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FAILURE of Mr. Justice Dixon in his effort to mediate on the claims of Pakistan and India to Kashmir suggests how hollow is the agreement recently concluded, between those two divisions of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canberra, August 3l.—The demand for enlistment in the Australian permanent army was greater during August than any other month since…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cairo, August 31.—Three british soldiers, all in their twenties and whose mothers were specially flown from England and saw them for the last time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Athens, September 1.—A truce has been reported in the "Trojan war" between rival Cretan factions over the elopment of a pair of lovers. It was engineered by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tokio, September 1.—The North Koreans last night threw more men into the war's most dangerous offerrsive, which is reaching along a 55-mile front lit by gun flashes and a waning moon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Los Negros, September 1.—The War Crimes Court today acquitted one Japanese of murdering Australian and All[?]d prisoners of war Amlson in 1943, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tokio, September 1.—Fifty thousand tankled Communists today launched the biggest offensive of the Korean war with a furious onslaught on a 25 mile front against the west…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cairo, September 1.—Three British soldiers were hanged at Sayid, in the Suez Canal zone, early today. Their mothers had been specially flown from England and saw them for the last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cairo, September 1.—Three British soldiers were hanged at Sayid, in the Suez Canal zone, early today. Their mothers had been specially flown from England and saw them for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney.—The Minister fer Lands (Mr. Renshaw) has issued to former servicemen a reminder about the definite restrictions on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Members of the Duchess Supply Planning Committee discussed Australia's more active entry into the Korean war at a conference in Melbourne. From left: Brigadier A. B. Wilson, Controller of Army Supplies and Development; Air Commodore, F. R. W. Scherger, Deputy Chief of Air Staff; Capt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York, September 3.—Prison sentences of up to 12 years were given in Yugoslavia to four men convicted for spying in Russia. In…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London, September 3:—Prime Minister Attlee announced in a broadcast last night that orders had been given to prevent the disclosure of military secrets to Russian inspectors in British factories. But he declared it had never been his Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne—In many cases Saturday was the last day on which former servicemen could claim Government loans under the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tokio (A.A.P.-Reuter) September 4:—Two war correspondents were attacked and wounded in a guerilla machine gun ambush on a mountain road in South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Los Negros (A.A.P.-Reuter), September 4.—The Japanese In Timor had made Australian prisoners of war carry heavy signal equipment into. action and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bonn, September 6.—At least 30 plants in the Russian zone of Germany are turning out war goods—tanks, planes, munitions, guided—missiles and even…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Washington, September 6.—The Defence Department said today that 8863 American casualties in the Korean war has been reported to the next of kin up to September 1. This was an increase of nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Los Negros, September 8.—In a spirit of revenge for Japanese casualties in the fighting for Ambon and Pahang airfield in February, 1942, the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney.—If a war broke out the Allies would have to win it in the earliest stages General George Kenny, of the United…
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