BRISBANE ENCIRCLED BY FLAMES
RANGES ABLAZE OVER WIDE AREA
SETTLERS' FIGHT TO SAVE HOMES.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Receivod 14th October, noon.)
BRISBANE, This Day
The bush 'fires' which are raging in the vicinity of Brisbane reached a climax when the city was encircled.by flames. The smoke was so thick that the sun at times, was almost obscured. Practically every range of hills and mountains within a radius of n"Ety miles is ablaze, lin many places the roads aro impassable owing to smoke and heat and fallen trees. The settlers had to fight hard to save their properties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 11
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