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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 70 of 105
RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday: After long study of war crimes and criminals, the Inter-American Judicial Committee has decided that the head of a State which wages a war of aggression is criminally liable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GUAM, Saturday.—Until Japan's surrender is an official fact there will be no slackening in the offensive against her. Plans for new atomic-bomb and other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MANILA, Aug. 13.—"The war goes on as usual," said a spokesman at General MacArthur's Headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is inevitable that cynics, seeing the advantageous position that the eleventh-hour declaration of war on Japan will give Russia at the peace…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Aug. 12.—The liberation of many thousands of Allied prisoners in Japanese hands—the War Office has listed Empire captives at 43,000—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, August 12. A.A.P.—The war against Japan continues. No reply has yet been received from Tokio to a message sent on Saturday on behalf of the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China accepting the Japanese peace offer, but stipulating that at the moment of surrender the authority of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The Pacific war is not expected to end for two or three days, possibly longer. This was announced officially tonight as the world waited for Japan's reply to an Allied Note defining the role of the Emperor on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Monday—Application of publicity censorship to the Australian Press will cease immediately the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Serious" difficulties have been encountered by the Federal Government in the disposal of surplus war goods worth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHUNGKING, Monday: There are indications that plans are being prepared by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek for the rapid reoccupation of Japanese-held China, possibly with airborne troops, when Japan surrenders. Observers regard a recent order by the Chinese Communist Commander Chu-teh as an open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mayfield A.L.P. wants to know the reason for the sharp rise in the cost of building materials and fittings. "The home built for £600 or £700 before the war would cost more than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A scheme for the provision of a home for every returned soldier and for parents on the birth of their fourth child was advocated at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PERTH, Tuesday.—Saying that the Commonwealth Government was anxious that Australian prisoners of war in Japanese hands…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE CURIOUS relationship between the Japanese Army and Government gives significance to the fact that Genera Seishiro…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Aug. 14. A.A.P.—The first trial of Austrian war criminals has opened in Vienna, says an Exchange Telegraph report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Materials need in State and Commonwealth Government departments may be manufactured in the Bathurst and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Important talks on matters requiring immediate decision because of the early end or the war were held to-day by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Every member of the United Nations made vital contributions to victory in the Pacific. Some contributed men, others ships, still others raw materials, war supplies, and food, but all gave to the best of their abilities to defeat Japan and thus bring…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japan has surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. This was announced in a dramatic midnight broadcast from London by the British Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and heard in Newcastle at 9 a.m. The Emperor of Japan has also undertaken to give the necessary orders for surrender of Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"We also think, especially at this time, of the prisoners in Japanese hands, of our friends in the Dominions of Australia and New Zealand, in India, in Burma, and in those Colonial…
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