Two Gassed By Bedroom Fire
First coal fire lit in an Erskineville bedroom caused an accumulation of carbonmonoxide gas, which killed a father and his 2½-year-old son…
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Fire In Cabin Of Dutch Ship
A fire damaged woodwork in a cabin of the Dutch hospital ship Tasman at Mort's Wharf, Balmain, this afternoon…
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LONDON, Thursday.--Broken-hearted, dazed and confused, Mrs. Pike stood last night outside her burnt-out-flat where on Tuesday night her two daughters, aged eight and 11, had perished ONE of the girls, after struggling in…
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LABUAN (Borneo).--Millions of gallons of oil have been lost in tremendous fires at the big oil centre of Brunei, in north-west Borneo. The fires have been burning…
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PORTLAND, Thursday. -- Logging operations in Oregon have been stopped because high temperatures have re-started forest fires…
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"THE Bush Fires Advisory Committee looks to the man on the land to do his utmost to collaborate in order to reduce the bush fire…
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SMALL landholders outside the city should be compelled to clear their land of dry grass, etc., and burn fire breaks before summer. I know one…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Lt.-General Adachi, commander of the 18th Jap Army in New Guinea, has notified Australian forces that he has ordered his men to cease fire but is not…
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Sir,—On November 16, 1944, a bushfire turned my camp and possessions into ashes. Two other timber-workers nearby, in…
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NEIGHBORS who heard smashing sounds in a house in Lawson-street, Paddington, last night…
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Two women were burned -- one severely when she rushed to the assistance of the other--…
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Shortly after 11 o'clock last night a spool of film in the operating box of the Astra Picture Theatre, Victoria Road, Drummoyne, burst into…
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A FIRE which broke out in the projection room of the Astra Theatre, Drummoyne, last night, when a film reel caught fire, caused…
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WHEN three cases of sulphuric acid fell on the deck of a ship at No. 5 wharf, Darling Harbor, this afternoon, a small fire broke out…
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OKINAWA, Wednesday. -- With the exception of a few small sections, the once great city of Tokio has been reduced to blackened rubble…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tended Wounded for Hour Under Fire! How Captain Allsopp Met His Death Official Account of Doctor's Heroism
How for an hour Captain R. J. Allsopp tended the wounded under incessant enemy machine gun and rifle fire before he was fatally…
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A fire which occurred in the office of Walter R. Butler, estate agent, in Punchbowl Road, Punchbowl, shortly after 3 a.m. yesterday, is attributed to…
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THE 240 employees of the Commercial Steel and Forging Co., Lidcombe who have been on strike for five weeks are fighting the employers’ first attempt…
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THIS FIVE-ROOM weatherboard cottage, and its contents, at 67 Palmer St., Dover Heights, was destroyed by lire last night. The occupants, Mr. James O'Toole (77) and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth O'Toole (75), were rescued from the flames by three men…
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A five-room weatherboard cottage and its contents were destroyed by fire last night at Dover Heights, Rose Bay. The…
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