Little Progress On War Memorial For Bellingen
BELLINGEN.—The public of Bellingen have progressed little further in the move for the provision of a war memorial for the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
408 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 21
Refusal To Pay Subsistence To Prisoners of War
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Country Party is expected shortly to launch a motion for the adjournment of the House…
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Banning of all except approved radio stations and a personal…
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CANBERRA, Wed.—Soldiers sentenced for A.W.L. offences after the end of the war might be released shortly and…
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CAPETOWN, Thursday.—Fearsome in war paint and monkey tails, and carrying assegais and hide-covered shields, 5000 Zulu youths and girls yesterday delighted and thrilled the Royal party with their performance of Zululand's greatest war dance—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Crimes Trial General Sought To Kill All Prisoners
RABAUL, Thursday.—Major-General Hirota, now on trial for his life on war crimes charges, passed for the killing of all prisoners of war held by Japan in 1945. General Imamura who will be tried later, was quite agreeable…
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TOKIO, Friday.—An Australian Military Court in Singapore sentesced five Japanese war criminals to death by hanging for participation in what was described as the "greatest mass murder in the Pacific war during the building of the Burma-Siam…
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RABAUL, Mon.—The case for the prosecution in the war crimes trial of Major-General Hirota finished to-day…
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WASHINGTON, Tues.—The State Department has disclosed that United States, Britain and Russia attempted unsuccessfully to bring Turkey into the war against Germany in 1943. THE disclosure was revealed…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—The State secretary of the R.S.L., Mr. J. R. Lewis, said, to-day that if the Waterside Workers' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Year's Gaol For Ex-Middle East Coloured Soldier
A married coloured man who pleaded guilty at the Grafton Quarter' Sessions yesterday to breaking into the home of Robert…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—At the annual conference of the Country Party to-day, Mr. Cutler (Orange) introduced the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letters To The Editor (Correspondence should be restricted to 250 words.) Hands Off Anzac Day
Sir,—While in Grafton I have been astounded to learn that it is proposed to Hold the "big day" of the Grafton Show on Anzac Day…
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MACLEAN, Friday.—That the Maclean branch of the Red Cross Society had given the Lower Clarence Hospital, Maclean, 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Step Away From War
WASHINGTON, Fri.—Financial aid by U.S. to Greece and Turkey would not be a step in the direction of war, but to the contrary, would be a step away from war…
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Grafton Sub-branch of the Australian Legion of Ex-servicemen and Women decided last night to support the proposal for…
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Sir,—May I be permitted to endorse all that Mr. C. A. Wilson, president of the Lismore R.S. League, says in his letter in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Taught World The Value Of Technical Training
COFF'S HARBOUR, Tues.—Mr. S. A. Broome, inspector of technical classes with the Technical Education branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Aid Training Of Returned Men
CANBERRA, Wed.—Film strips, [?]lms and other teaching aids will [?]e produced by the industrial Training Division of the…
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The principal feature of the April "Australian Journal" is the first instalment of a new three-part novel by Rett Rouget, former member of…
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