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Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 166

Farouk Dismisses Pm and Cabinet Rioters Set Fire To City

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

CAIRO, Mon.--King Farouk last night dismissed his Prime Minister (Nahas Pasha) and his all Waafdist (Nationalist) Cabinet. This followed appalling weekend scenes of…

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Farouk Dismisses Pm and Cabinet Rioters Set Fire To City

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

CAIRO, Mon.--King Farouk last night dismissed his Prime Minister (Nahas Pasha) and his all Waafdist (Nationalist) Cabinet. This followed appalling weekend scenes of…

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Farouk Dismisses Pm and Cadinet Rioters Set Fire To City

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

CAIRO,Mon.--King Farouk last night dismissed his Prime Minister (Nahas Pasha) and his all Waafdist (Nationalist) Cabinet. This followed appalling weekend scenes of…

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Terrorists Fire Heart Of Cairo Farouk Sacks P.M. Anti-U.K. Cabt. Dismissed Too

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

CAIRO. Mon.--King Farouk has dismissed his anti-British Prime Minister (Nahas Pasha) and his Cabinet. This followed appalling weekend scenes of destruction…

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Terrorists Fire Heart Of Cairo Farouk Sacks P.M. Anti-U.K. Cabt. Dismissed Too

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

CAIRO. Mon.--King Farouk has dismissed his anti-British Prime Minister (Nahas Pasha) and his Cabinet. This followed appalling weekend scenes of destruction…

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Woman Loses All in Bega Bushfire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 3

All that remained of a house owned by Miss E. E. Wilson, near Bega, on the South Coast, after the bushfires. Miss Wilson, who is 75, was away when her house was destroyed. She lost all her possessions…

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Townships saved as wind change checks bushfires

The Sun · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 3

A change of wind today checked bushfires threatening several towns in the devastated Riverina district. Among these the tiny township of Carabost which earlier was isolated and believed to have been partly destroyed…

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Ship 'through bushfire'

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sun. -- The captain of a British ship which reached Brisbane today said that off the New South Wales coast he had "sailed through a bushfire." He said he navigated…

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Seven Now Dead in Bushfires

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 5

The death of a man yesterday brought the known deathroll in New South Wales and Victorian bushfires to seven…

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Seventeen missing in U.S. flat blaze

The Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 1

MINNEAPOLIS, Monday.-- Seventeen persons are missing following a fire that gutted a three-floor block of flats early today. Search for victims was…

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Fires Damage 3 Rail Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 4

Bushfires have put out of commission a main railway line and two branch lines in New…

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Fires Damage 3 Rail Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 4

Bushfires have put out of commission a main railway line and two branch lines in New…

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Fires Damage 3 Rail Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 4

Bushfires have put out of commission a main railway line and two branch lines in New…

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Factory Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 3

A fire broke out in wood stacked at the Amplex box factory, Trafalgar Street, Enmore, yesterday afternoon…

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Fires Damage 3 Rail Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 3

Bushflres have put out of commission a main railway line and, two branch lines in New…

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Fires Damage 3 Rail Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 4

Bushfires have put out of commission a main railway line and two branch lines in New…

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Air-ground Tactics To Curb Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

ARMIDALE, Tuesday, --Close co-operation between airlines pilots and ground firefighting…

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Air-ground Tactics To Curb Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

ARMIDALE, Tuesday. --Close co-operation between airlines pilots and ground fireflghting…

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Air-ground Tactics To Curb Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

ARMIDALE, Tuesday. --Close co-operation between airlines pilots and ground firefighting…

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Air-ground Tactics To Curb Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

ARMIDALE, Tuesday. --Close co-operation between airlines pilots and around firefighting…

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