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Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 113

£740,000 cotton fire not sabotage

The Sun · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 3

There was no evidence to show that a £740,000 cotton fire in the Commonwealth Store, Waterloo, on April 1, was the result of sabotage or arson, a detective from the CIB…

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Coroner Told Cotton Fire Not Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 5

"I am satisfied the fire was not caused by sabotage or arson," Det.-Sgt. H. Barnes, of the Arson…

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Coroner Told Cotton Fire Not Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 5

"I am satisfied the fire was not caused by sabotage or arson," Det.-Sgt. H. Barnes, pf the Arson…

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Coroner Told Cotton Fire Not Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 5

"I am satisfied the fire was not caused by sabotage or arson," Det.-Sgt. H. Barnes, of the Arson…

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Coroner Told Cotton Fire Not Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 5

"I am satisfied the fire was not caused by sabotage or arson," Det.-Sgt. H. Barnes, of the Arson…

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Coroner Told Cotton Fire Not Sabotage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 5

"I am satisfied the fire was not caused, by sabotage or arson," Det.-Sgt. H. Barnes, of the Arson…

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Runner-up in Derby Saved in Stud Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Jesmond Dene, who was second Hyperion in the 1933 Derby, was saved in a fire at a stud…

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Runner-up in Derby Saved in Stud Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Jesmond Dene, who was second to Hyperion in the 1933 Derby, was saved in a fire at a stud…

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Runner-up in Derby Saved in Stud Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Jesmond Dene, who was second to Hyperion in the 1933 Derby, was saved in a fire at a stud…

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Runner-up in Derby Saved in Stud Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Jesmond Dene, who was second to Hyperion in the 1933 Derby, was saved in a fire at a stud…

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Runner-up in Derby Saved in Stud Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Jesmond Dene, who was second Hyperion in the 1933 Derby, was saved in a fire at a stud…

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Late News Phone: M2406 Fire in Dutch Royal Palace

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 16

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--A big fire out last night in the Royal Palace at The Hague (Holland)…

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Cotton Fire Suggestion

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 4

A recommendation that the authorities might consider storing cotton in smaller quantities, so that…

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Cotton Fire Suggestion

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 4

A recommendation that the authorities might consider storing cotton in smaller quantities, so that…

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Cotton Fire Suggestion

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 4

A recommendation that the authorities might consider storing cotton in smaller quantities. so that…

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Cease Fire Resolution Discussed

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, May 18.—The Security Council is meeting again tonight to consider the American resolution, which declared that the situation in Palestine…

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Fire Inquiry: Open Finding

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 3

A recommendation that the authorities might consider storing cotton in smaller quantities, so that it could be isolated in the event of fire, was made by the City Coroner…

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Stop Press Fire on Warf

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 16

Fire which broke out in housed sugar-conveyor-belt at Colonial this afternoon was brought under…

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Royalty Under Fire; Sunday Dance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 3

LONDON, May 19 (A.A.P.). —The Scottish Association of the Lord's Day Observance Society to-day telegraphed the…

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Stop Press Fire on Whare

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 16

Fire which broke out in housed sugar-conveyor-belt at colonial Sugar Refining Co. wharf at Pyrmont this afternoon was brought under…

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