SERIOUS BUSH FIRES
OUTBREAK IN VICTORIA Kec. 11 a.m. MELBOURNE, Jan. 10. More than 40. houses, a public hospital, and a hotel were destroyed at the weekend in one of the most serious outbreaks of bush fires in Victoria since 1939. Hundreds of miles of forests, grassland, and fencing have been destroyed, and thousands of animals burned to death, but only one man has been reported seri6usly injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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