Japs Sentenced For War Crimes
MELBOURNE.— Two more Japanese war criminals who. committed. atrocities against Australian P.O.W's. have been…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1948
397 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 20
Chinese Government Buys War Equipment
New York, January 2.—According to the New York "Herald Tribune" the Chinese airforce has bought 150 troop-carrying Curtiss C46 aircraft from War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia Not In East-Asia Concept Tojo Tells War Court
Tokio (A.A.P.—Reuter). January 2.—Australia was not included in the Greater East Asia concept, Hidski Tojo told the International Military Tribunal…
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JERUSALEM, January 2.— Arab gunmen shot dead another British Army corporal who was manning a road block on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Effect On Japanese Of Tojo's Statement Young Men Believe War Forced On Them
Tokio (A.A.P.-Reuter). January 4.—"The majority of young men still believe the war as General Tojo declared in an affidavit, was forced upon the country,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Shipment of T.N.T. SEIZED Believed Intended For Use In Anti-Jew War
Jersey City, January 4.—Seventy-seven freight cases, two of which were found to contain 5,000 lb of T.N.T., were towed to Gravesend Bay. Two cases comprise are in which a cooper found the T.N.T. and one which was opered by police. They…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →India May Enter Pakistan War Tension Growing After Indian Declaration
New Delhi, January 5.—Pandit Nehru's declaration that India in self-defence might be compelled to enter Pakistan, has created something approaching the eve of war tension in Lahore, says the Lahore correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Atom Bomb War's Best Kept Secret
THE fantastically detailed system of precautions and checks guarding the war-time development of the atom bomb is termed history's greatest secrecy campaign by Thomas M. Johnson in the "Reader's Digest" for December. The article is condensed from "Foreign Service." K…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Talking Book Machine Aid To War Blind
Launceston, January 6.—Talking book machines for blinded ex-servicemen of the last two world wars would be provided by the Repatriation Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tojo Says Japan Knew Pact Might Bring War
Tokio (AAP-Reuter's), January 6.—Japan knew her alliance with Germany and Italy might lead to war with the United States and Great Britain, General…
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LAUNCESION. — Taiking book machines for blinded ex-servicemen of the last two world wars are to be provided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lost First World War Shrapnel
MELBOURNE— After 29½ years, the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Pollard)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tojo Admits Advised Emperor To Declare War
Tokio, Jan. 7.—(AAP-Reuter).—Hideki Tojo stepped down from the witness stand at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East today after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Singapore War Graves Said to Be Neglected
Singapore (A.A.P.-Reuter), January 7.—Residents of Singapore have again protested to the newspapers against the condition of Woodlands War Cemetery,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local War Graves
The secretary of the Imperial War Graves Commission has written to the City Council advising of the permanent construction proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tried To Defraud Repatriation Ex-Soldier Gaoled
Sydney, January 9.—An ex-serviceman who attempted to obtain money from the Repatriation Commission by posing as a dead naval man was today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"God Save The King" Brawl Between Soldier And Communist
Brisbane January 9.—Because a Communist refused to stand up when the National Anthem was being played an ex-soldier objected and a fight followed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Doubts About War Canoe
AUCKLAND (N.Z.).— Northern Maoris decided to build a war canoe for the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser). They selected two forest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wanted His War Gratuity in Advance; Fails
SYDNEY— A man usuccessfully asked Mr. Justice Owen in the Supreme Court to help, him obtain early payment of his war gratuity…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Soldiers Morally Rotting in Japan" Official Silence
SYDNEY.— The commander of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan (Lieut-General Robertson) and the Chambers) refused to comment on a charge made last night the Federal president of the Legion of Ex-Seryice Men and Women (Mr. B J. McDonald) that 8,000 Australian soldiers are "morally rotting in Japan…
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