Talks to end the war in Indo-China begin
HONG KONG, Sun.: Cease-fire talks began in Indo-China this morning, according to Vietminh radio. The talks are between the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1954
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Five soldiers injured when truck overturns
WAGGA, Sun.: An Army track carrying a team of footballers overturned near Junee last night…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Smithfield Back to Its Pre-war Glory
LONDON, Mon.: Butchers and sightseers jammed Londonâs Smithfield meat market with cars and trucks todayâthe first day of unrationed meat. The jam caused a labor…
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SINGAPORE, Tues.: More than 100 Army, Navy and Air Force officers from Britain, the United States, France and Australia…
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A start has also been made (the plastering of the walls, of the new War Memorial Building. The Plastering…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.S.W. will wage war on “foreign” lotteries
SYDNEY, Fri.: police will be asked to furnish a report on the operation of agencies in N.S.W. selling Tasmanian lottery tickets. This was announced today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dishonest Soldiers Dealt with
TOKIO, Fri.: Two Australian servicemen, alleged to have been concerned with the theft and sale of military stores to Japanese…
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LONDON, Mon. : One of the two Dominican diplomats wounded in a Consulate shooting incident on Saturday night died…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney housewives gain from “egg” war: prices cut
SYDNEY, Mon. : An âeggâ war between Victorian poultry farmers and the N.S.W. Egg Board should result in still lower egg prices by spring…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Believes hydrogen bomb has outlawed total war
NEW YORK, Tues.: It was entirely possible that the hydrogen bomb and germ warfare had outlawed any resort to total war, Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, a Democratic member of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee, said…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Killed by Wounded Lion
KAMPALA (Uganda), Wed.: Major R. E. P. Wyndham, a game ranger, was killed by a wounded lion near Mgarara in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General Broughshane Soldier Settler Blocks
The Under Secretary for Lands, (Mr. A. R. Jones), has advised settlers on this Estate that the Lands Department…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wounded Boy’s Ordeal
ADELAIDE. Sun. : Wounded in the high a 15-year old boy hobbled more than eight miles on improvised crutches before he…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: A nightwatchman fired seven shots at to men whom he disturbed break into Randic and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Nu thinks U.S.-China rushing towards war
RANGOON, Mon. : America and China were âheading towards a catastrophic war,â the Burmese Prime Minister, Mr. U. Nu, said today. Mr. Nu said the hostility…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R.S.L. proposed new plan for war
CANBERRA, Wed.: The Returned Servicemenâs League has proposed to the Government a plan aimed at placing war pension rates on a just basis for the next few years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Cain’s claim on Victoria’s soldier settlers’ scheme
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Victoria was settling ex-soldiers on the land at about £10,000 a settler, compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Diggers in wild scenes in Anzac Day debate
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: There were wild scenes at the Returned Soldiersâ League conference tonight as a narrow majority of delegates carried a resolution that the Anzac Day…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Conference fold of plight of war nurses
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A motion that nurses of the First World War receive free treatment in Repatriation…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Claims Soviet has guided hydrogen-war head missiles
WASHINGTON, Thurs.: Senator Stuart Symington, a former Secretary for Air, yesterday claimed that the soviet Union was outstripping the United States in the development of long-range guided missiles with…
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