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LONDON, Saturday.—A fire in the battleship Vanguard is reported to have damaged radar equipment, the newest and most secret in the British Navy. The Admiralty has not yet released full details, but it…
Continued on Trove, page 56 →A firebug who attempted to burn down a house in Flemington on Saturday night is thought to have warned the Fire Brigade. Firemen, however, saw no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detectives are investigating fires which occurred in two rooms at the home of Mrs. Annie E. Stevens in Hampstead Road, Flemington,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Efforts were made to-day to save £100,000 worth of cheese, Which was damaged by water when a big…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIREMEN in a factory at Rush-cutters Bay yesterday trying to extinguish some burning sodium. They fought the small…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SMALL fire this morning at the plastic factory of Harris and Co., Devonshire St., Surry Hills, was under control before firemen arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A SMALL fire this morning at the plastic factory of Harris and Co.. Devonshire St., Surry Hills, was under control before firemen arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.).--Four fires in four different U.S. cities killed three men and caused damage estimated at more than £150,000 during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Mar. 10 (A.A.P.). —Two hundred guests fied from the Lake Hotel at Gary (Indiana) last night when fire broke out in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DENSE SMOKE CLOUDS poured from a telephone cable junction box under the pavement in South Elizabeth Street late this after noon, causing passing crowds to hasten to safety, frightened that the box might explode. City fire brigades quickly quelled the outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DENSE SMOKE CLOUDS poured from a telephone cable junction box under the pavement in South Elizabeth Street late this afternoon, causing passing crowds to hasten to safety, frightened that the box might explode. City fire brigades quickly quelled the outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two men were injured, cno seriously, when a 400-gallon bitumen vat caught alight at a Rosebery factory this morning. Then men…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Antonio Martini (32) and Edward Garland (34), in statements from the dock at Central Criminal Court today, denied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Antonio Martini (32) and Edward Garland (34), in statements from the dock at Central Criminal Court today denied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Antonio Martini (32) and Edward' Garland (34), in statements from the dock at Central Criminal Court today. denied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ald. Mathews stated at last meeting of Holroyd Council that his section of Holroyd did not want to set the world on fire. He was speaking in favour of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Bush and grass fires broke out in western Victoria today. One fire threatened the township of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a letter to Fairfield Council, Mr. J. Woods, for carramar, commented on the "lop-sided" fire rating in Fairfield district, and urged that council make repre…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW DELHI, Thursday.--Troops fired on rioting tribesmen in Peshawar, and a 6 pm to 6 am curfew has been imposed on the city, and on six other towns in the Punjab…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEST method of combating forest fires was discussed at the annual conference of the N.S.W. Graziers'…
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