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Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 131

Police Fire on Bombay Strikers: Four Killed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

BOMBAY, Tuesday. -- Four people were killed and 26 injured when police fired on strikers in the city yesterday, according to the central office of the Socialist Party…

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Police Fire on Bombay Strikers: Four Killed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

BOMBAY, Tuesday. -- Four people were killed and 26 injured when police fired on strikers in the city yesterday, according to the central office of the Socialist Party…

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Police Fire on Bombay Strikers: Four Killed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

BOMBAST, Tuesday. -- Four people were killed and 26 injured when police fired on strikers in the city yesterday, according to the central office of the Socialist Party…

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Police Fire on Bombay Strikers: Four Killed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

BOMBAY, Tuesday. -- Four people were killed and 26 injured when police fired on strikers in the city yesterday, according to the central office of the Socialist Party…

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Police Fire on Bombay Strikers: Four Killed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

BOMBAY, Tuesday. -- Four people were killed and 26 injured when police fired on strikers in the city yesterday, according to the central office of the Socialist Party…

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Police Fire on Bombay Strikers: Four Killed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

BOMBAY, Tuesday. -- Four people were killed and 26 injured when police fired on strikers in the city yesterday, according to the central office of the Socialist Party…

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Police Fire on Bombay Strikers: Four Killed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

BOMBAY, Tuesday. -- Four people were killed and 26 injured when police fired on strikers in the city yesterday, according to the central office of the Socialist Party…

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Tired Volunteers Battling On Against Big Fire Raging In North-west

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

Exhausted teams of firefighters yesterday were still trying in vain to stem the advance of the big fire which has been raging since Saturday across grassland and bush near Brewarrina, in the north-west. The fire has burnt out…

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Dramatic Attempt To Control Bushfire: Stock in Q'land Menaced

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

THOUSANDS of head of stock are menaced by a bushfire in the Wyandra district of Western Queensland, and desperate efforts are being made…

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Dramatic Attempt To Control Bushfire: Stock in Q'land Menaced

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

THOUSANDS of head of stock are menaced by a bushfire in the Wyandra district of Western Queensland and desperate efforts are being made…

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Bushfire Danger Not Past

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

Although all bushfires are under control in western districts and the weather yesterday and today…

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Families Flee From Blaze Stations menaced

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 1

Families from 20 homesteads between Walgett and Brewarrina fled lost night when a new bushfire…

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Fire Bells Welcome Santa

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday.--Alarm bells shrilled when rather Christmas, dressed in his traditional red robes, slid down a pole at London Fire Brigade headquarters last night. THE occasion was a Christmas…

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Fire Bells Welcome Santa

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday.--Alarm bells shrilled when Father Christmas, dressed in his traditional red robes, slid down a pole at London Fire Brigade headquarters last night. THE occasion was a Christmas…

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Fire Bells Welcome Santa

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday.--Alarm bells shrilled when Father Christmas, dressed in his traditional red robes, slid down a pole at London Fire Brigade headquarters last night. THE occasion was a Christmas…

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Fire Bells Welcome Santa

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday.--Alarm bells shrilled when Father Christmas, dressed in his traditional red robes, slid down a pole at London Fire Brigade headquarters last night. THE occasion was a Christmas…

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Fire Bells Welcome Santa

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday.--Alarm bells shrilled when Father Christmas, dressed in his traditional red robes, slid down a pole at London Fire Brigade headquarters last night. THE occasion was a Christmas…

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Fire Bells Welcome Santa

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday.--Alarm bells shrilled when Father Christmas, dressed in his traditional red robes, slid down a pole at London Fire Brigade headquarters last night. THE occasion was a Christmas…

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Fire Bells Welcome Santa

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday.--Alarm bells shrilled when Father Christmas, dressed in his traditional red robes, slid down a pole at London Fire Brigade Headquarters last night. The occasion was a Christmas…

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Fires Unchecked During Day Fighters Exhausted by Weather

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--High daytime temperatures are forcing firefighters in western Queensland to allow bushfires to rage unchecked…

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