Matraville Paper Fire
Dense clouds of white smoke rose from two huge stacks of wood pulp which caught fire at the…
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Kowloon in Ashes Big Fire In Old City
HONG KONG, Jan. 11 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Most of the historic old walled city of Kowloon, on the…
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The guest lists of a number of weddings in town this week have been depleted by bushfires in the…
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Birds alighting on high-tension wires caused grassfires and blackouts yesterday in Victoria and South Australia. At Campbellfield,…
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Slight damage was caused when a fire broke out in a building at Hamilton Glass Works, Chapel St., Marrickville,…
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Slight damage was caused when a fire broke out in a building at Hamilton Glass Works, Chapel St., Marrickville,…
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Slight damage was caus[?] when a fire broke out in building at Hamilton Gla[?] Works, Chapel St.. Marrickvill[?]…
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Slight damage was caused when a fire broke out in a building at Hamilton Glass Works, Chapel St., Marrickville,…
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HONG KONG, January 12 A.A.P.-Reuter).—Fire-fighters last night brought under control the fire which has reduced…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs. -- Vandals this morning set fire to a suburban electric passenger train at Ringwood Station…
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Firemen pumped more than 100,000 gallons of water from Botany Bay to fight fires in two stacks of paper pulp at…
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Bushfire warnings were issued in N.S.W. and Victoria today. In Sydney, a Weather Bureau…
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Bushfire warnings were issued in N.S.W. and Victoria today. In Sydney, a Weather Bureau…
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Bushfire warnings were issued in N.S.W. and Victoria today. In Sydney, a Weather Bureau…
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Bushfire warnings were issued in N.S.W. and Victoria today. In Sydney, a Weather Bureau…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—A large motor truck carrying four generating erigines and other equipment from Sydney…
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The Chief Secretary (Mr. Matthews) said today that the ban on lighting fires in western New South Wales had been…
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CANBERRA, Fri.--Fire caused £12,000 damage to a semi-trailer and its load on the Cooma Road, seven miles from Canberra today…
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Flames destroying the Mercy Hospital in Davenport (Iowa, U.S.) last week. Trapped behind steel bars, 41 women mental patients perished in the fire…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (A.A.P.).—Fifteen hundred are believed to be homeless following a fire that destroyed…
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