War Pensions Bill Jumps
CANBERRA, Tues.: The cost of [?] pensions increased from £22,023,000 in 1949-50 to an estimated £34,000,000 in 1952-53, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1952
576 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 29
Nerve war flames up again in Germany
BERLIN, Tues.: Latest move in the new nerve war in Germany occurred at Helmstedt, on the border of East and West Germany,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War veterans to seek 30/- pension rise
CANBERRA, Tues.: Representatives of five disabled soldiers’ associations tomorrow will press their case before a Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →M.M. for Digger who killed Chinese soldier with his bare hands
CANBERRA, Tues.: An Australian corporal whose platoon in Korea had been considerably depleted and who himself had lost the use of his carbine attacked a Chinese Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Home for old Diggers instead of War Memorial bowl”
Suggestion that the plan for a World War II memorial bowl on Monument Hill should be scrapped and the money raised for the project spent on a home for aged and homeless Diggers has been made by Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“May Be One Last Chance to Avoid World War Iii”
WASHINGTON, Thursday : Congress might be throwing away the “one last chance of avoiding World War III” if…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Who Did “Block” Is Fined
“I did my block when he said I wasn’t good enough to fight in Korea,“ a soldier told the Wodonga police court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →No Time Extension for Soldier Settlers
No extension of the time within which applications for participation under the War Service Land Settlement Scheme must…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier said Soviet kept him in gaol
LONDON, Fri.: A 25-year-old soldier of the Manchester Regiment, who said the Russians gaoled him for 4½ years after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lightning damages war memorial
ATHENS, Sun.: Lightning damaged a British Commonwealth war memorial in Greece yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ready for War by 1953?
Australia must prepare for possible mobilisation for hostilities by the end of 1953, the Federal Treasurer. Sir Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Settlement and “Just Terms” “Sheer Hypocrisy,” Says Premier
THE Premier (Mr. Cahill) has stated that he has been in touch with the Minister for Lands (Mr. Hawkins), who was out of town. Mr. Hawkins had informed him it was sheer hypocrisy for Federal Ministers to mouth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ridgway warns on bombing of Manchurian bases “Could Start Third World War at the Wrong Time ”
WASHINGTON, Tues.: Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, former Supreme Commander in the Far East, is reported to have told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the bombing of Manchurian bases…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Land Acquisitions for War Service Settlement Safeguarding Constitutional Principle
"Every individual, whether he is a squatter or a sundowner, is entitled to ordinary British justice in this country."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"War Waged" on Bookmakers
Many bookmakers have gone out of business in New Zealand or are "lying low" since the Minister for Police (Mr. For…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brick Drive to Build War Memorial Hall at Henty
At the last meeting of Henty War Memorial Committee, it was unanimously decided to go ahead with preparations for the building of a War Memorial Hall. Plans drawn up some years a[?]e accepted, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Service Land Settlement Bill To Safeguard Constitutional Principle
âEVERY individual, whether he is a squatter or a sun-downer, is entitled to ordinary British justice in this country.â Thus spoke the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Kent Hughes) in winding up an unexpectedly lively debate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Soldiers May Lose Their Sight
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Doctors fear that two of the four national service trainees who were burned by lime at Holdsworthy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Mail” pictures of soldier settlement to go to Lands Minister
Pictures taken by a “Mail” representative when he visited Carabost soldier settlement this week to investigate deplorable conditions of roads leading to farms will be shown to the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Looking for Wounded Man
MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police are looking for a man whom they think was wounded in a shooting affray at a house in…
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