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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1949

2,429 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 122

Air Voice for Spotting Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 5

CHARLESTON (West Virginia). -- Voices from the air will warn southern West Virginia of forest fire hazards…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when lie died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost every thing he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo-d" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaphs attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Long Jetty Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 6

GOSFORD, Thursday.--Fire this morning destroyed the wooden office of the timber supplies building of R. H. Wain…

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Long Jetty Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 6

GOSFORD, Thursday.-- Fire this morning destroyed the wooden office of the timber supplies building of R. H. Wain,…

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Long Jetty Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 6

GOSFORD, Thursday.--Fire this morning destroyed the wooden office of the timber supplies building of R. H. Wain…

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Long Jetty Blaze

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 6

GOSFORD, Thursday.-- Fire this morning destroyed the wooden office of the timber supplies building of R. H. Wain…

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Queer Tale About Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 7

NEW YORK.--The queerest fire story of the year, according to the fire protection institute in New…

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Queer Tale About Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 7

NEW YORK. -- The queerest fire story of the year, according to the fire protection institute in New…

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Sydney Woman Dies In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 3

T ONDON, Friday.--A Sydney. woman, Mrs. Agnes Allen (70), who was visiting relatives in Britain, was burned to death…

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Sydney Woman Dies In Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

LONDON, Friday-- A Sydney woman, Mrs. Agnes Allen (70), who was visiting relatives in Britain, was burned to death…

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Sloop's White Flag Ignored Reds Fire On R.N. Evacuees

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 1

SHANGHAI, Thurs.--Chinese Communists who shelled the British sloop Amethyst on the Yongtse River yesterday ignored two white flags hoisted on the sloop…

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Battered Sloop May Have to Face New Fire Dangers Thick On Escape Way

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 1

SHANGHAl, Friday.--The battered British naval sloop, Amethyst, which was shelled by Communists on the Yangtse River, with the loss of 17 lives, may have to run the gauntlet of the Red shore batteries before she can…

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Battered Sloop May Have to Face New Fire Dangers Thick On Escape Way

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 1

SHANGHAI, Friday.--The battered British naval sloop, Amethyst, which was shelled, by Communists on the Yangtse River, with the loss of 17 lives, may have to run the gauntlet of the Red shore batteries before she can…

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Nightdress Catches Fire; Girl's Injuries

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 4

LITHGOW, Saturday.--Shirley Cairney (13), of 8 Say well St., Lithgow, suffered severe burns when her…

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