Coff's Harbour Soldier Leaves Singapore
SYDNEY,Wed.--A further list of prisoners of war evacuated by hospital ship from Singapore includes:-…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
848 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 34 of 43
Grafton Soldier Witnesses Surrender Of Japanese
Captain Ivan Layton, A.I.F., personal staff captain and aide to General Sir Thomas Blarney, writing to his parents in Grafton, describes the surrender of the Second Japanese Army to the C. in C., General Blarney, at Morotai on Sunday,…
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LONDON, Friday.--More than 1000 additional German war criminals are now being hunted town by Allied authorities. The names of…
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SINGAPORE Friday. --Some prisoners of war in Java are still working under the Japanese. This is alleged by the Batavia…
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SINGAPORE, Sun.—At a press conference here the British War Minister, Mr Lawson, who is making a tour of the South-East…
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TOKIO, Sun.—The dramatic scene behind the royal moat and high grey walls of the Imperial Palace in the centre of Tokio in which Hirohito at his last meeting with his Ministers, ended a four-day struggle between opposing factions by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grafton Soldier Describes Experiences As P.O.W.
What the raising of the Union Jack meant to prisoners of war after the defeat of Japan is described by Pte. Richard Barnes,…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.--Trouble that developed in the Persian Gulf on the U.S. tanker Sheldon Clark had a sequel at Port Melbourne…
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SINGAPORE, Mon.--Australian officers and N.C.O.s were in the long line of grim released war prisoners who took part in the mass identification parade of Japanese war criminals in Siam at the biggest gaol in Bangkok last week…
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NEW YORK, Sept, 18.--Floto-foam, a revolutionary new buoyant material which made it possible in the Pacific theatre for…
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TOKIO, Mon.--In the next few days 23 Japanese war criminals, including General Tojo, will be moved from Yokohama to Omori--one of the camps in which Allied…
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NEW YORK, Mon.--With nearly 4,000,000 men already discharged, demobilisation of the Red Army is to be continued until the Russians' fighting force is about one-third of its wartime strength. This is Generalissimo Stalin's answer to United States…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blind, Armless Soldier Overcomes Difficulties
SYDNEY, Tues.—How a blind soldier, with both arms amputated below the elbow, taught himself to use a typewriter with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"A Bashing A Day," Says Soldier In Letter
Mrs. W. McCaughey, of Ryan street, South Grafton, has received a letter from her cousin, Pte. M. P. Brown, who has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Soldier Describes Life Of P.O.W.
Gunner E. C. Bishop, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bishop, of Oliver street, Grafton, who had been a prisoner of war of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Return War Loot to Owners
SHANGHAI, Wed.-- Japanese and German War loot, in Shanghai is to be seized, and later transferred to owners through the…
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CANBERRA, Wed.--The establishment of special military courts to try war criminals in Australia and Australian territories will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Presentation To Soldier Recalls Sailing History
During the week a presentation was made to a young soldier, Sergeant William Olson, of the second A.I.F., which brought to mind a pathetic incident in the maritime life of the New South Wales coast…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.--National military courts for the trial of War criminals are proposed in the War Crimes Bill, which passed all stages in the House of Representatives to-day. The Minister for Defence, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maclean Patriotic And War Committee
Mr. E. D. Munro, in the absence of Ald. E. J. Conroy, presided at a meeting of the Maclean Patriotic and War Emergency Committee…
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