VICTORIAN OUTBREAKS
HOUSES, HOSPITALS, AHD HOTELS DESTROYED THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS TRAPPED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Rec. -11.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 10. _ More than 40 houses, public hospitals, and hotels were destroyed at the week-end in one of the most serious outbreaks of bush fires in Victoria since 1939. Hundreds of miles of forests, grassland, and fencing Has been destroyed and thousands of animals burned to death. Only one man has been reported seriously injured.
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Evening Star, Issue 25069, 10 January 1944, Page 2
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