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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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IN view of certain statements appearing in the press the committee of the R.S.L. and Servicemen's Club have been directed by the members to bring, to notice the facts concerning the erection of a Soldiers' Memorial in Sturt Park (Central Reserve) in respect of which an application was made to the City Council on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAY.—While a truck containing military personnel was returning to Hay from Victoria it struck a culvert near Booroorban…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, March 13.—Despatches from Greece assert that the country is heading for civil war. Other reports say that Bulgarian, Albanian and Yugoslav divisions are massed on Greece's northern frontier…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 13. — Marshal Stalin today described Mr. Churchill's speech at Fulton, United States of America, last week as a "call for war" against the Soviet Union. The speech was dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Now that the war is finished and we won't be confronted with new and dreadful injuries inflicted by the latest discoveries of science, we can look back and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When the War Service Land Settlement Bill waw going through the Legislative Assembly recently, Mr. S. T. Stephens (C.P. Byron), a returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, March 15.—Advertisements inserted by British Government Dapartment on the authority of the Duke of Gloucester have annoyed Australian war brides who are awaiting passages to Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The local War Security Loan will be launched at a meeting called by the Mayor (Ald. P. J. Rowe) from the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Auckland, March 17.—"I don't want to go to America. I want to be home," pretty 21 year old bloned Mrs. Gloria Schmidt, of Epson. Auckland, sobbed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York, March 17.—Mr. Winston Churchill, at a dinner in New York last night, given in his honor, denied that he wanted, or even intimated that he did, any condition other than the greatest concord with Russia. He expressed the belief and hope that no war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To the Editor, SirâIt was with surprise that I read in your columns the public statement made by the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, March 18.—The first prize in the War Veterans Art Union, a block of flats valued at £15,550 with a rental value of £34 per week. went to Mrs. A. Kerr, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NOTIFICATION has been received from the military that approval was given Bombardier Gordon A. Yuill, son…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir.—It is regrettable to see that the members of the R.S.L. and Returned Servicemens Club of this city are called upon to make a public statement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Darwin. March 19.—The torturing of British and Australian soldiers in Timor by Japanese soldiers was described in the War Crimes Court today by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ON Saturday the Pensions Officer of the Returned Servicemen's League (S.A. branch), Mr. B. A. Clarke, will arrive from Adelaide wim a view to advising and helping Diggers and their dependants…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, March 20.— The Nuremberg tribunal yesterday agreed to interrupt Goering's evidence to read, the testimony of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is from "Hansard": Mr. Sheahan: I ask the Minister for Lands whether it is a fact that, under the ratifies agreement between the Common…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To deal with all problems arising from disabilities suffered as a result of this or the last war by widowed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MEMBERSHIP of the Returned Soldiers' League in South Australia was now nearing the 50,000 mark, the Pensions Officer…
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