First N.s.w. Man to Enlist for Korea
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 August 1953 · page 3
Right: The first man to enlist in NSW in “K” (Korea) Force was Pte. D. P. Buck, and here he is shown on his return from a prisoner-of-war camp in North Korea. His number is 2/400,000 —the first number to be issued in NSW. With him is Pte. R…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Albury may spearhead war on rabbits
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 August 1953 · page 2
Albury may soon become the headquarters in the fight with myxomatosis against the rabbit, Important work undertaken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Holds Up War
Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 August 1953 · page 10
PARIS, Sun.: Heavy rains have brought the Indo-China war to a near, standstill during the past 10 days, but further…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In Albury Court Yesterday Soldiers’ allegation against constable: one is fined
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 August 1953 · page 8
Two soldiers told Albury Court yesterday they had been talking together outside a local theatre when a policeman in plainclothes grabble one by the arm and arrested him…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →They Remembered Their Comrades Who Died in the War
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Tues.; Army headquarters Melbourne, today received a message from Korea describing the memorial service held on Sunday for those members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400 Allied soldiers join Reds
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 5
TOKIO, Tues : The Communists had notified the U.N. Command that about 400 Allied! prisoners of war had decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What Holbrook Council Did Yesterday : Will “Stick” by soldier settlers who may be in in difficulties
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 10
Holbrook Shire Council is to "stick" to soldier settlers in the administration area of the shire from the point of view of rates, and will advise bear with them under difficulties. This was the unaimous…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →“Third World War Possible”
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 August 1953 · page 2
BERLIN, Wed.: The West German Government’s course of integrating West Germany in the European defence system “could…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.G. villagers slaughtered in tribal war
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 August 1953 · page 1
PORT MORESBY, Wed.: A recent 60-day patrol through previously uncontacted areas in the southern highlands…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A.l.p. Directs Members Not to Attend Peace-war Convention
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 August 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wed.: The A.L.P. State Executive has instructed A.L.P. members not to take part in the proposed convention on peace and war in Sydney in September. The executive has issued a direction telling members…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier-killer to be held IN goal
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 August 1953 · page 5
CANBERRA. Fri. : Pte. I. D. Cupit, found guilty of murder. but insane at the time by a General Court Marital in Korea in March,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Park Game War Not A True Test
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 8
In a game of football [?] was never taken seriously [?] âsenior clubâ defeated a [?]bined Edward River Association…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Early Third World War Is Belief of Mr. Casey
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tues.: The likelihood of a Third World War in the immediate future had greatly diminished, the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Casey) said today. The end of the fighting in Korea was the most hopeful feature of this new state of affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Govt. forced to use soldiers to load ships
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 3
CANBERRA, Tues.: The Commonwealth Government is putting 70 personnel into the North Queensland port of Bowen to food overseas ships with meat for the United Kingdom. The Minister for Labor (Mr. Holt) said tonight the Government had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers load sugar as wharfies refuse to work
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 3
BRISBANE, Thurs.: Regular Army troops started loading 900 tons of sugar into two ships on Bowen wharf this afternoon. Close Secrecy veiled the move to load sugar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →20 young soldiers drown
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 1
NEW YORK, Thursday : Twenty soldiers were drowned in one of the worst military training tragedies since the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Army’s secret moves to shift soldiers
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 3
BOWEN, Fri.: The Army made secret moves today for the quick evacuation of troops from Bowen. This follows the decision in Melbourne today to end the strike, which threatened to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowen flare-up settled; soldiers to leave wharves
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Soldiers loading meal and sugar at Bowen (Qld.) are to be removed from the wharves to make way for an augmented body of watersiders to take up the loading from Monday morning, This is the nucleus of the terms of settlement of the Bowen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Doctors winning war against T.B.
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 September 1953 · page 24
SYDNEY, Mon. : Medical science would reduce TB to the scale of measles or scarlet fever, Dr. Ernest Silberstern said today…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →"Land Tax Not Needed for Soldier Settlement; Loan Monies Recklessly Spent" --- Bruxner
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 September 1953 · page 1
The Leader of the Country Party (Lt. Col. Bruxner) said on Wednesday that there was no justification whatever for the statement by the Cahlli Government that its new land tax proposal was necessary because the Commonwealth…
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