Three Jap War Criminals Hanged London
According to Reuter’s correspondent at Singapore, the first executions of Japanese war criminals occurred at Changi Gaol today when Lieut…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1946
1,460 stories in Murray's papers · page 20 of 73
Returned Soldiers Monthly Meeting at Balldale
The Corowa sub-Branch of the RSL held its monthly meeting at Balidale on Monday evening last, in pursuance of their policy of visiting country centres for meetings so that country members may become conversant with the doings of the branch…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers’ ‘Generosity’ with Cigarettes Sydney
People on the wharf at Glebe Island were showered today with packets of cigarettes by 1365 troops who arrived from Balikpapan,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Land Allocated to Ex-Soldiers Yet CANBERRA
No land had yet been allocated to returned servicemen under the soldier settlement agreements, said the Minister for Postwar Reconstruction (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Costly Mistake For Soldier Threw Stones At a Constable’s Car
“Drunkenness is no excuse for throwing stones at motor vehicles. Your actions may have resulted in serious injury to persons travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stalin Throws Spanner into Allied Camp Violent Attack on Churchill Accuses Former P.M. of Wanting War Against Soviet Misgiving Aroused by Remarkable Outburst LONDON
Marshal Stalin claims that Mr. Churchill’s speech at Fulton, Missouri; last week was a call for war with the Soviet Union. In his speech Mr. Churchill called for a closer union between Britain and the U.S.A. and also attacked Russia. In an interview with a correspondent of the official Communist newspaper “Pravda”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Brides to March in London LONDON
Australian war brides from Southern England left their headquarters at Brighton this morning to Join other brides from different parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Few Fathers Visiting Sick Soldiers Criticism at Albury Meeting Last Night
Failure of members to turn up whom they were placed on the Bonegilla hospital visiting roster was criticised at the Albury Fathers’…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Fight in Cafe Sequel in Albury Court
When soldiers started a fifth in the Albury. Cafe, Dean st, on Thursday evening last a glass show case was damaged to the extern of £13 5/…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Iranians Ready to Die to The Last Man” War Minister Says Boys and Girls Will Fight Russians, Too Mr. Truman Not Alarmed By The Latest Developments TEHERAN
“The Iranian army is ready to fight to the last man if the Russians move towards Teheran from Karaj, where trainloads of troops and ammunition are arriving nightly,” said the War Minister, General Depehod Amir Ahmedi, when interviewed by the British Associated Press correspondent after he had an audience with the Shah…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cheers Greet Churchill’s Anti Russian Attack “Soviet Does Not Want War At Present” New York
The former British Prime Minister (Mr Winston Churchill) told America on Friday night that he did not wish to withdraw or modify one word of his sensational attack on Russia and her expansionist tendencies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Soldiers in Hospital
Three soldiers were admitted to 106 [?] Bonegilla, on Friday after their truck had overturned while negotiating a turn on the Melbourne road, about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welcome Home Social to Lavington Service Personnel
There was a fair attendance of residents at a social in Lavington Hall when 40 Lavington service personnel received the Hume Shire Council’s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hay War Memorial High School Successful Social Evening
The first social of the 1946 series was held at the Memorial High School hall on the evening of Friday, 15th March, when the school hall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land for Soldier Settlers Government Asked for Definite Information
The delay In making land available for ex Servicemen has prompted Mr. W. A. Chaffcy (CP, Tamworth) to ask the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ex-Soldier Hangs Himself in Cell SYDNEY
Waller Blake Meyers, aged 27, whom the police said had served with the AIF in the Middle East, was found hanged in a cell at Long Bay gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier with Firearms; Three Months’ Gaol MELBOURNE
At the City Court today, Allan Peter Woods, aged 49, a soldier, who admitted having been AWL for six months, was committeed for trial on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier-teachers Taking Refresher Courses Sydney
School teachers who have been on active service today started a refresher course. The Minister for Education (Mr Heffron.) said the courses were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welcome Home to Kergunyah Service Personnel
A public meeting convened by Mr A. F. Jarvis on Friday last decided that a welcome home be given to Kergunyah servicemen and women in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Loan Committee
At a meeting of the local War Loan Committee on Friday evening , the non-secretary (Mr F. Howden) tendered the following report on the Fourth…
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