Anzac Park Citizens' Council Interest
After discussing a progress report on Anzac Park, Coffs Citizens' Council at last meeting decided to arrange for the filling and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
408 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 21
"Fratracidal War" Threatened
JERUSALE, Thurs.—Full-fledged "fratricidal war" will follow any attempt to oppose the Jewish terrorist organisation, Irgum Zvai Leumi. This threat was voiced by a…
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WASHINGTON, Thurs.—Mr. Winston Churchill and the late President Roosevelt are scathingly attacked in a book of memoirs called "Defeat in Victory," written by the former Polish Ambassador (M. Jan. Ciechanowski)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Tax Motley For Country Roads Need to Overtake War Damage
Pointing out that war traffic had caused a great deterioration in the condition of many country roads, and that the suspension of normal…
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BERLIN, Thursday.—A British soldier, F. J. Upson, R.A.S.C., has been hanged for the murder of a 60 years old German woman in…
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TOKIO, Friday.—While the trials of Japanese war criminals was proceeding in the Japanese War Ministry building the…
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ROME, Sun.—It is announced by a spokesman for the Allied forces at Caserta that two representatives of the Yugo-Slav…
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LISMORE, Monday.—The circumstances of the death of Ronald Cecil Simons, 21, a salesman, of High street, Lismore, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Honored for War Work Mr. Percy Lister Knighted
News has been received in Australia of the conferment of a knighthood on Mr. Percy Lister, Chairman of Directors of R. A. Lister &…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jap War Crimes Authority Of Tribunal Challenged By Defence
TOKIO, Mon.—Opening the defence phase in the trial of major Japanese war leaders, American and Japanese defence attorneys challenged General MacArthur's authority to create an international military tribunal…
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OTTAWA: More than 46,000 veterans have qualified for settlement under the terms of the Canadian Veterans' Land Act, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Honoured for War Work Knighthood for Mr. Percy Lister
News has been received in Australia of the conferment of a knighthood on Mr. Percy Lister, Chairman of Directors of R. A. Lister & Company…
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NANKING, Fri.—The United States announcement that it has ended its peace efforts in China has removed another barrier, however slight, to an all-out…
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It was stated at a conference of the Australian Transport Advisory Council held recently in Melbourne, that statistics had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extension Sought War Powers Act
WASHINGTON, Tuesday. — A request for an extension of parts of the Second War Powers Act, in order to retain controls over…
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CHICAGO, Wed.—An attack on Justice Sir William Webb and his colleagues on the Tokio War Crimes Tribunal as partial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German War Seeds Being Sown— British M.P.
LONDON, Thurs.—"We are piling up by our muddle, our mismanagement and our good intentions, the seeds of a third German war," said a Conservative (Mr. Richard Law) opening the Commons debate on Germany. "The problem of Germany is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Issue Of War Medals
SYDNEY, Friday.— Approximately 980,000 war medals will be isued in Australia to former members of the three fighting…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—A young married woman, Jean Gill, 21, of Military road, Horsley Park, was admitted to hospital in a critical…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers Killed In Motor Cycle Crash
SYDNEY, Sun.—Two returned soldiers were killed when a motor cycle on which they were returning to Wingham from Taree early…
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