires First Shot at Beveridge Post-war Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON Thursday.--The B.M.A. has fired the first shot against the Beveridge Plan by refusing to allow doctors to accept a Bristol City Council appointment, under which the doctor undertakes to visit old-age…

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B.m.a. Fires First Shot at Beveridge Post-war Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--The B.M.A. has fired the first shot against the Beveridge Plan by refusing to allow doctors to accept a Bristol City Council appointment, under which the doctor undertakes to visit old-age…

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B.m.a. Fires First Shot at Beveridge Post-war Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--The B.M.A. has fired the first shot against the Beveridge Plan by refusing to allow doctors to accept a Bristol City Council appointment, under which the doctor undertakes to visit old-age…

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B.m.a. Fires First Shot at Beveridge Post-war Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--The B.M.A. has fired the first shot against the Beveridge Plan by refusing to allow doctors to accept a Bristol City Council appointment, under which the doctor undertakes to visit old-age…

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£40,000 Fire at Tannery

The Sun · Saturday 6 November 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- A fire, causing damage estimated at from £30,000 to £40,000, burnt out most of Turner and…

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Grim Fight to Beat Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 November 1943 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday- Passengers aboard a Swedish ship now safe in port tell, a grim story of a fire during…

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Grim Fight to Beat Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 November 1943 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday-- Passengers aboard a Swedish ship now safe in port tell a grim story of a fire during…

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Grim Fight to Beat Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 November 1943 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday- Passengers aboard' a Swedish ship. now safe in port tell a grim story of a fire during…

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Grim Fight to Beat Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 November 1943 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday-- Passengers aboard a Swedish ship now safe in port tell a grim story of a fire during…

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Manly Blaze

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 November 1943 · page 7

The contents of a lumber room at the rear of a house of 11 rooms in High Street, Manly, occupied by Mrs. A. M. Newmarch and family, caught…

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No Petrol for Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 November 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK.--The volunteer Fire Department at Bohemia, Long Island, New York, made arrangements to take part in a blackout test…

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California Forest Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 November 1943 · page 6

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 8 (A.A.P.).— Forest fires at Santa Monica burned part of the ranch owned by Bing Crosby, the film actor, rawd at least…

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Zeros Now Using Fire Bombs

The Sun · Tuesday 9 November 1943 · page 1

Jap fighters used a new type bomb on Sunday, in an effort to break an Allied bomber attack on Rabaul. The bombs are phosphorus in[?]…

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£3000 Damage by Fire at Botany

The Sun · Wednesday 10 November 1943 · page 3

A fire swept through the wool-scouring premises of McDonald Bros., in Daphne-street, Botany, from about 11.39 last night…

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Fire at Arncliffe

The Propeller · Thursday 11 November 1943 · page 6

At about 2 a.m. on Monday a fire broke out in the large garage of premises occupied by Mr. Richard Long, carrier, of West Botany Street…

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Trials of War in Jungle Doctors Working Under Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 November 1943 · page 6

FINSCHHAFEN, Wednesday.— Few medical units, and certainly no other Australian, casualty clearing station, have had such…

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Organising State's Bush Fire Defences; Big Improvement

The Land · Friday 12 November 1943 · page 3

AT the beginning of 1942 there were 600 bush fire brigades in N.S.W.; to-day the total is 948, with 81 fire-fighting squads organised by the police on the North Coast, where no brigades had ever existed before, as well as 107 others organised by local…

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