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Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 125

Red officials under fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 3

MOSCOW, Mon. (A.P., B.U.P.).--Officials in charge of the campaign to step up Russian agricultural production were attacked at the weekend in a report of the central…

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Red officials under fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 4

MOSCOW, Mon. (A.P., B.U.P.).--Officials in charge of the campaign to step Russian agricultural production were attacker at the weekend in a report of the central…

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Red officials under fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 3

MOSCOW, Mon. (A.P., B.U.P.).--Officials in charge of the campaign to step up Russian agricultural production were attacked at the weekend in a report of the central…

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Red officials under fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 3

MOSCOW, Mon. (A.P., B.U.P.).--Officials in charge of the campaign to step up Russian agricultural production were attacked at the weekend in a report of the central…

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£9000 Damage in Yenda Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 24

GRIFFITH, Mon. -- Damage estimated at £9000 was caused When fire gutted a modern…

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3 die in fire; puppy saves 4

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.--Three people died in a fire which destroyed a house…

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Three Perish As Fire Razes Melbourne Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday. —T h r e e people were burned to death when fire razed a cottage in Hill Place, Kensington, Melbourne, early to-day…

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Watchman Fires Revolver Shots

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 16

A nightwatchman who had arrested two men at revolver point in a soft drink factory at Newtown…

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Watchman Fires at Burglars

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 7

A watchman, Roy Chapel, King St., Newtown, last night shot at and probably wounded a…

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Watchman Fires at Burglars

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 5

A watchman, Roy Chapel, King St., Newtown, last night shot at and probably wounded a…

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Stop Press Phone: M2406 Watchman Fires at Intruder

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 24

An [?] at one of two men who [?]. Last night in [?] drink factory Erskineville…

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Fire Damages Offices At Camperdown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 6

Fire last night caused minor damage to the offices of A. F. Agnew and Co. Pty. Ltd., in Parramatta Road,…

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8 men faint in ship blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

Seven men and a ship's officer collapsed while fighting a fire today in the hold of the British freighter, Orestes, at…

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8 men faint in ship blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

Seven men and d ship's officer collapsed while fighting a fire today in the hold of the British freighter, Orestes, at…

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Coroner's inquiry into fire fires at Granville Man for Trial on One Charge of Arson

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 5

The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. Hawes) today committed a man for trial on a charge of having maliciously set fire to a bag an dsome fruit…

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Inferno at Walsh Bay 8 men faint in ship blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

Seven men and a ship's officer collapsed while fighting a fire today in the hold of the British freighter, Orestes, at…

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Battle to Save Cargo 8 men faint in ship blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

Seven men and a ship's officer collapsed while fighting a fire today in the hold of the British freighter, Orestes, at…

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Inferno at Walsh Bay 8 men faint in ship blaze

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

Seven men and a ships officer collapsed while fighting a fire today in the hold of the British freighter, Orestes, at…

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Confession Claimed "Must be a rat" story on fires

The Sun · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 11

A man told police who were investigating a Granville fire that he must "have been a rat", a witness said in Burwood Court today…

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Police deny threats used on arson suspect Court Inquiry Into Fires at Granville

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 5

A barrister at Burwood Coroner's Court today asked a detective if he had said during an interrogation of a man charged…

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