War Crimes Trials, Nearing End
Nuremberg, August 27.—Chief Justice Lawrence announced that the war crimes trials are expected to end next Saturday, after which tho court will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1946
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Allied POWs Left To Die In Cells Jap War Criminals On Trial
Singapore, August 27.—Allied prisoners were in the Outram prison camp at Singapore were told to hurry and die as the only medicine available had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prisoner of War Who Married Heiress Is Son of N.s.w Miner
SYDNEY. — The miner-father of a former Cessnock milkman, who married an Austrian heiress last year after meeting her when a prisoner of war, retires from work at Abermain No. 2 colliery next month on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Settlement Additional Blocks in Western Division
My colleague, the Minister for Lands. Mr. Dunn has conveyed to me the pleasing information that an additional 18 grazing areas in the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Palace Hotel Not Now Soldiers Hostel Transferred To S.A. Brewing Company
The Palace Hotel, which has been perhaps better known for 20 years as the Soldiers Hostel, because the local branch of the RSSAILA had its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Welcome Home
Last week-end a welcome home party was held at the Tramway Hall by Mrs. A. M. Griffith for her five returned A.I.F. sons, Bob. Gavan, Russell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tyres Will Still Be Short 30 P.C. Above Pre-war Price
Sydney, September 1.—Limited quantities of tyres of all types will be available for immediate sale tomorrow (Monday), when controls imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dealing with Jap War Criminals
MELBOURNE.—Most of the Japanese responsible for crimes against Australian P.O.W. have already been arrested and many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Civil War" in Philippines
MANILA, September 3.— Manila newspapers says the Philippines are in the throes of a civil war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Gratuities for Parents
Canberra, September 2.—Aged parents of deceased members of the forces are to be paid war gratuities immediately, announced the Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Talk Is Increasing— Not Officially
NEW YORK, September 3.— Most striking fact in Washington today is that war talk is increasing while America's ability…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Miner Wednesday, September 4 1946 War Threat Dramatised
RELATIONS between the great Powers have become so strained since the close of the war in the Pacific that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News From Menindee Big Welcome Home Function
Plans finalised, and carefully re-checked against the possibility of even the minutest detail being overlooked, the Welcome Home Committee are tackling the task of decorating and preparing the hall. A week of hard work is ahead of those who are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers' Treatment
This week two Wilcannia ex-servicemen had reason to complain of treatment meted out to them by the Repatriation and Western Lands…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Presentation Of War Loan Honor Pennants To South Employees
A SOCIAL DANCE was held at the Town Hall on Saturday night when employees of-the South mine, together with their families, celebrated the winning of two honor pennants for their outstanding response to the Fourth Victory Loan and the Security…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Major Cousens Denies Treason Charges Graphic Story Of Jap Flogging Of Ausn. Soldier
SYDNEY. — At the resumed hearing of the treason charge against Major Charles Hughes Cousens, A.I.F., at the Central Police Court today, Cousens denied on oath the Crown allegations that he committed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russia Takes Credit For Pacific War
LONDON, September 10.— Russia, not the atomic bomb, ended the Pacific war, according to a Moscow radio…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Public or Private? Hanging Of War Criminals
London, September 10. — British opinion is fiercely divided on the question of whether Nazis condemned to death at Nuremberg should be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Dash Planned To Relief Of Soldier On Murder Charge
LONDON, September 10.—A private plane owned by Mr. Candar Dower, M.P. for Caithness and Sutherland, stands ready at a Scottish airport to take off at a moment's notice on a 1000-mile errand of mercy to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →30,000 Soldiers In Chapels Pray For Child's Recovery
NEW YORK, September 11.— Thirty thousand soldiers at Lee Camp (Virginia) knelt in the 10 chapels and the grounds of the…
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