Judge’s Association With Pro-Soviet Body Patronage Withdrawn After War
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Thursday. — At the Victorian Royal Commission on Communism, the Commissioner, Mr. Justice Sir Charles Lowe, said he had become a patron of Australia. Soviet House during the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Miners Paid Award Rates
The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 6
The Prime Minister (Mr. J. B. Chifley) this week announced the details of payments to Servicemen working open-cut…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Hero Dies in Park
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 1
LONDON, August 13.—Thirty-five-years-old Battle of Britain hero, Wing-Commander John W. Simpson, decorated by the King…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Widows Now on One Footing
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2
The Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Barnard) told the Returned Servicemen's League conference on Tuesday that war widows of 1914-18 were now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.z. Wages War on Rabbits
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 5
Wellington.— Phospheriead pollard balls broadcast recently by aircraft over N.Z. Crown hill country in the Marlborough…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Loan Shows Stamina Over Steeples Failure On Flat, But Closely Related To Windbag
Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 5
War Loan’s victory in the Australian Steeple at Caulfield on Saturday gave trainer Stan Murphy an opportunity to emulate his father, Steve Murphy, who trained Bang bang, winner in 1932…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Tokio Rose” Trial: Japanese Brutality To Prisoners Of War Cousens Wept As He Told Of Horrors
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2
SAN FRANCISCO, August 17—At the “Tokio Rose” trial here, Charles Hugh Cousens, former major in the Australian army, wept as he recounted the horror of his days as a prisoner of war of the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President of Soldiers’ League
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The President of the RSL, Mr. William Yeo, was re-elected president by a large majority at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Uproar at Election Soldiers’ League Official
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 6
SYDNEY, Thurs.—There was uproar at State Congress of the RSL yesterday when the secretary, Mr. J. R. Lewis, announced…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Victim" Was Not There. Police Drag Dam. Story of a Soldier Who Went A.W.L.
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 1
Army and police were put to much trouble on Tuesday and Wednesday following the discovery by Mr. Harry Ooakes of a set…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parade of Open Cut Soldier Miners
Singleton Argus · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 1
Troops who won open-cut coal during the strike will take part in a review and parade at Ingleburn Camp on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move to Admit Men To R.S.L. With No War Record "Federal Congress Will Not Pass It", Says Former State President
Singleton Argus · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 5
R.S.L. State Congress yesterday decided that ex-servicemen who were in the Forces for at least six months after volunteering for overseas service should be eligible to join the League…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastor Niemoller to Visit Maitland Persecuted During The War
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 2
Dr. Martin Niemoller, one of the outstanding figures of the Christian church, who is to make a Visit to Australia, will be in Maitland on Tuesday, August 30, at 3 p.m. He will be accompanied by his wife,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experts Sort Out 2000 Years of History War Bombing Exposed Ancient Remains
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 5
LONDON: When the Germans flattened large areas of London by bombing during the war they provided the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council with opportunities to explore devastated land which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Threat of War
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 3
LONDON, August 23.—The “Daily Mail” bays the hostility between Russia and Yugoslavia has reached such a pitch that “an outbreak of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Truman Urges Speedy Military Assistance Pear of War Would Hamper European Economic Recovery
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 2
WASHINGTON, August 23—Appealing to Congress for speedy action is his programme of military assistance for the North Atlantic and other Powers, President Truman warned that European economic recovery would lag if the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day's World News Bitter Press War. Bbitain-u.s. Dollar Issue. Washington
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 2
The United States Senate was told today that the U.S. should require Britain to abandon her "wasteful experiment in Socialism before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Excellent War Records
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 3
Daley and McNamara had excellent war records. Daley, a "Tobruk Rat," had been awarded the Military Medal…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 5
SYDNEY: The Agricultural Division of East-West Airlines in Tamworth, N.S.W., is reported to be planning a wide scheme for dusting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buyers' Market Returns Post War Boom Ending
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 1
Business in Australia was passing from a seller's to a buyer's market, said the chairman of the Commercial…
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