Order to Kill All Jews in Russia General’s Admission At War Crimes Trial Australian Associated Press
Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4
NUREMBERG, January 4.— Major-General Otto Ohlendorf told the War Crimes Tribunal to-day that when the German attack on Russia was launched special S.S. men were attached to the German Army with orders to kill every Jew…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bogus Soldier in Trouble Feigned Malaria
Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3
NEWCASTLE Friday— A man who feigned malaria and pretended that he was a returned soldier got into trouble at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ammunition Train Blows Up 11 British Soldiers Killed
Singleton Argus · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3
Eleven British soldiers were killed and four injured when a series of explosions occurred in trucks of an ammunition train…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia’s -War Effort in Borneo
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1
MELBOURNE sat —bright Chapter in Australian war effort, will close on January 10, when the British south —East Asia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Mary To Carry War Brides
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2
NEW YORK Jan 4 — The [?] Queen many having completed her ninth last Atlantic crossing since V.E Day as a troop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Escaped From Greta Italian Prisoner Of War
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2
Yesterday afternoon, an Italian prisoner of war escaped from Greta military camp. He had been In custody there with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Soldiers Demonstrate
Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 3
MANILA Jan. 7.—Military police broke up a crowd of several thousand angry American soldiers marching on GHQ on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder of Australian Soldiers Accused Japs Ordered to Stand in Silence
Singleton Argus · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2
Five Japanese officers accused of murdering Australian soldiers were ordered to stand in silence for their victims at Ambon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transfer to Civilian Jobs Soldiers' Organisations Perturbed
Singleton Argus · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 3
Returned soldiers' organisations are perturbed about the chances of Servicemen being rapidly absorbed into industry in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stroud Welcome Home
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3
A record crowd filled the Stroud School of Arts on the 15th December to extend a welcome home to Corporal Fitzsimmons, Private Dee and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome Home At Denman
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2
DENMAN, Tuesday. —Arrangements are well in hand for a “bumber” dinner and social to welcome home the discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian War Cemeteries
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1
The following Australian war cemeteries have been established:— Middle East: El Alamein, Halfaya, Salum, Tobruk, Acroma, Benghazi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Singleton’s War Loan Effort
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4
SINGLETON Tuesday.— Commander Marks addressed a gathering of-War Loan officials and business representatives at a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rumours of War with Turkey Denied Australian Associated Press
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1
LONDON, January, 8. — The Soviet news agency, quoted by Reuter, denied rumours which the French newspaper, Paris Matin, is allegedly spreading that Russia bas declared war on Turkey. This [?] alleged that fights…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goering Curses Ss at War Criminals’ Trial Australian Associated Press
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1
January 8.—Flushed with anger, and customary mocking smile, Gorging cursed Genera Zelewski and called him “a dirty dog and a traitor” when the witness was given damning evidence incrementing the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers and National fitness (To the Editor)
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4
Sir,—The mails have arrived, and as usual I received my copies of your paper, the "Eagle," from the folks at home in Cessnock. The transport…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discontented American Soldiers
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3
Mr. Hal Boyle, Manilla correspondent with Associated Press of America, says: "Going home has developed into a mental epidemic and is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Falls 80 Feet. Fatality at Military Hospial. Sydney
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2
Sergeant Frank Arthur Cox (32), A. I. F., was Killed instantly last night when he fell 80 feet from a window of a ward at the Yaralla Military…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Demonstrate At Manila
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3
MANILA January 8.—Twelve thousand protesting soldiers packed the shell-battered ruins of the Philippines’ Hall of Congress…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Largs Soldier Entertained
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3
At a party organised by the Largs School of Arts committee, Private Ron Knox was entertained by the citizens of Largs Patriotic…
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