Sinatra Again Rejected for War Service
NEW YORK, Friday: Frank Sinatra has again been rejected for military service after a special medical examination…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 105
"Horseracing Useless" M.H.R. Urges All-in War Effort
CANBERRA, Friday.—"More money is spent on useless racehorses than on children's education," the Deputy Leader of the Opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Singleton Soldier Dies in P.o.w. Camp
SINGLETON, Friday.—Mrs. E. R. Stowe has been advised that her son, Private Walter Francis Stowe, died of illness while a prisoner of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nazi Soldiers to Clean Mess
WASHINGTON, Friday: "It might not be a bad idea to use German ex-soldiers to clean up some of the mess I saw in the Crimea,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Problems Worry Japan
NEW YORK, March 4. A.A.P.—Tokio Radio states that the Imperial Cabinet has adopted a programme of streamlining Japan's departmental…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finland at War With Germany
LONDON, March 4. A.A.P.—The Government of Finland has formally declared war on Germany, it is officially announced in Helsinki…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Says Troops Lack Equipment in Islands War
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Sending Australian soldiers into battle with their present equipment, was like sending them to fight with a stick,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Births Exceed War Losses
NEW YORK, Monday.—Twelve births in the United States have offset each American battle death in the war, according to census…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Pension for Airman-Soldier
SYDNEY, Monday.—Because his claims for a pension have been rejected an ex-airman and ex-soldier, who is confined to his bed, has to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bulgarians Killed War Prisoners
LONDON, March 6. A.A.P.—The War Minister (Sir James Grigg) told the House of Commons that some British war prisoners in Bulgaria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →School Posters for War Loan
A school poster exhibition, arranged by the Newcastle branch of the Teachers' Federation to publicise the Third Victory Loan, will be held in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canada's Part In The War
G E N E R A L SIR THOMAS Blarney's welcome to the Canadian units now serving with the Australian Military Services is a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Prisoner Guilty of Attempted Rape
PERTH, Tuesday.—Luigi Ciccone, an Italian prisoner of war, was found guilty and remanded for sentence in the Perth Criminal Court on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Exhibition of U.s. Photos. for War Memorial Ward
Illustrating, in sequence, life in America before arid during the war, and including Pearl Harbor, an exhibition of several hundred pictures…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canada's Big Naval War Will Soon Turn To Pacific
Announcement by the Canadian Navy Minister (Mr. Angus Macdonald,) that the Royal Canadian Navy would fight in the Pacific, has focussed attention on the fine job that Canada has done at sea in this war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Killed in Action
Mrs. J. F. McQuarrie, of Myall-road, Waratah, has been informed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Officer Killed in Action
On the recommendation of the Electrical Engineer and Manager (Mr. Allbut) Greater Newcastle Electric Supply Committee placed on record…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Major War Criminals
LONDON, March 7. A.A.P.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden), replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Change of Pace in Pacific War
GUAM, March 7. A.A.P.—Vice-Admiral Mitscher told an Associated Press correspondent on board the flagship in the Western Pacific that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Denies Death of Prisoner of War
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—As far as practicable Nazi and Fascist prisoners of war were segregated from those with opposite political belief,…
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