"No Work, No Eat" Life in Nazi War Prison Camps
Private W. J. Gallagher, A.I.F., who was a prisoner of war in German camps for more than two years, returned to his home in Thomas…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,418 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 121
Soldiers' Council Criticised
Withdrawal of delegates from the District Council of sub-branches of the Returned Soldiers' League was suggested at a meeting of…
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ACF officials are gradually canvassing Newcastle's industries for soldier "adoptions." The response to date…
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Sir,—Apparently with perfect nonchalance, the Vice-president of the U.S.A. War Production Board (Mr. Wilson) tells the Army Ordnance…
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HAMILTON RED CROSS.—The fortnightly meeting of the Hamilton Red Cross Branch will be held on Monday at 2 p.m in the Council Chambers…
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After more than two years in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, Pte. Walter G. Buckley has returned to his home at Toronto. He was in…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—An American soldier, Leslie Earle Thomas, 30, was charged in the Police Court to-day with having stolen £190 from Mrs…
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NEW LAMDTON RED CROSS.—During the first six months of the financial year £1250 was collected by New Lambton Red Cross branch for…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The reports of Japanese atrocities may affect the strategy of the Pacific war, says Hanson Baldwin in the "New York…
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WASHINGTON.—The US Treasury announces that American armed forces are buying war bonds on an ever-expanding scale…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The announcement that the Soviet Supreme Council is considering a change of the Russian Constitution to increase…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The grim story of Jap. torture of Americans in the Philippines has already stimulated America's war effort more than anything else since Pearl Harbor…
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The District Council of the Returned Soldiers' League will be asked on Wednesday night to take up a move, initiated by Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Political Science Summer School Retain War Controls After Armistice Prices Commissioner Advocates Regulated Private Enterprise
CANBERRA, Sunday.—The continued operation of many of the direct controls imposed during the war throughout the period of transition from war to peace was advocated by the Prices Commissioner (Mr. Copland) in a paper…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The mutilated body of Harry Arthur Bruce, 39, single, a returned soldier, was found on the railway line near Newtown…
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VICTORIA LEAGUE:—A meeting of spervisors, of the officers centres will be held on Thursday morning February 3. at 10.30 o'clock…
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It was emphasised by speakers at Maitland Pigeon Club's first social that breeders of pigeons were assisting the war effort by…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—To investigate Japanese war crimes against Australians in the South-west Pacific area a special commission of inquiry has been appointed under the Chief Justice of Queensland (Sir William Webb)…
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"It is not the fault of the Japanese that they are yellow like their hearts; we will have to get rid of the outlaws," said Mr. Hill…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—Details of a vicious Japanese atrocity that occurred in the Manila area, in the Phillippines, in March,…
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