Kitbags Rifled While Soldiers in North
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Members of an A.I.F. unit now in Brisbane on leave from New Guinea found their kitbags rifled of personal…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,418 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 121
At Wallsend: No Tobacco Issue for Soldier Hospital Patients
A special issue of tobacco for soldier inmates in Wallsend Hospital has been refused by the To[?]co Rationing Commissioner…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Harrison) said an outstanding example of the Commonwealth…
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LONDON, May 17. A.A.P.—The exchange ships Gradisca, carrying over 900 Allied war prisoners, and the Gripsholm, carrying 713 German…
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CIGARITTE FUND.—The Victoria League's 21st list of subscribers has just closed £100 plus exchange will be cabled immediately. This will…
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NEW YORK, May 17. A.A.P.— Operation losses on land on sea, and in the air had been less than had been anticipated, President…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The U.S. Government has revived the defective wire scandal with a civil suit against the Anaconda Wire &…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Cabinet to Review Suits for Ex-servicemen Milk Strike Advice of Baby Centres
SYDNEY.—The issue of civilian suits to discharged soldiers will be reviewed by War Cabinet in Canberra next Tuesday, the acting Mothers of small children in whose diet milk is an essential part are becoming anxious at the prospect of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Complaints that manufacturers have declined to continue making civilian suits for discharged servicemen at the price…
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VANCOUVER, Wednesday.—Canada has decided to increase allowances to discharged servicemen by £4 11s 5d a month…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bishop Fatally Wounded on Jap Prison Ship
The Bishop of the Roman Catholic mission at Alexishafen. Dr. Francis Wolf, was among the 60 missionaries fatally wounded or killed outright when Allied bombers strafed a Japanese prison ship off the New Guinea coast…
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LONDON, May 18. A.A.P.—The Foreign Office, announcing the arrival of the war prisoner exchange ships at Barcelona, says that so far…
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LAMBTON BOMB VICTIMS' AUXILIARY will hold a jumble sale at Lambton on a date to be arranged. At a special meetings of the auxiliary…
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CAIRO, Thursday.—It isn't the German invader, but civil war, which is mortally threatening our future, striking at the…
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MELBOURNE. Thursday.—Price control would die six months after the war if the Commonwealth were not granted increased powers, said…
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When he spoke at the agricultural bureaus conference at Branxton yesterday on the organisation through war agricultural comittees, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle's £445,000 to War Loan
Said to be "practically the final figure," £445,000 was invested by Newcastle in the First Victory War Loan…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday.—The Notional War Finance Director (Mr. Ted Gamble) announces that Mrs. Roosevelt. Queen…
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Newcastle Returned Soliders' District Council will be asked to convene a regional conference to discuss subjects brought forward by sub-branches…
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SYDNEY. Thursday.—Maxwell Henry Kleinschafer 31, of Armcliffe pleaded "Guilty" to having wilfully delayed delivery of mail…
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