War Honor Victims
Rome, March 15 — The bodies of 335 Italians shot by German tommy gunners in caves near the Appian…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1949
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Negroes Plan Welcome Home Ifor Governor
London, March 16.—Bands and calypso singers —singing "Dat Good Man"—and great crowds of jubilant Negroes will greet Lord Baldwin when he returns to his post as Governor of the Leeward…
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Canberra—Australia is now paying nearly £20 million a year—a record —in war and service…
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Canberra. — The possibility of war had decreased in the past year, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said in the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SOLDIER SEtTLEMENT Government to Resume Land
Sydney, March 16.—The Leg Assembly today agreed to the resumption of two estates end part of two estates, for estates settlement, totalling 61,510 acres…
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Tokio, (A.A.P.-Renter) March 17.— An American army sergeant of Fihpino descent has been refused permission by the Australian immigration officials to…
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San Francisco, March 23. Admiral Louis Derifeld, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, said that he did not believe that another war would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Atlantic Pact Warmly Praised "Greatest Deterrent To War Ever"
Washington, March 23. — Atlantic Pact nations will meet any future aggressor "with all the force needed to beat him to his knees." Announcing this today the Republican Foreign Policy Leader (Senator Vandenberg) said the treaty…
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Melbourne. March 24.—Members of the citizens military forces and volunteer defence corps who attended training camp during the war and who were not…
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Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Govorov blamed the present world tension on the "provocative policy of…
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London, March 27. War in Europe in the next six months is a definite possibility. Whether it is also a probability depends largely on a secret conference to be held any day now in the…
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Vienna, March 27. Russian sen tries knocked down, struck and kicked two British army Corporais outside the Russian occupied Hotel…
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Prague, March 29.— A[?] American soldier was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with hard labor, and another to ten years, after a secret…
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Rome, March 30.—By 188 votes to 122 the Italian Senate carried a vote of confidence in the Prime Minister, Alcide De Gasperi, thus putting the Chamber's seal of approval on Italy's participation in the Atlantic Pact. The Communists immediately submitted a motion demanding that Italy…
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London, March 31.—Dutch shipping lines have opened a freight war against British and Indian shipping companies on the Eastern route. They announced today that…
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London, March 31.—Sir Stafford Cripps told Parliament yesterday that payments made by the War Damage Commission up to the end…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier's Blocks and Adequate Maintenance Mr. Dedman and Mr. Sheahan Disagree
Canberra, March 29.—Determinations that no commonwealth money would be spent on Soldiers blocks which did not provide an adequate maintenance area…
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Mr. J. T. Donovan, chairman of the Zinc N.B.H. Athletic Club, presided over a well attended meeting at the football clubrcoms on Thursday night…
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London.—The belief that R.A.F. combat crews in the war were fearless dare-devils thirsting for action is all wrong, according to a medical report by a psychologist, Dr. David Stafford-Clark, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Falls on Stock Exchange Weakest Day Since Before The War
Sydney, April 1. — The Sydney Stock Exchange today experienced its weakest market since before the war. Heavy falls occurred in a number of leading industrial stocks, carrying the index to more than 13 points below the year's…
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