Albury builders “shy-off” war service homes
Albury was the only city in Australia in which the War Service Homes Commission had not overcome difficulties with local builders concerning the erection of homes…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1954
457 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 23
Mercy mission reaches fort as war re-starts
HANOI, Tues.: French bombers today resumed fullscale attacks on the main supply fine of the Vietminh forces almost at the same time as Professor Pierre Huard, chief French negotiator for evacuating French…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Reds Claim French Killing Their Own Wounded
HANOI, Wed.: French bombers attacking the main Vietminh supply line killed 15 wounded French soldiers, a Vietminh radio broadcast said today. The radio denounced the âviolating actsâ of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier settlement Menzies Government attacked
MELBOURNE, Wed.: The Menzies-Fadden Government stood condemned for its tragic handling of soldier settlement,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heroine will stay with wounded
PARIS, Thurs.: Nurse Genevieve de Galard heroine of Dien Bien Phu, has turned down an offer of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Papal Relic for Sick War Hero
VATICAN CITY, Thurs.: A fragment of skin of Pope pins the 10th Whose canonisation will be approved today was flown to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commissioner hopeful on war service homes for Albury
War Service Homes Commissioner (Mr. C. Lucas) had left Albury, after his visit here this week, quite hopeful of getting local builders to tender for homes for ex-servicemen on the Walsh Estate in East Albury,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We may go to war in S. E Asia
London, Thurs.: Military staff talks between Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France and the United States are expected to start in Washington âwithout delayâ Geneva correspondents today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pigs Kept on War Memorial Land Mayor's Report to Council
A report that pigs were being kept in the centre of the town on land at the Memorial Hall, was made by the Mayor at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“War hero” sent to gaol for six months
SYDNEY, Fri.: A young man who was alleged to have obtained money from girls by posing as a war hero was gaoled for six months when charged with vagrancy at Central Police Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“U.s. Nearly at War Few Weeks Ago”
NEW YORK. Sun.: Senator George Smathers said today the United States âactually took the leapâ towards active…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →“Monty” Predicts Atomic War
LONDON, Tues.: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said yesterday that in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Between Honduras, Guatemala “Imminent”
CHICAGO, Tues.: War between Honduras and Guatemala was âimminent,â the Chicago âTribuneâ said last night in a dispatch from Honduras, reporting that President Juan Manuel Galver had asked the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Settlement Fadden blamed for curtailment
SYDNEY, Tues. : Full responsibility for curtailment of State loan expenditure on soldier settlement rested on Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →How to Get War Medals
CANBERRA, Wed.: Only 34 per cent. of former army members entitled to World War ll medals had claimed them. the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YARRAWONGA Welcome home
At the Burramine Hall recently residents gathered to welcome back Mr. and Mrs. âBuntiâ Beattie, who have returned to the district after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Wodonga Court : Korean war veteran fined on driving charge
A 31-year-old D.F.C. winner and Korean war veteran was fined £5 in Wodonga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge of driving under the influence on May 5…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New French proposals for ending Indo-China war
GENEVA, Fri.: New French proposals for an armistice in Vietnam, largest of the three war-ridden Indo-China States, and new proposals by the Communists will be debated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“New Look” Slows Up War Planning
WASHINGTON, Mon.: The American Army could not be ready to fight a global war at any time in the foreseeable…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Stage nearer to ending war in Indo-China
GENEVA, Mon.: The nine-nation Indo-China peace conference will start secret talks this week on how an armistice is to be controlled. The conference agreed yesterday that…
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