"Chocolate Soldier" Blitze Weakness in Wollongong CMF Unit (To the Editor)
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 4 July 1952 · page 5
Sir,—Many and varied statements have been made of late in the Sydney Press concerning C.M.F. falling enlistments and increasing dissatisfaction arid consequent resignations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Flood Relief Appeal
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1952 · page 5
The Wollongong subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League flood relief appeal will close on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Memorial
Kiama Independent · Wednesday 9 July 1952 · page 1
DESPOILED AND DAMAGED LAST WEEK BY VANDALS…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Dean Says Germ War Facts "Irrefutable"
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 July 1952 · page 3
LONDON, Tues.—Facts concerning germ warfare in Korea were "conclusive and irrefutable," the Red Dean…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hooligan Acts Are Costing Ratepayers £300 a Year Kiama's War Memorial Despoiled by Vandals
Kiama Independent · Wednesday 9 July 1952 · page 1
Hooligans and vandals are costing Kiama ratepayers between £300 and £400 every year. Street lights are being wantonly smashed, trees cut, buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier for Trial on Murder Charge
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1952 · page 11
SYDNEY, Wed.—Gilbert Ryan, 23, soldier, was today committed for trial on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Time Priority
Kiama Independent · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 3
The Menzies Government intends to give the same priority to the manufacture of superphosphate as was given to the war-time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Victim's Baby Daughter Dies
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 3
JOLIET (Illinois) Fri.—The two-day-old daughter of armless, legless Korean War veteran. Private…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jap War Bride Arrives
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 21 July 1952 · page 7
Mrs Cherry Parker, first Japanese war bride to come to Australia, pictured here on her arrival with her husband and three-year-old daughter Margaret. Mr Gordon Parker married Cherry in Japan six years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thirroul Soldiers' Fishing Club
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 28 July 1952 · page 9
A favourable balance sheet and report was adopted at the annual meeting of Thirroul Soldiers' Memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Editorial: Liberals "At War" Over Banking
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 1
A CURIOUS "war" is going on inside the Liberal Party at Canberra. The parties are a number of rank and file members, on one hand, and senior Cabinet Ministers, headed by the Prime Minister,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Enlistments Increase By 25,000
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 8
CANBERRA, Thurs.—Total civilian employment in Australia has dropped by 42,300 in the 12 months ended jast June. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →R.s.l Declines to Ban Sport on Anzac Afternoon
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 August 1952 · page 3
SYDNEY, Fri.—The R.S.L. annual conference today defeated a move which sought to ban commercialised sport on Anzac Day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Money for War and Peace
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 5
"If we can find unlimited money for war, why can't we find it for peacetime development."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Typhoon Stops War in Korea
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 2
SEOUL, Mon. — A 100-m.p.h. typhoon struck Korea today, halting most ground and air fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annual Gift Of Rams For War Settlers
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 9
A gift by F. S. Falkiner and Sons Pty Ltd. of 100 "Boonoke" merino rams for soldier settlers is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Unemployed "Advised" To Enlist
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 9
CANBERRA, Tues.—The Minister for Defence (Mr. McBride) said in the House of Representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Speaker Outlines Welsh Post-war Progress
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 8
Mr. John Webb, Registrar of the University of Technology, Sydney, was the guest speaker…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →U.s. Soldiers Aid Korea Orphans
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 7
A "Korean Orphans' Aid Society," designed to assist in the care, feeding and clothing of 75…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Youth Killed And Woman Wounded; Shooting Affray
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 6
ADELAIDE, Mon.â A youth was killed and a 45-year-old woman was wounded in a shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →