War Crime Acquittal
Los Negros, October 19—The Australian War Crimes Court discharged General Masataka Yamawaki, former Japanese…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1950
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Forms For War Servicemen
Sydney.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw) has announced that four farms on "Maryvale" Estate, near Boorowa, have been made…
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New York, October 18.—The British Minuter of State, Kenneth Younger, thinks that the Soviet Union is unlikely to be deliberately planning a world war…
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Los Negros, October 20.—Japanese killed and mutilated Australian prisoners of war in a "drunken orgy" in Tumer in 1942, the War Crimes Court was told…
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Lieut.-Gen Sir Edmund Herring is the man with the job of getting men to fight for Australia when Australia needs them. He tackles this job like the other big…
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Canberra—The Government will pay endowment for children of British defence personnel on loan to the Australian services…
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Lake Success, October 24:—Germany again had become the "hearth for kindling a new war" Russia's Foreign Minister, Andrei Vishinsky, yesterday told the United Nations. Vishinsky's statement was made during a bitter tirade against the…
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Tokio, October.—Australian troops in north-west Korea suffered casualties today, when they fought a savage 15-hours battle with North Koreans along the Taeryong River…
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Sydney. — A former G.I., seriously ill in Chicago, will have a box of early season, Australian cherries at his bedside tonight…
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London, October 26.—A wolf and a soldier fought to the death in the Italian mountains in a battle on a lonely path near…
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UNITED Nations Day has been celebrated in non-member South Korea with greater understanding of UN's purposes than in any of the organisation's 60 members. South Korea is a free, republic, and South Koreans are free…
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Sydney.—High tribute to the courage of Cpl. Ernest Dawson of Box Hill, Victoria, was paid by the Mayor of flood-bound…
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Los Negros (A.A.P.-Reuter), October 30.—After a "mere sham" of a trial the Japanese murdered an Australian signals officer and sentenced another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bourke Land Board Eight Soldiers Blocks
The Local Land Board (W. J Stagg chairman, C. P. Moxham, Member) at Bourke on October 26, dealt with eight Soldiers Blocks and made the…
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Tokio, October 31.—Only a large-scale United Nations attack could determine the Chinese Communist strength in the north of the peninsula, Major General Edward Almond said in Korea today…
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Canberra, November 1.—War gratuity payments due on March 3, will be paid into bank accounts of persons entitled if they so desire, Mr. Fadden said. He…
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Canberra.—Former sevicemen's gratuities to be paid next March would not be subject to income tax, the Minister for Social…
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Washington, November 1.—Britain's Defence Minister Emanuel Shinwell in an address here to the National Press Club said there was no evidence that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Memory of U.s. Soldier
A highway bridge in the State of Maryland was recently dedicated to the memory of Corporal John C. Brown, first United States soldier from Maryland to be killed in action in Korea…
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Canberra. — The Treasurer, Mr. A. W. Fadden, announced that war gratuities due for payment on March 3, 1951 would be paid…
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