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ENLISTMENT of civilians in the Permanent Military Forces is to begin on Monday, August 18, while enlistment of serving members has already begun. The terms of enlistment in the first instance are for periods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY—At the Redfern Police Court today the Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Condon, alleged that an argument over, three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA—The Acting-Minister for Post-War Reconstruction, Mr. R. T. Pollard, has announced that facilities for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Acting Minister for Port War Reconstruction. Mr. R, T. Pollard, said recently that facilities for training under the Commonwealth Reconstruction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tokio, August 13 (A.A.P. Reuter).— Twenty-one-year-old N.S.W. soldier Private Mervyn William Allan, of the 65th Australian Infantry Brigade has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BEGINNING its season at the Ozone Theatre tonight is another British success, "Perfect Strangers," starring…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne, August 15.—A mass meeting of war widows in Sydney is being arranged by the president of the War Widows Craft Guild of Victoria. Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nanking, August 15.—Government forces appear to be on the verge of a major victory in Shantung Province where the Communist forces have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THESE THREE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN serving Army men were the first to volunteer for the post-war Permanent Military Forces. They are (from left) Sergeant H. Sloan, Warrant-officer D. A. J. Robinson, and Sergeant B. Phillipson. Sworn in on Monday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York, August 20—There was an upset in the second round of the men's doubles when Seymour Greenberg (Chicago) and Vic Seixas (Philadelphia)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More than two thousand, years ago. Hippocrates fought cancer with knife and fire. Today, medical men are infinitely better equipped to combat this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Industrial Court yesterday before Mr. E. A. Barker, Conciliation Commissioner. some discussion arose between the parties to the Liquor Trades…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, August 22—If the Security Council refrains from ordering the Indonesian Republic to cease present hostilities "by which they violate the Council's cease fire order", there con be no doubt that Dutch "police action" will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Washington, August 23.—The U.S. State Department announced today that 12 Army transports, carrying about £6½ million worth of military supplies, had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne. August 23—There is a greater shortage of ships today than at any time since the end of the First World War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tokio, August 25—A total of 750 Japanese charged with war crimes were tried under Australian jurisdiction up to August 5. and of that number…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, August 27.—The great nations were spending nearly one-third of their national incomes in preparing for war, Sir John Boyd-Orr told the World…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Montreal August 26.—The world now faces the threat of a third world war just as vividly as it faced the second world war in the late 1930's, the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London. August 27.—Quoting Prague Radio. Reuter says that the Czechoslovakian Government has sent troops against "The Benderovei," described as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lahore, August 28—Officials estimate that about 100,000 Moslems have been killed in East Bengal in the Dominion of India since rioting began ten days ago. They base this estimate on refugees' reports. Sikh leaders state that Sikh and…
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