R. Evatt Warns Drift Towards War United Nations Main Hope For Just Peace
Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 2
CANBERRA, Monday.—“Nothing that can be done should be left undone so far as Australia is concerned prevent the utter catastrophes of war, declared the Minister for External Attain (Dr. Evatt)…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 2
Alexander Telford Pryde, 22, soldier, pleaded guilty at Maitland land Quarter Sessions to-day to braving at Greta on January 22…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Customs Search of Soldiers Belongings
Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday.—The personal belongings of [?] and 92 airmen who returned to Sydney to-day from Japan were roughly search by customs officials. instead of being searched at Payment wha[?] the men were…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 5
Just over three month's ago a local ex-member of the Forces applied for part time training, under the Post War Reconstruction Scheme, in shorthand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ask for War Cemetery to Be Cleaned
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 4
At a meeting of East Maitland RSL Sub-branch, it was decided to ask the War Graves Commission to clean up the East…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Shipping – "Closing the Gap" Gradually Approaching Pre-war Strength
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 3
Britain's merchant fleet is gradually approaching its prewar strength with 1947 standing out as a year of great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Will Risk War to stop Communism" Strongest Attack Yet Made
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 1
The British delegate to U.N.O., Sir Alexander Cadogan bluntly told the Security Council yesterday that Communism must be stopped, even at the risk of war. He told the Council: "We know of preparations being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Implements Banned In Japan Decisions of Allied Far Eastern Commission
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 1
WASHINGTON, March 24,—Plans to prohibit future military activity by Japan were unanimously approved by the Allied Far Eastern Commission -to-day, A directive based on the Commission’s decision has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock War Memorial
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 5
The Cessnock and District War Memorial Fund is increasing slowly such contributions as are being received coming from firms and offices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia Very Nearly in State of War
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 4
So active have the Communists become in this Country that Australia is very nearly in a state of war," declared the Leader of the Country Party, (Lt.-Col…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War-Ravaged Malaya Returns To Normal Traces of Japanese Occupation Obliterated (By Roy Macartney, AAP-Reuter Correspondent)
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1948 · page 3
SINGAPORE: Malaya’s New Year will really begin on February 1, the day on which the new Federation of Malaya will come into being. Malaya stands at political crass-roads with much of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded When Out Hunting
Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 March 1948 · page 2
NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Patrick O’Brien, 20, of Kanrick-street, Junction, and Ronald Pitts, 17, of Union-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“No Shooting War For Five Years”
Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 March 1948 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday.—Professor M. L. E. Opllphant said that there could be no “shooting war” for at loast five years. Russia may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Avert War; Wants Talks with Stalin
Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 March 1948 · page 1
ARLINGTON (West Virginia) March 29.—In a broadcast yesterday, Senator Cloude pepper (Democrat, Florida) appealed to President Truman to try to meet Marshal Stalin to make [?] of lost of [?] understanding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truman Accused of Causing War Crisis
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2
NEW TORE, March 31.—Almost at the same time as the Presideint, Mr. Truman, was telling an [?] of Greek-Americans that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Real Danger of War, Says Mounteoars
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2
Admiral Lot Mounterana (“Evans it the Broke”)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Celebration of Anzac Day
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2
The West Maitland sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League has arrangements well on the way to completion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Crimes Commission
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 3
LONDON, April 1.—After four years in existence the United Nations War Crimes Commission dissolved yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enlisting Aliens In America
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1
WASHINGTON, April 1.—Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, Massachusetts) to-day urged the Senate armed services’ committee…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 3
SINGLETON, Thursday, Alter negotiations which have lasted [?] than three years, soldier settlement on Scrurnio has been finalised…
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