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Fires & bushfires, 1946

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Combustion Believed Cause of Gaol Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 8

SLOW combustion, aided by tropical vegetation adhering to military kit and medical bags, and oil on some tarpaulins, almost certainly…

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Combustion Believed Cause of Gaol Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 2

SLOW combustion, aided by tropical vegetation adhering "to military kit and medical bags, and oil on some tarpaulins, almost certainly…

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Combustion Believed Cause of Gaol Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 8

SLOW combustion, aided by tropical vegetation adhering to military kit and medical bags, and oil on some tarpaulins, almost certainly…

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Police Stand By At Prison Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 1

About 100 police from metropolitan stations were rushed to Long Bay gaol last evening as a precautionary measure when a fire…

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Combustion Believed Cause of Gaol Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 8

SLOW combustion, aided by tropical vegetation adhering to military kit and medical bags," and oil on some tarpaulins, almost certainly…

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Canadian “Spy” Scare Like Reichstag Fire

Tribune · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 4

The Canadian “atom-bomb spies” provocation is compared With the Nazis’ Reichstag Fire, for which German Communists were framed, by the leading Soviet commentator, D. Zaslavsky. In this sensational exposure of die lies in the Canadian press and the Royal Commission report, Zaslavsky mentions an “immensely wealthy and powerful” secret organisation in Canada, which, following tried…

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Combustion Believed Cause of Gaol Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 8

SLOW combustion, aided by tropical vegetation adhering to military kit and medical bags, and oil on some tarpaulins, almost certainly…

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Police, Brigade Chief Probing Fire At Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 5

Detectives and Chief Officer Beare, of the Fire Brigade, who are inquiring into the fire at Long Bay Gaol last night, are not overlooking the possibility that the blaze was deliberately started…

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Police, Brigade Chief Probing Fire At Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 5

Detectives and Chief Officer Beare, off the Fire Brigade, who are inquiring into the fire at Long Bay Gaol last night, are not overlooking the possibility that the blaze was deliberately started…

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Firemen at Long Bay Fire in Jail; Warders Free 100 Prisoners From Cells

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 1

Warders had fo release nearly 100 prisoners from their cells when fire broke out in Long Bay Jail last night. Smoke was choking the prisoners. More than 50 police and…

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Boys Attempt to Fire Prison Riot Feared At Borstal 250 Boys Stage Demonstration

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 12

LONDON, Friday.--An attempt to fire the Borstal boys' home at Dartmoor last night was the culmination of four days of tension at the…

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Boys Attempt to Fire Prison Police Fears Of Riot At Borstal Boos, Hoots for Officials

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--An attempt to fire the Borstal boys' home at Dartmoor last night was the culmination of four days of tension at the…

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Boys Attempt to Fire Prison Police Fears Of Riot At Borstal Boos, Hoots for Officials

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--An attempt to fire the Borstal boys' home at Dartmoor Last night was the Culmination of four days" of tension at the…

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Bushfires in Queensland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—More than 60,000 acres are estimated to have been burnt out during yesterday's extensive bushfires…

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Neighbors Rescue Man From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 August 1946 · page 3

Overcome by smoke a man was dragged fo safety by two neighbors from a fire which gutted the upstairs portion of a house in Hutchinson St., Surry Hills, early this morning…

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Neighbors Rescue Man From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 August 1946 · page 3

Overcome by smoke o man was dragged to safety by two neighbors from a fire which gutted the upstairs portion of a house in Hutchinson St., Surry Hills, early this morning…

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Neighbors Rescue Man From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 August 1946 · page 3

Overcome by smoke a man was dragged to safety by two neighbors from a fire which gutted the upstairs portion of a house in Hutchinson St., Surry Hills, early this morning…

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Neighbors Rescue Man From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 August 1946 · page 3

Overcome by smoke a man was dragged to safety by two neighbors from a fire which gutted the upstairs portion of a house in Hutchinson St., Surry Hills, early this morning…

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Neighbors Rescue Man From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 August 1946 · page 3

Overcome by smoke a man was dragged to safety by two neighbors from a fire which gutted the upstairs portion of a house in Hutchinson St., Surry Hills, early this morning…

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Neighbors Rescue Man From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 August 1946 · page 2

Overcome by smoke a man was dragged fro safety by two neighbors from a fire which gutted the upstairs portion of a house in Hutchinson St., Surry Hills, early this morning…

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