One Bullet Wounded Three
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 15. —Three Danish soldiers were wounded by the same rifle bullet, discharged accidentally, while their company was…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1949
617 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 31
Strong Man's Demands Met in Greek War
ATHENS: General Alexander Papagos, strong man of the Greek Army, has won his fight against Interference by foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reason For Not Trying Japanese Emperor As War Criminal
The decision not to try the Japanese Emperor as a war criminal was made by the Far Eastern Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Happy Landings For War-Mutilated Children
From the Red Cross comes a report which can only be described as harrowing—of child war victims, war-mutilated children from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Has Settled 973 Soldiers Land Minister Deplores "Dual Control"
Up to the end of 1948, the New South Wales Lands Department had placed 973 returned Servicemen directly on the land…
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DENMAN, Thursday.—Reports presented at the annual meeting of the Denman sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League…
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LONDON, January 21.— The War Office has sent this warning to 735 soldiers who passed through Port Said transit camp…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Child War Victims Of Europe
From the Red Cross comes a report which can only be described as harrowing-of child war victims, war-mutilated children from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Menzies Hints at Use of Atomic Bomb “State Of War In Europe”
Sydney Friday—In his speech in the Sydney town hall last night the leader of the Federal Opposition Mr. . G. Menzies suggested that the western allies might go as far as using the atomic bomb against the soviet over the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Twice Round the World is Travel Record of Retering Constable W.J.R. Boyd Has Been Policeman (Twice), Soldier (Twice), Dairy Hand, Sailor, Wheat Lumper
Twice round the world on ships is the travel record of Senior Constable W. J. R. Boyd, at present on lons service leave from the New South Wales Police Force, from which he will retire in June next…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →English Cricket to Pre-war Peak in 1951 (From the AAP-Reuter Correspondent at Singapore)
There is no earthly reason why the standard of English cricket should not reach its pre-war peak about 1951, and from then…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Never Want to See England Again” Return Of Two War Brides
SYDNEY, Monday.—More than 500 British migrants arrived in Sydney to-day on the liner Ormonde. Three hundred and thirteen will settle in Sydney and 209 are going to Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unemployment In America Now Causing Concern War Production May Stem Tide
NEW YORK, January 24.—U.S. Government officials are hopeful that the production of war materials expenditure on foreign aid programmes will help stem the rising tide of unemployment in the United States…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. K. Bolton, State President of the Returned Soldiers’ League, said that no Immediate application…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Richochting Pellets Wounded Boy Tamworth
Edward George Clark, 13, of Nundle, received 14 pellets in his legs and body in an unusual shooting mishap at Nundle at the week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldier Killed. Leap from King's Cross Flat Tragedy Witnessed by Wife. Sydney
A young returned soldier jumped to his death from a window of a flat in Broughton Square, King's Cross, after slashing his throat with a razor. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soviet Preparing For A Third World War
LONDON, January 27—A former member of Marshal Skolovsky’s staff in Berlin, Lieut.-Colonel George Tokaeff, who escaped to Britain, told the British Institute of Political Research yesterday that the political bureau of the Soviet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Stocks Given Priority Over Civilian Needs “Guns Before Butter,” U.S. Version
WASHINGTON, January 27.—A western variation of the Nazis’ “guns before butter” policy was announced yesterday by the U.S. Munitions Board, which stated that the accumulation of war materials would now take precedence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Not Imminent WASHINGTON. Thurs
The Army Secretary, Mr. Kenneth Royall, said yesterday that war was not imminent, but at least a possibility…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Less Textile Fibres Than Pre-war
Winchcomb Carson Ltd. report:— A remarkable feature of the world's supplies of textile fibres is that in 1947/48 rayon yarn…
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