British Soldier Killed In Palestine
JERUSALEM, Sun. (A.A.P.).—It is officially announced that unidentified attackers at dusk yesterday killed, by automatic fire, a British Army despatch…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
408 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 17 of 21
War Service Homes
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Commonwealth Director for War Service Homes (Mr. S. Lucas) announced to-day that it was…
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CANBERRA, Tues.—Fedaral Cabinet to-night approved the payment of a living allowance of [?]/6 a week to war widows with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Memorial For Bellingen?
BELLINGEN.—Bellingen R.S.L. at the September meeting, discussed the matter of a war memorial for world War H. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Widows' Rise Not Rise At All
MELBOURNE, Wed.—The 7/6 weekly rise in war widows' pensions was not a rise at all because cost of living had…
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CANBERRA, Wed.—The seeds of "a just and prolonged war" had been sown as a result of agreements made by Britain, U.S.A. and Russia at Yalta, Teheran and Moscow during the war, Mr. Beasley (Lab., W.A.) warned the House of Representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Shouldn't Have Fought In War
It was unnecessary for America to enter the actual fighting in the Second World War, and anyway she would never have been…
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Thirty members attended the monthly meeting of the local subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League, at whichthe President (Mr…
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SYDNEY, Fri.—The N.S.W. branch of the War Widows' Guild is supporting the protest by the Victorian Guild that the 7/6 per…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Civil War Feared In Korea
SEOUL (Korea), Sun. (A.A.P.)—South Korean political leaders, Syngman Rhee and Kimm Kui Six, declared to-day that civil…
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NEW DELHI, Sun. (A.A.P.).—India will train more than 1,000,000 soldiers in the United Provinces next year "to make…
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TRIESTE, Sun. (A.A.P.).—The American officer and two privates whom Yugo-Slavs took captive when they crossed the…
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Shirley Essex (7), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Essex. late of Carrington street, Grafton, suffered an incised wound to her…
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CANBERRA, Tues.—The Commonwealth Government has made no decision as to who should represent Australia at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dr. Evatt All Men Oppressed By Fear Of War
NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.).—"Fear of war oppresses men in every country to-day—fear not merely for their own safety, but…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Special homes for war widows with one child are being planned by the Minister for Housing (Mr. Lemmen). He said to-day he hoped to be able to erect them under the War Services Homes Act at a cost of £800 each…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—A competitor in a cycle race at the Six-Hour Day sports to-day was severely wounded when the starter's gun…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Troop Movement in India: Risk of War
NEW DELHI, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Indian Naval units, supported by aircraft, landed troops and tanks at Porbandar, on the Dathiawar Peninsula, says the London "Daily Telegraph's" New Delhi correspondent…
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BATAVIA, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter)—Indonesian soldiers at Pameungpeuk, West Java, have seized as prisoners of war, three Dutch soldiers who were aboard a United States aircraft which made a forced landing at an airstrip there on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communist Manifesto—Declaration Of War
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—The nine-nation Communist manifesto in Warsaw at the weak-end is "a declaration of war— an idealogical war," declared Dr. Fadhil Jamali, Foreign Minister of Iraq, speaking at Lake Success yesterday…
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