War Prisoners May Help Grow Food
CANBERRA, Monday.—Because of the extreme manpower position, prisoner-of-war labour may soon be employed on vegetable production…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1943
2,543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 128
Prisoner of War Labor Does Not Impress
SYDNEY.—Prisoner of war labor, as used by the Stale Government on its vegetable farm at Yanco. has proved fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£8,500,000 in War Damage Claims
ADELAIDE, Monday.—War damage claims in Papua, New Guinea, and Darwin already amounted to about £8,500,000, said the Chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effective Reply to Submarines Review For War Council
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Plans to combat the Japanese submarine war on shipping in Australian waters will be one of the major subjects…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Exchange of War Prisoners Istanbul (Turkey)
Another exchange of British and Italian prisoners has been completed at Smyrna. Four hundred sick or wounded Italian soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Education Scheme For Incapacitated Soldiers
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The conference of the Australian Educational Council to-day adopted an educational scheme for rehabilitation of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kahibah Soldier, Deaf and Blind, Teaches Friends To Converse
BLIND and deaf, following service with the A.I.F. overseas, 20-year-old Private Norman Wilkinson, of Kahibah, with true courage and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowlers "Adopt" 200 Soldiers
Latest organisation to promise support to the A.C.F. adoption scheme is Newcastle District Bowling Association, which aims to raise £500,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Adopt a Soldier" Scheme Well Supported
Although the "Adopt a Soldier" campaign has not been officially launched. 160 soldiers already have been "adopted." the organiser (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoners of War
SAPPER O. C. ALLEN, of Adamstown, who was missing in Malaya, is now reported to be a prisoner…
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NEW LAMBTON SEND-OFF AND WELCOME HOME COMMITTEE will hold a presentation dance and social in the New Lambton Scout Hall on Thursday, June…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian War Prisoners in Thailand
MELBOURNE.—A new list of 1312 names of Australian prisoners in Thailand has been received by the Australian Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Some Misuse of Powers" War Regulations Assailed
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Newspapers dedicated themselves to the service of truth and freedom of expression, These must be absolute and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Only Beginning for Us" Mr. Hughes on War
SYDNEY, Tuesday. —Germany, who in 1940 bestraddled Europe and stood almost within arm's length of a world empire, was facing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S.-Born Japs To Work In War Industries
WASHINGTON, Tuesday. Thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent who were moved a year ago from the west…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hanson Baldwin Sums Up Axis Has Lost, But Allies Have Not Won War
NEW YORK, May 11.—"Germany has been badly hurt, but she is still strong, and the world faces another summer of major crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Few Soldiers Die of Malaria
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Army medical officers were waging a successful fight against the malaria menace in Northern combat zones, said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers' Funeral Two Miles Long
ALBURY, Tuesday.—Headed by 10 dispatch riders and four military trucks bearing the caskets the funeral cortege of the soldier victims of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoner of War
PTE. WILLIAM RIGBY, of Islington, is reported a prisoner of war in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Pensions For Civilians
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The War Cabinet decided to-day that a review of the Commonwealth civil war injuries compensation scheme…
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