£1,000 Fire in Ketch
ADELAIDE, Saturday.— An alarm, given by a man on duty on Birkenhead Bridge control tower, saved the…
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Huge Loss In U.S. Fire
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (A.A.P.). — A fire in a Philadelphia box factory to-day caused damage…
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Biggest fire for 11 years in Philadelphia today swept through a paper-box factory…
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MELBOURNE, Sat. — Scores of farmers left the racecourse at Ararat today to fight a bushfire — the…
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HOUSTON (Texas), Sunday.-- Fire swept an old tenement house two doors from a fire station…
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LONDON, Mon. (Extel.). --The liner impress of Canada (20,325 tons gross), aflame from bow to stern in a Liverpool floating dock, is doomed. At 9 a.m. today (Sydney time), a series of violent…
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LONDON, Tuesday (Kemsley).--Detectives have called in the forensic science director at…
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LONDON, Tues. (Kemsley). --Defectives have called in the forensic science director at the Home Office (Dr. J. B. Firth) to…
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LONDON, Tuesday (Kemsley).--Detectives have called in the forensic science director at…
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LONDON,Tues. (Kemsley): --Detectives have called in the forensic science director at the Home Office (Dr. J. B. Firth) to…
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LONDON, Tuesday (Kemsley). --Detectives have called in the forensic science director at…
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MORGAN CITY (Louisiana), Monday. --Firefighters have called for bazookas to shoot off…
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NEW YORK, Mon.--Flames visible for 50 miles billowed from a huge natural gas fire at Morgan City (Louisiana) early today…
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LONDON, Tues. (Kemsley). --Detective have called in the forensic science director at the Home Office (Dr. J. B. Firth) to…
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LONDON Tues. (Kemsley). --Detectives have called in the forensic science director at the Home Office(Dr. J. B. Firth) to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Antonio Martini Escapes Bid for Freedom by Gunmen Warders Fire On 4 Attempting Gael Break
Fired on by warders os he scaled a prison wail, notorious gunman Antonio Martini escaped from Parramatta Gaol this afternoon, hut he broke an ankle as he fell to the ground and was recaptured. Sidney Grant who shot a detective dead, and Teddie Garland. Who timed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Antonio Martini Escapes Bid for Freedom by Gunmen Warders Fire On 4 Attempting Gaol Break
Fired on by warders ashe scaled a prison wall,notorious gunman Antoni Martini escaped from Parramatta Gaol this afternoon, but he broke an ankle as he fell to the ground and was recaptured. Sidney Grant, who shot a defective dead, and Teddie Garland, who flensed…
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The burnt-out hulk ot the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Cunada lying on her side at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, on Monday morning. Firemen were still pouring water on the smouldering wreck yesterday…
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LONDON, Tues.--Pockets of fire were still blazing in the 20,000-tons liner…
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English actress Jessie Matthews arrived in Sydney yesterday to learn that all the scenery,…
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