War Imminent Says Hughes
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—William Hughes, M.H.R., foreshadowed today that momentous years lay ahead of the whole world…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1951
174 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 9
Civil War Threat in Germany
BONN, Wednesday (A.A.P.).— West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called an emergency session of the Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Pensioner Falls Into Coal Chute
A 50 years-old war pensioner was injured last night when he fell 10ft. down one of the coal chutes at No. 1 jetty, Port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Talked of Horror
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A 16-year-old girl at Redfern Court today said that a soldier charged with having attempted to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yank Wanted to "Get Into War"
TOKIO, Friday (A.A.P.-Reuter). —Twenty-six-year-old American civilian William Jesse Newton, of Los Angeles, walked into a muddy front line post on the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Pensioner Injured in Unusual Fall
A Wollongong war pensioner was injured oh Wednesday night when he fell down a coal chute on a Port…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Air Evacuation of Korea Wounded Rapid," Says Padre
SYDNEY, Monday. —Padre Scott, of Sydney, who was with the 77th Squadron of the R.A.A.F., said today air…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Welcome Home To Peace Delegate Today
The Illawarra Peace Committee and the Ironworkers' Association will welcome home their World Peace Congress delegate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Musician Played Flute & Piccolo at Boer War
Lt. Col. H. E. Adkins, famous British bandmaster who will arrive in Wollongong to-day to conduct the ABC Military Band at the Savoy Theatre to-night, served in the Boer War as a flute and piccolo player "armed with a stretcher"…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Australian Soldier in Jap. Court
TOKYO, Thursday (AAP-Reuter).—Australian ex-serviceman Kenneth William Gibbons, who returned to Japan to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Menzies Hints At 'War' Controls
CANBERRA, Wednesday. — Mr. Menzies will submit plans to a special meeting of the Federal Cabinet tomorrow and on Friday to place Australia on a semi-wartime footing as quickly as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Interview Wounded Man In Hospital
A man living at the Official Camp, Port Kembla. was rushed to Wollongong Hospital last night with a wound in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russian Protest on Release of Jap. War Criminals
LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).—Russia has sent a note to the United States and to other members of the Allied Council for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Club Proposals
SIR,—The annual meeting of the Wollongong Soldiers' Club, to be held in the club rooms on Monday night, will probably be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Inevitable With Russia Says R.S.L. Chief
"We have got to fight Russia sooner or later. Re-arming will be a manpower problem. Japan must be re-armed as a buffer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →England May Win First Test Since War
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — At the end of the fourth day of the Fifth Test, England looks certain of winning its first postwar Test from Australia. Only twice previously has Australia been able to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Victims of the War in Korea
Many children have lost their parents in the fighting in Korean In Seoul, an orphanage was destroyed. Forty or more of the children were killed, or were missing, according to an U.N. information officer on the spot. Some 50 children survived the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Appeal for China's Cooperation to End Korean War
LONDON, Thursday (AAP).— An appeal; to Communist China to co-operate with the United Nations, good offices committee…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ex-servicemen to Receive War Gratuities Today
SYDNEY, Friday.—War gratuity cheques which have been received by most city and suburban banks, will be credited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Security Council to Gear Aust. for War
CANBERRA, Friday.—The establishment of a National Security Council to gear the nation for war was agreed to by the emergency Premiers' Conference here today…
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