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Show 150 Saved From Sweeping Blaze Melbourne, Australia. One hundred and fifty men, women and children, who took refuge in the post office building at King Lake while the remainder re-mainder of the town was swept by a great bush fire, have been rescued after being surrounded by the flames for six hours. The story of the rescue is among the most thrilling in the annals an-nals of Australia. Hemmed in by the I flaming bush, the outlying buildings ! in the little town caught fire like tinder and the inhabitants fled to the post office, the most substantial structure struc-ture in the place. ' I |