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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 131

Navy Fires Back At Nationalists

Truth · Sunday 25 June 1950 · page 2

HONGKONG, Saturday.—The Royal Navy announced today that H.M.S. Hart while on…

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Mysterious "Ball Of Fire"

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 25 June 1950 · page 3

NEW ORLEANS, June 24 (A.A.P.).— A great ball of fire visible for 500 miles burned for a few…

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Chinese Attack R.N. Frigate Fires At Planes

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 25 June 1950 · page 6

HONG KONG, June 24 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—The British frigate Hart yesterday fired on three Chinese…

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No call for (fire) alarm

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 June 1950 · page 10

ADELAIDE, Sat. -- From next week at Port Adelaide it won't matter that a fire alarm tuned in to an…

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Boy footballer causes explosions, fire

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 June 1950 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- A boy who kicked a football into high-tension wires at Abbotsford…

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U.N. Moves In Korean Flare-Up Cease Fire Order MacArthur Told To Rush Arms, Aid To Defenders: Full-Scale War Develops

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 June 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday.--An immediate cease fire in the South Korean Republic and the withdrawal of North Korean forces to the border was ordered by the United Nations Security Council last night…

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U.N. Moves In Korean Flare-Up Cease Fire Order MacArthur Told To Rush Arms, Aid To Defenders: Full-Scale War Develops

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 June 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday.--An immediate cease fire in the South Koran Republic and the withdrawal of North Korean Council last night…

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Security Council orders cease-fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Mon, (A.A.P.).--The United Nations Security Council today branded the invasion of South Korea from the North as an act of aggression and issued an…

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Driver burned in lorry blaze

The Sun · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 13

A lorry driver was badly burned in an acetylene cylinder fire at the works of the Commonwealth…

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80 Killed in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 3

DAMASCUS, Wednesday. -- Eighty persons were killed and 250 injured when the Irak Petroleum Company's…

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80 Killed in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2

DAMASCUS, Wednesday. -- Eighty persons were killed and 250 injured when the Irak Petroleum Company's…

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80 Killed in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2

DAMASCUS. Wednesday. -- Eighty persons were killed and 250 injured when the Irak Petroleum Company's…

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80 Killed in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 3

DAMASCUS, Wednesday. -- Eighty persons were killed and 250 injured when the Irak Petroleum Company's…

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800 Killed in Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 3

DAMASCUS, Wednesday. -- Eighty persons were killed and 250 injured when the Irak Petroleum Company's…

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Clothes Set on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 June 1950 · page 5

A man was fatally injured when burning acetylene gas, which escaped from a cylinder, set alight to his clothes…

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Oil Fire Fear in Capsize

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 June 1950 · page 1

Police and firemen, feared an explosion last night when eight tons of inflammable oil poured out of…

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British ship under fire

The Sun · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 8

HONGKONG, Friday -- Two Nationalist warships yesterday fired on the British Army transport vessel Maxwell…

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Thieves Start Office Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 2

Thieves last night broke into the offices of Country Press Ltd., Barrack St., City, and after…

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Thieves Start Office Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 2

Thieves last night broke into the offices of Country Press Ltd., Barrack St., City, and after…

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2 more fire days expected

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 7

Sydney's weather today and tomorrow should be fine, but cool to cold a Weather Bureau official said last night…

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