TOLL OF FIRES
VICTORIAN DAMAGE
CASES OF LOOTING
(Received March 15, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The damage done by the bush fires which swept Victoria on Wednesday! probably exceeds £300,000. Most of the fires are now under control. When the fire which destroyed most of Torquay was dying down, goods left on the roadways and in evacuated houses were looted. The police later visited a militia camp and took possession of some goods. More than 200 homes in Victoria were destroyed, tens of thousands Of sheep were lost, and hundreds of persons are homeless.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 8
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95TOLL OF FIRES Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 8
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