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Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 113

Oihnr Cable Items Fire Sweeps Camp Indian Refugees Special Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 3

NEW DELHI, May 26.— Fire swept through a crowded refugee camp outside Delhi last night after a severe dust…

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Arabs Suggest Truce Pact Cease-Fire Order Ignored Note to U.N. Gives Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 2

YORK, Thursday. -- The Arab States have formally rejected the Security Council's unconditional ceasefire order in Palestine…

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Arabs Suggest Truce Pact Cease-Fire Order Ignored Note to U.N. Gives Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- The Arab States have formally rejected the Security Council's unconditional ceasefire order in Palestine…

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Arabs Suggest Truce Pact Cease-Fire Order Ignored Note to U.N. Gives Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- The Arab States have formally rejected the Security Council's unconditional ceasefire order in Palestine…

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Arabs Suggest Truce Pact Cease-Fire Order Ignored Note to U.N. Gives Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- The Arab States have formally rejected the Security Council's unconditional ceasefire order in Palestine…

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Arabs Suggest Truce Pact Cease-Fire Order Ignored Note to U.n: Gives Plan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday. -- The Arab States have formally rejected the Security Council's unconditional ceasefire order in Palestine…

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Fire on Ship

The Sun · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 3

Crew of the 7200-ton Panamanian ship Atlantic Breeze extinguished a small fire in No. 3 hold today. The…

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Braved fire for jewels

The Sun · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 5

A Manly tailor was slightly burned last night when he defied firemen and dashed into…

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Fire in Manly Flat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 3

Fire burned out the top floor of a two-storey flat building in Lauderdale Avenue, Manly, last night…

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Workmen Run From Ship Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 3

Workmen on the 7000-tons Atlantic Breeze fled to safety about 2.15 p.m. today, when a fire broke…

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Workmen Run From Ship Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 3

Workmen on the 7000- tons Atlantic Breeze fled to safety about 2.15 p.m. today, when a fire broke…

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Persuasion Needed to Leave Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 5

A man had to plead with an 89-years-old woman to leave the blazing upstairs portion of a two-storey…

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Workmen Run From Ship Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 3

Workmen on the 7000-tons Atlantic Breeze fled to safety about 2.15 p.m. today, when a fire broke…

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Workmen Run From Ship Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 1

Workmen on the 7000 tons Atlantic Breeze fled to safety about 2.15 p.m. today, when a fire broke…

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Grannie, 89, Led Child From Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 May 1948 · page 7

An 89-year-old woman led her sick 14-year-old granddaughter to safety from a fire which gutted the top floor of a two-story house at Manly last night…

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Train Gave Fire Alarm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The crew of a goods train blew their engine whistle early today to wake up…

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U.K. Truce Plan for Palestine U.N. Asked To Order Cease-Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.).--Britain yesterday asked the U.N.O. Security Council to order a four-weeks truce in Palestine…

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The fire alarm fired blanks

The Sun · Sunday 30 May 1948 · page 7

A patent for a new fire- alarm door has been granted to Eugene Ellsworth, of Union Church,…

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Thieves Loot Ruins of Burnt-out House

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE,Monday.--After a house at Ringwood had been burned down early yesterday, thieves looted the…

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Thieves Loot Ruins of Burnt-out House

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--After a house at Ringwood had been burned down early yesterday. thieves looted the…

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