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Fires & bushfires, 1949

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Children Die In Swiss Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 7

GENEVA, Thursday. -- Six boys and six girls between the ages of four and 15 and two nurses, one of them…

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Children Die In Swiss Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 7

GENEVA, Thursday. -- Six boys and six girls between the ages of four and 15 and two nurses, one of them…

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12 Children Die in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 2

GENEVA, Wed. (A.A.P.). -- Twelve Swiss children and a nurse were burned to death in a wooden chalet at Chateau…

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Children Die In Swiss Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 7

GENEVA, Thursday. -- Six boys and six girls between the ages of four and 15 and two nurses, one of them…

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Desperate Act As Fire Nears

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- A farmer frantically threw his wife and two children into a dam early today when a grass…

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Children Die In Swiss Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 2

GENEVA, Thursday. -- Six boys and six girls between the ages of four and 15 and two nurses, one of them…

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Desperate Act As Fire Nears

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- A farmer frantically threw his wife and two children into a dam early today when a grass…

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Children Die In Swiss Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 7

GENEVA, Thursday. -- Six boys and six girls between the ages of tour and 15 and two nurses, one of them…

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Fire at Penshurst. Weatherboard Home Destroyed

The Propeller · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 1

Last Saturday morning a fire broke out in a weatherboard cottage in St. George's Road, Penshurst, occupied by…

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Fire Causes £100,000 DAMAGE Store, Stock Destroyed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 5

A fire in Squire and Pepper's general store, Cowra, yesterday caused more than £100,000 damage. Police believe a discarded cigarette…

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Cowra Store Destroyed by Fire in Lunch-hour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 1

Damage estimated at £130,000 was caused by a fire in Squire Pepper Pty. Ltd., Cowra, during the lunch hour yesterday. The store was the largest departmental store in the south-west Thousands of people watched the fire, which was still burning late last night. (Story, P. 3.)…

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Bushfire Peril In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 21

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--With soaring temperatures and gale-force northerly winds, more…

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Bushfire Peril In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 21

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--With soaring temperatures and gale-force northerly winds, more…

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Bushfire Peril In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 21

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--With soaring temperatures and gale-force northerly winds, more…

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Essays on Bush Fire Prevention

The Land · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 8

First prize in the section for girls of 14. to 17 years in the essay competition sponsored by the Bush Fires Advisory Committee, in conjunction…

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Scrub Fires in Victoria

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Scrub and grass fire broke out in several parts of Victoria today…

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Reichstag Fire Echo

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 1

BERLIN, Friday.-- Ernst Torgler, one of the Communists who were accused of having set fire to the…

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Reichstag Fire Echo

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 1

BERLIN, Friday.-- Ernst Torgler, one of the Communists who were accused of having set fire to the…

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Cotton Destroyed in Big Rail Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 3

KARACHI, Friday.-- Fire in eight railway sheds and five waggons destroyed cotton valued at more than £500,000…

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Cotton Destroyed in Big Rail Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 12

KARACHI, Friday.-- Fire in eight railway sheds and five waggons destroyed cotton valued at more than £500,000…

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