Film to Encourage Army Enlistment a Washout
The special cinema shown in the Drill Hall last night to aid recruiting for the Interim Army was a washout. Only four men were…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
920 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 46
Accused Of Seeking New War
MOSCOW, Jan. 22—M. Alexandrov, Head of the Communist Party’s Pragaganda Administration. told, told a Moscow gathering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diplomatic Tug-of-war in Persia
TEHERAN—(Associated Press) —A diplomatic tug-o-War in which the U.S. Ambassador John Allen appears at the moment to have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrorist Threat Of ”Fratricidal War” In Palestine
JERUSALEM, January 23. — Full-fledged “fratricidal war” will follow any attempt to oppose the Jewish terrorist organisation Irgun Zvai Leumi. This threat was voiced by a woman announcer on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truman’s End of Hostilities Did Not End All War Powers
WASHINGTON—(Associated Press)—When President Harry S. Truman announced the United States had terminated hostilities on December 31 with its enemies, he discarded 18 war-time powers granted the American Government and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Hanged for Murder
BERLIN, Jan. 23.—The first British soldier to be executed [?]verseas since the end of the war is an RASC driver, F. J. Upson,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Honored for War Work
News has been received in Australia of the conferment of a knighthood on Mr. Percy Lister, Chairman of Directors of R. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Contractors Charged with Conspiracy
WASHINGTON, January 24.—A Federal Grand Jury, has indicted a former member of Congress and three war contractors on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Narrow Escapes in War Dump Explosion
BRISBANE, Friday.—When a dump of high explosives blew up at the Darra depot, near Brisbane, firemen had narrow escapes from flying ferments. All horses in the area were evacuated under police orders…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Taught Farmers Effective Bunny Blitz
A Denman farmer, Mr. C. E. M. Woodford, of Chantry, considers that the Army taught him at least one useful subject, namely, how to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Contractors Charged. Alleged Conspiracy. Washington
The Attorney-General, Mr. Clark, has announced that the Federal Grand Jury has indicted ex-Representative Andrew May, Democrat (Kentucky)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Honoured for War Work Knighthood for Mr. Percy Lister
News has been received in Australia of the conferment of a knighthood on Mr. Percy Lister, Chairman of Directors of R. A. Lister and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Honored for War Work Knighthood for Mr. Percy Lister
News has been received in Australia of the conferment of a knighthood on Mr. Percy Lister, chairman of directors of R. A. Lister and Co…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Honoured for War Work. Knighthood for Mr. Percy Lister
News has been received in Australia of the conferment of a knighthood on Mr. Percy Lister, Chairman of Directors of R. A. Lister and Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fourth Anniversary of El Alamein. Turning Point in Second World War
The decisive battle of El Alamein not only recalls proud memories of a battle that turned the tide of war, says John Cotton, ex-Eighth Army Staff Officer,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Expectations of Big Tennis Season Howe Park Courts May Be Back to Pre-war Standard
A comprehensive programme of top-dressing has been carried out on the town's lawn courts at Howe Park, and the courts are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Soldier Hanged in Germany
[?] a member of the Royal Army Service [?] in Germany, was hanged on Wednesday for the murder of a [?] year old German woman in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bloom Off Early Post-war Boom
NEW YORK, Jan. 26. — The Wall Street Journal’s Washington correspondent says that Federal Government experts are now…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers’ Memorial Hall- at Em (Contributed)
As an initial step towards establishment of a War Memorial Hall at East Maitland, the committee responsible it proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Leader: Poetic Vision Australian Delegate Presses For Share In Peace-making Austria Cannot Be Freed From War Responsibility (Australian Associated Press Special)
LONDON, January 25.—The Australian Minister to France, Colonel W. R. Hodgson, before the Foreign Ministers’ deputies on Austria again pressed vigorously for the association of all active belligerents at every stage of peace making…
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