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It is reported from Washington this morning that Marine and Marine air units have been ordered to Japan in response to General MacArthur's request for additional power to back up the forces he has thrown into Korea. A Defence Department official, while refusing to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A prisoner in the police cell at Inverell, Charles Loughton, 45, was found to be severely wounded by a drinking vessel, portion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Friday. — American wounded, left behind in the battle north of Osan this week, were machine-gunned by North…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A 14-year-old boy returned home yesterday and found his mother in a bedroom with a bullet wound near her heart:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five years after the end of the war, 21 Japanese are still holding out on the tiny island of Antahan, in the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, July 7 (A.A.P.)—The “New York Times,” quoting a dispatch from its diplomatic correspondent, James Reston, said that the United States had quietly taken various precautions against provoking the Soviet Union and Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Armidale resident, Mr. A. W. Bourne, spent three years in Korea as a prisoner of war. During the Japanese occupation the country was known as Chosen, with Keijjo, or Seoul, as the capital. Mr. Bourne gives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Recruiting officers for the three services in Sydney and Melbourne have received hundreds of applications for enlistment since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINGLETON, Sat.—At the RSL Auxiliary meeting a motion of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. W. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OTTAWA, July 10 (AAP) — The British secretary for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. Patrick Gordon-Walker) arrived here…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOUTH KOREA, July 10 (AAP-Reuter), — American combat troops, guns and armour are pouring through the port of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, July 11.—Congressional leaders yesterday told President Truman that he could have all the money he required…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Framers of the Seamen's Union resolution banning the transport of war materials to Korea would be immediately brought before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain is understood to be consulting with American and other Governments, on proposals to be made to Russia for the ending of the Korean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The immediate call-up of 20,000 men for the Army has been ordered by the Defence Department, which said no other resource was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKIO, July 12.—Two journalists were killed during the fighting in Korea. They are Ray Richards, of Heart newspapers, and Ernie Peeler,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.— American troop reinforcements and war equipment to aid American forces In Korea are being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, July 12.—Demands for mobilisation of an all-out war effort to back the retreating U.S. forces In Korea,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The "War-to-end-Wars" ended with the Armistice on November 11, 1918, but since then the following wars have been fought:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LOS NEGROS, July 12 (A.A.P.-Reuter) .—Evidence of the decapitation of three Australians and one American prisoner of war at Bougainville was given to the war crimes court to-day in the fifth ease heard by the court against…
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