Young Fears Bushfires
A fresh northerly wind this morning threatened to turn bush fires in the Crowther district towards Young, 20 miles away…
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Bushfire Menaces Victorian Town
MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hot northerly winds today are expected to increase the danger from bush and grass fires. The forest fire at Mirboo North is particularly dangerous…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- After the first race at Pakenham today the crowd was ordered off the racecourse, because the whole area was threatened by a bushfire…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Up till late this morning, because of bushfires in the district, there was a grave doubt as to whether the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- After the first race at Pakenham today the crowd was ordered off the racecourse because the whole area was threatened by a bushfire…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- After the first race at Pakenham today the crowd was ordered off the racecourse because the whole area was threatened by a bushfire…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- After the first race at Pakenham today the crowd was ordered off the racecourse because the whole area was threatened by a bushfire…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Hot northerly winds today are expected to increase the danger from bush and grass fires. The forest fire at Mirboo North is particularly dangerous…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A change of wind around 5 p.m. eased the desperate bush fire position in Victoria today,…
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Soldier fire-fighters battle with the bushfires that broke out in the Toomue Valley, Gippsland (Victoria) yesterday. Fires caused the abandonment of the Pakenham race meeting after the first event…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. — Nine-years-old Kathleen O'Brien, of Point Nepean Road, Cheltenham, was cooling off in…
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With only brief snatches of sleep, large number of men have been fighting fires in the Young district since last Monday…
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LOOTERS robbing Victorian bushfire victims of their last bits of furniture and clothing cast ah ugly…
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RAIN over the eastern half of the State has ended a new outbreak of bushfires which today threatened a number Of townships in the Gippsland area and destroyed several houses in outer suburbs of Melbourne…
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MELBOURNE, Sat.--Eight frightened children were prevented from running into a big grass fire at Rosanna by Heidelberg firemen today…
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PROPERTY and possibly the lives of citizens in outlying suburbs in the metropolitan area should be protected against the danger of bush…
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PROPERTY and possibly the lives of citizens in outlying suburbs in the metropolitan area should be protected against the danger of bush…
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PROPERTY and possibly the lives of citizens in outlying suburbs in the metropolitan area should be protected against the danger of bush…
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PROPERTY and possibly the lives of citizens in outlying suburbs in the metropolitan area should be protected against the danger of bush…
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PROPERTY and possibly the lives of citizens in outlying suburbs in the metropolitan area should be protected against the danger of bush…
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