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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 113

Police Suspect Children Of Causing Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 4

Police suspect that fires at a school and factory in Sydney on Saturday were started by children…

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£5000 Fire Damage in Country Town

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday. -- Nine business premises and a large section of the Maroochy Shire Hall at Nambour, 60…

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Fires Blamed on Firebug

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.— Police are investigating a series of fires which have broken out in the last month in hedges in…

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Fire in Flats

The Sun · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 2

Firemen had to use masks to fight a fire in the boiler room of St. Havana Flats, Elizabeth Bay-road, Elizabeth…

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Fire Damages House Occupants Flee In Night Attire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 4

Two married couples had to run in their night attire from a burning house in Manning Road, Double Bay, early…

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British Threat to Fire on Jews If City Attacked Arab Army Movement

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Wednesday.--The British Army in Palestine has threatened to go into action against Jews in the Jaffa area unless they cease their attacks on…

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British Threat to Fire on Jews If City Attacked Arab Army Movement

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Wednesday.--The British Army in Palestine has threatened to go into action against Jews in the Jaffa area unless they cease their attacks on…

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British Threat to Fire on Jews If City Attacked Arab Army Movement

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Wednesday.--The British Army in Palestine has threatened to go into action against Jews in the Jaffa area unless they cease their attacks on…

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British Threat to Fire on Jews If City Attacked Arab Army Movement

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Wednesday.--The British Army in Palestine has threatened to go into action against Jews in the Jaffa area unless they cease their attacks on…

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British Threat to Fire on Jews If City Attacked Arab Army Movement

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Wednesday.--The British Army in Palestine has threatened to go into action against Jews in the Jaffa area unless they cease their attacks on…

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British Threat to Fire on Jews If City Attacked Rising Tension In Palestine War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Wednesday.--The British Army in Palestine has threatened to go into action against Jews in the Jaffa area unless they cease their attacks on this all-Arab seaport…

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Salvage From Cotton Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The Minister for Trade and Customs, Senator Courtice, said in the Senate to-day that 14,467…

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Fire-bug Lights Sixteenth Hedge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Melbourne's mystery firebug lit his 16th hedge for the month at Kew last night…

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Fire-bug Lights Sixteenth Hedge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Melbourne's mystery firebug lit his 16th hedge for the month at Kew last night…

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Fire-bug Lights Sixteenth Hedge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Melbourne's mystery firebug lit his 16th hedge for the month at Kew last night…

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Allied Policy in Berlin Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 3

BERLIN, Thursday. -- The Russian representative on the Allied Control Council in Berlin (Col. Yelizarov)…

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31 Firemen Overcome In City Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 1

Thirty-one firemen were overcome by stifling smoke last night at a fire in Bathurst House, at the…

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Wedding Of Lana Still Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 3

PITTSBURGH, Friday.--The Lana Turner-Bob Topping wedding is still under fire from the…

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Wedding Of Lana Still Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 1

PITTSBURGH, Friday.-- The Lana Turner - Bob Topping wedding is still under fire from the…

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Jews Order Cease-fire in Assault on Jaffa Grim Note By Britain

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Friday.-- Following a tersely worded British warning threatening the heaviest retaliatory action, the Jewish assault on Jaffa has…

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