Chinese missioners were calm under gun-fire
THE dull boom of artillery fire sounded from outside this long besieged city of Taiyuan as the bright-eyed, bearded old priest spoke. "Everything will be all right,"…
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Fire Brigade Election Places of Residence Decides Preferences
The marking of a ballot paper for the election or a representative of country councils on the Fire Brigades Board required some consideration from…
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DUBBO, Thursday.--Eight crew members of a Qantas Lancastrian had a narrow escape from death when the plane crashed on landing at Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Destroys Country Mill
INVERELL, Friday.--Damage estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused by a fire which this morning destroyed the Inverell Milling Company's three-storied…
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NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.). --Seventy-two persons are known to have died in the fire which destroyed the Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Patients In Danger; Hospital Fire
Visitors and passers-by carried patients to safety last night when a fire broke out in the Hilltop Convalescent Hospital, Carrington Avenue, Hurstville…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--Forty-one W.A.A.F.'s escaped in their night dresses early this morning when a…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--Forty-one W.A.A.F.'s escaped in their night dresses early this morning when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire destroys £40,000 mill
Flames leaping more than 100 feet into the air lit up Inverell early today when the £40,000 three-storey flour mill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Waaf's Flee Fire in Nightdresses
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--Forty-one W.A.A.F.'s escaped in their night dresses early this morning when a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Bureau at Royal Easter Show
A FEATURE of the Bush Fires Advisory Committee's Information Bureau at the Royal Agricultural Show this…
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WELLINGTON (New Zealand) fire brigade was called out yesterday to extinguish the Aurora Australis. Pedestrians who gave the alarm from a city…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rank Fires 1500 Over One Man London
FTLM CHIEF J. Arthur Rank sacked 1500 workers at Denham and Pinewood studios today, because of an industrial dispute over one man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fireman starts own fires AUCKLAND, Saturday. a Young volunteer
A fireman has been committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on two charges of arson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Music Lacked Fire
The rather lukewarm approach to the music shown in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's performance at the Town Hall on…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Ship Grounds in Fire Haze
PERTH, Sun.--The interstate freighter Lowana (3021 tons) ran aground in smoke haze from bushfires near Busselton…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gas Fires At Low Cost
The low running cost is one of the notable features about the "Serene" High Beam Gas Fire at David Jones' George…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Women Run From Fire
Women ran from their bedrooms in their night clothes when a fire broke out last night in the Paddington shop of Mcllrath's Ltd. Smoke from the fire suffocated a cat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cease-fire in China Likely
NANKING, Tuesday.-- A cease-fire order is expected to be given in China within a few days by Communists and the Kuomintang, a Nationalist Government spokesman stated yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Cease-fire in China Likely
NANKING, Tuesday.-- A cease-fire order is expected to be given in China within a few days by Communists and the Kuomintang, a Nationalist Government spokesman stated yesterday…
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