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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
465 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 14 of 24
WHEN war was declared on Germany so many years ago now, I had just finished a service in Balaklava, a town in South Australia. The name Itself is a constant reminder that war visits nations, for It tells us of a famous Crimean battlefield. As we…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, June 23.— British troops, armed with bayonets, will help German police to break black market rings of German farmers whose activities have helped to put the British zone ration below the danger level, says- the Hanover correspondent of the "NewsChronicle."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne, June 24.—The Broken Hill Ply., Ltd., today issued its first production report since the commencement of the war. The report…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, June 26 — Sicilian brigand Salvatore Giuliano is taKing a hand in politics and has dcclattid war on tne Communists…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PERTH.— A homeless veteran oi World War 1, aged 54, and his 48-year-old wife and son (19) have been sleeping since Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"OUR only chance to avoid open war with the Soviet Union is to organise the world's free peoples to resist Soviet imperialism. Time is running out against us." So warns William C. Bullitt, former Ambassador to Russia and France, in The Reader's Digest for July. The article is condensed from the American Mercury…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOME hope of a new deal for war widows has appeared. The Minister for repatriation is to discuss the subject with officials…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"I am led up with war," said one of the greatest soldiers in history, It was Viscount Montgomery who used those words yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney. June 30—The first prize in the War Veterans Art Union, No. 9. a £15,500 block of flats [?] Kurraba Point with £26 weekly return [?] was won…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Darwin, June 30—Field Marshal Vicount Montgomery was given a tumultous welcome to Australia when he arrived at Darwin. Alter a long journey by plane he stepped from the aircraft late this afternoon looking well, but tired. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jerusalem. June 30. — The Jewish terrorists attacked and wounded three British soldiers and one officer on a bearch near Herzlia. north of Tel Aviv…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canberra, July 2. — "I know of no country in the world that wants another war," said Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to pressmen today. "If any notion wanted war I doubt whether it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY—Sister Ellen Savage, the only woman survivor of the hospital ship Centaur, which was torpedoed off the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—The Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Barnard), yesterday' refused to comment on the decision of Victorian war…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A graphic picture of England in peace time as bad as the England of war time is related by a British migrant and her two children who arrived in Broken Hill to settle last Wednesday evening. She is Mrs. Daly and with her are her two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nanking. July 4.—China's State Council today approved at the personal request of Chlang Kai Shek a Kuominatang Government Party) resolution calling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, July 4.—Seven out of nine British housewives interviewed declared that they were worse off than before the war. The housewives were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canberra, July 3.—Australia's exports for the 1946-47 trade year will be the greatest in the country's history. The total its expected to approach £250…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARIS, July 6.—A strike of civil servants including police, threatened for Thursday, may paralyse the Anglo-French Marshall aid Europe plan conference this week end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.).—A band of soldiers, armed with beer bottles, charged cells in which two men were imprisoned…
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