Plan For Country Legacy Wards the War Orphans
Speed provision is being made for country children whose future is being shaped by Legacy Club. Recently Legacy has undertaken a…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1946
609 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 20 of 31
War Service Land Settlement First Resumed Estate Available for Application
It is with great pleasure I am able to announce to the many readers of "The Western Grazier" that my colleague, the Minister for Lands, Mr. Dunn, has advised me that blocks on "Fairview" Estate, the first of the acquired properties sub-divided for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Given Drug Before Making Statements Allegation Against Randwick Military Hospital
Sydney, July 25.—Officials of the Returned Soldiers' League have stated that patients at Randwick Military Hospital art given injections of odium pentothal known as "The Truth Drug" and have then signed statements taken from them while under its influence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tibooburra Holds "Welcome Home"
Following a cricket match this afternoon, Tibooburra will hold its "Welcome Home" dinner for ex-servicemen and women this evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German War Plants Producing For Russians Says American Press
Berlin, July 26.—It has been reliably reported from the Russian occupied zone that former German war plants are producing war material for the Russians in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dramatic Protest by Ex-soldier
WELLINGTON (N.Z.).—There was a dramatic scene in the House of Representatives when immediately after the Speaker…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Regarded As War Scare Atom Bomb Test
London, July 26.—The atom bomb test is a factor in the current war care in many countries, particularly American, and the scare is not doing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Sentence Is Demanded for All German War Leaders
LONDON, July 28.—Death for all the Nazi leaders on trial at Nuremberg was demanded by the British prosecutor (Sir Hartley Shawcross) in his final address. The defendants were charged as common murderers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Atlantic Burial for Aust. Soldier
NEW YORK, July 28. — The ashes of Harold Ivan Silver, 50, who was reported to have served with the Australian Army in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Zinc Corporation's Record of War Froduction Fight Against Dwindling Manpower More Men Becoming Available For Development Programme
ZINC Corporation Ltd's. concentration on vital production of metals in the war years at the expense of development work and the present increasing return of men to the company's employment are features of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →20,000 U.s. Deaths in War Crimes
WASHINGTON, July 30.—In complete returns snowed that at least 23,038 U.S. servicemen and 595 U.S. civilians had been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Petrol Than Pre-war Rationing And Its Cost
Canberra, July 30.—Despite rationing at an estimated yearly cost of £240,000. Australia today is using more petrol than before the war. The average monthly consumption of petrol during the five years ended in 1945 was 25 million gallons and this has been exceeded in the past twelve months…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two New Cars Post-war Vauxhalls Rolling Off Production Lines
First post-war cars to come off the assembly line at the Fishermen's Bend plant of General Motors-Holden's Ltd. are the 14 H.P. British Vauxhall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taxi Driver Wounded Boy Of 15 Charged
Newcastle, August 1.—As a sequel to a reported attack on a taxi driver, a boy of 15 years was today charged in the Children's Court, Newcastle, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Most Interesting War Role Of B.H. Born Soldier
A man who had a more interestling role than most in the recent war, Mr. D. A. Turner, arrive from Sydney on Wednesday to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldiers Presentations Wallets Are Much Admired
On Friday night the Welcome Home Committee presented to the men of the district, who served in the war the wallets which marked the appreciation of the town and district for their services. Powder compacts, suitably engraved, were presented to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communist Claim in China War
Nanking. August 2.—The Communist New China Newsagency claimed that Communist forces on July 27 annihilated one division of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ex-Servicemen Blow Up Gaol In Tennessee "Civil War"
NEW YORK, August 4.—In a one-day county election revolt ex-servicemen in Munroe and McMinn Counties, Tennessee, fought knife and gun battles in the streets, blew up the county gaol and declared themselves elected as county officials. Two men, one a deputy sheriff, were killed and more than 20 have been wounded in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Guilt Of Japs Is Proved
TOKIO, August 5.—The "carefully preserved fiction" that the Japanese Foreign Office was innocent by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lack of Homes Soldiers' Social Problem
Sydney, August 4.—The essential needs of ex-servicemen are homes and security in employment. This is set out in the annual report of the Returned Soldiers…
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