War Criminals Army Minister Issues Statement
Canberra, February 15. — Federal Cabinet has withheld temporarily a lengthy statement prepared by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis)…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1950
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More For War Widows
Canberra.—Legislation to increase pensions and allowances to former servicemen, war widows and their dependants will come before Parliament in the next session…
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Washington, February 17.— President Truman has called for a great moral crusade against organised crime in the U.S. He said the war had been followed…
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Sydney.—Robert Cairns (14), of Newcastle, was wounded by a rifle bullet which ricocheted off the water and struck him in the thigh…
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Tokio (AAP-Reuter). february 20.— Twenty-six Japanese war crimnal subject held at Sugamo prison in Tokio have been charged with the murder of…
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Washington, February 21.—A former Army sergeant (Arthur Jefferson) is claiming 100,000 dollars damages because Army surgeons "negligently" left an 18in…
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Canberra.—Japanese prisoners being held for alleged war crimes against Australians will be brought to trial as Quickly as possible, the…
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The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) has stated that the position of the majority of soldier settlers where assistance period under the war service land…
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The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) and that the [?] 100 flock rams by the [?] at Trangie for tree distribution cash year to soldier…
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The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) has announced that soldier settlers had broken the previous month's record repayment of their advances by over…
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Canberra.—"We lose more lives on the road than we do in war," the Minister for Transport (Mr. Beale) said…
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Ottawa, February 26.—All members of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission agree that in a long war to probably would not be possible to prevent…
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Canberra.—There were still 600 war-time evacuees in Australia, the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Holt) said on Friday. He could not…
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Canberra, February 26.—Extraordinary delays in trials of Japanese suspected war criminals some of whom are still held in prison without trial…
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Lieut-General Curtis Le May commanding general of the U.S. Strategic Air Command said recently that if atomic…
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Washington. February 26.—President Truman told his weekly press confidence here that he saw no reason for a new direct approach to Russia to end…
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Mr. Austen Brown has been informed that his client (Eric David Boland) drew a West Bend block in the Talawanta sub-division, near…
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Mr. M. Austen Brown has received advice that his client. Eric David Doland. was successful in drawing West Bend block in the Talawanta subdivision, near…
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London. February 28. —"Secret plans" for rerenting Britain's airliners should war start in South-East Asia have been made by the Air Ministers…
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Melbourne.—The conference of the Legion of Ex-Servicemen was told today that war widows were visited at midnight and their homes…
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