Selling Rural Land in War Ban Suggestion For Premiers
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Premiers' conference would be asked to decide whether or not agricultural and pastoral lands should be sold…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 105
Returned Soldier
Sir,—I enlisted for the war when men who had served in the last war were appealing from public platforms for men to fight again to save…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Most of the persons on the proposed Reinstatement Committees should have rendered war service, said Senator…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Housing Losses in War
LONDON, June 15. A.A.P.—Over 400,000 dwelling in the London civil defence region were destroyed or damaged beyond repair by the enemy…
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LONDON, June 15. A.A.P.—Many examples of wasteful expenditure on warlike stores, taken together, conclusively show that the daily…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Social for Relatives of War Prisoners
More than 100 members of the Newcastle branch of the Prisoner of War Relatives' Association attended the social in Winn's Shortland Hall…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The absence of Japanese submarines in recent weeks is the greatest mystery of the Pacific war, said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Policeman to Stop War" People's Hope for Security Council
NEW YORK, June 15. A.A.P.—"It is our view that the peoples of the world wish to establish a Security Council that is a…
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AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND Depot roster for the coming week is as follows: Tuesday, Cheerio Club: Wednesday, R. S. S. A. I. League, Newcastle. Stockton and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Body Of Allied Soldier In Danube Was Garrotted
LONDON, Sunday: American troops in southern Germany are seeking the murderer of an Allied soldier, whose body was found floating in the Danube. HE had been garrotted with wire…
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Gunner Clarence J. Chandler, who was a prisoner of war in Germany for four years, arrived back at his home in Harle Street, Hamilton, last night. GUNNER CHANDLER. who is the…
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With a bullet found in the left side of his chest, the body of George Henry Thomas Kelly. 48. soldier, was found yesterday in a paddock near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communications to Wounded Soldiers
SYDNEY, Monday.—An Army spokesman said it was not always possible to send letters or telegrams from next-of-kin direct to hospitals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gallant Rescue of Wounded Soldier
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Racing forward without a weapon and without covering fire to within 20 yards of an enemy light machine-gun post…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press War Brides Ship in [?]
SAN FRANCISCO, Monday. (AAP). —Three hundred and eighty Australian and New Zealand war brides and 163 children have arrived on a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New Phase in Air War on Japan
NEW YORK, June 18. A.A.P.—Second phase of the Superfortress attacks against the Japanese home islands began to-day with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Three to Make Plans for War Trial
LONDON, June 18. A.A.P.—The time and place of the trials of Goering, Ribbentrop, Hess and other Nazi leaders will be one of the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Victims Kicked in U.S. Hospital ("Herald" Service.)
NEW YORK, June 18.—Patients in the Long Island returned servicemen's neuro-psychiatric hospital had been kicked and struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →685,000 Acres in Two States Settle Soldiers
CANBERRA, Monday.—Queensland and New South Wales have submitted to the Commonwealth 24 projects for soldiers' settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Object to Old Tamworth Gaol
SYDNEY, Monday.—An Army District Court-martial was told that conditions at the old gaol at Tamworth were only conducive to…
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