"Ratting" Property of Dead Soldiers
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Army personnel employed in kit stores were "ratting" the personal property of soldiers killed in this war, alleged…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1943
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More Civilians Killed Than Soldiers Says Berlin
LONDON, Thursday.—More civilians now are being killed in Germany than soldiers at the front, declares the German overseas radio, but the Allied attack has raised to undreamed heights the German will to resist. A German frontline reporter, von Platow, describing over a German radio the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Helping the War Effort
P. OF W. COLLECTIONS.—A new collecting group for the Prisoners of War Fund attached to the Waratah Mayfield branch of the Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Facts About Britain at War
"Fifty facts about Britain at War" is the title of a booklet prepared by the Department of Information which is being distributed among…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nerve War: Another "Quake" Recorded
NERVE WAR: ANOTHER "QUAKE" RECORDED…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brake on Pacific War Correspondents. See All Can Tell Nothing
War correspondents are gnawing their nails in exasperation as they watch the biggest story of the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Use by Soldiers Unlikely Red Cross-C.A.S. Rest Home
Although she agreed it was a pit that the Maude Cannington Red Cross rest home for bomb victims should not be used sat present, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attacked by Comrades, Said Soldier
SYDNEY, Friday.—A Ninth Division veteran with three service chevrons, who was before a court-martial to-day charged with being absent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Classify Soldier Settlers
SYDNEY, Friday.—Members comprising the classification committee under the War Service Land Settlement Act of 1941 to investigate the…
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ADAMSTOWNS PRESENTATIONS.—Adamstown Send-off and welcome-home committee held a presentation dance and social in the Adamstown Soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Check Made On War Certificates
As the result of a check on groups now being made in the Newcastle district, improvement is expected…
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SYDNEY.—Plans for the large-scale employment of selected Italian prisoners of war were announced to-day by the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spender Sees False Boom in First Post-war Period
The time was ripe, said Mr. P. C. Spender, MHR, today in an address to Newcastle Rotary Club, for private enterprise to be sitting with the Government to make plans for post-war reconstruction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Six Years' War
Six years ago Japanese troops of the Tientsin garrison were holding night manoeuvres. A private disappeared. Without any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helping the War Effort
WARATAH-MAYFIELD SEND-OFF AND WELCOME-HOME COMMITTEE last night voted a contribution of £10 to the Newcastle branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Food Ships for War Prisoners
LONDON, Monday.—The Red Cross and St. John war organisation has eight ships under permanent charter carrying supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazis May Think of Third War
LONDON, Monday.—Germany may even now be contemplating a third world war, the Labor Minister (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Confidence in Roosevelt's Conduct of War
WASHINGTON, Monday.—Politics are sizzling in America at this time. Behind the sound and fury of domestic debate there is a bulwark of unity built on the solid approval of Roosevelt's conduct of the war abroad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dr. Evatt at War Cabinet
LONDON, July 6.—Dr. Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs, attended a meeting of the British War Cabinet yesterday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Loading Payments Before Coal Board
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Unless the position regarding wartime loading payments was adjusted there was a possibility of serious unrest on the…
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