Bush Fire Danger Is Still Acute
APPEALING for care in the use of fire, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) stated this week that the fire risk lay generally…
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Rain Ends Fire Danger Ordeal Of Brothers Blaze Stops Truck
MELBOURNE, Friday.-- By Bushfires which had assumed serious proportions in various parts…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Bushfires which had assumed serious proportions in various parts…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Arrival of a cool change late yesterday saved Victoria from its worst bushfire threat since…
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LONDON, Thursday. -- Fire last night almost destroyed historic Naseby Hall (Northamptonshire), scene of the battle…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.— The British freighter Willesden to-day sent out distress signals from a position 14 miles east…
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ADELAIDE,-- Dutch couple lost nearly all their possessions when shed at Bridge water in which they had…
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LONDON, February 12.—The British Labour Government to-day is facing a sharp challenge in the House of Commons on its economic policy. The Opposition has tabled a motion stating that…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Sixty-two thousand volunteer fire-fighters from 890 rural fire brigades…
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Three men were missing last night after lighting a bushfire on a two-mile front in the Gembrook…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Thousands of pounds worth of damage is feared to have been caused by a fire…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (A.A.P.). —At least 10 persons were reported killed when a two-storey house caught fire and collapsed…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- fire which broke out today amongst a quantity of cork in the main hold of the…
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COROWA, Friday. --A mother watched helplessly today while her two children were burnt to death in a weatherboard cottage at Corowa…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.âTwo children, members of a family of 12, were burnt to death when…
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MORE THAN 100 bushfires broke out in Victoria on Thursday--the State's hottest day in two years. Picture shows a fire which was burning on a two-mile front between Cockatoo and Gembrook. FLAMES leapt 30 feet in the air as a bushfire swept…
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A 61-years-old crippled ex-soldier struggled out of a burning building in Stanmore this afternoon with severe burns to his face and hands…
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A 61-years-old crippled ex-soldier struggled out of a burning building in Stanmore this afternoon with severe burns to his face and hands…
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Ships' crews and brigades fought fires in the week-end in a British freighter berthed at…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A fire on the British motor vessel Willesden (7009 tons) at Outer Harbor has…
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