Thais End War With Allies
SAN FRANCISCO, August 17. A.A.P.—The Japanese-operated Radio Bangkok reported that the Regency Council of Thailand proclaimed…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 72 of 105
First Norwegian War Criminal Executed
OSLO, Aug. 17. A.A.P.—Reidol Haaland, a Gestapo torturer, and the first Norwegian war criminal sentenced to death by the Supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Delay in News of War Captives
SYDNEY, Friday.—Information on the whereabouts of recovered Australian prisoners in Japanese hands will be given to relatives immediately…
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SYDNEY: Postwar security of the mining industry, raised sharply by the sudden fold-up of the Pacific war, will be discussed at a convention of miners' delegates from all States in Sydney on August 27. Newcastle will be represented…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Journey's End It Was Magnificent, But It Was Not War
Looking back it is hard to catch the mood of September, 1939. We were a different people in those days; more self-centred, less mindful of the community in which we lived. It took a long time and many a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Adopt-a-soldier" Appeal Continues
Weekly subscribers to the A.C.F. "Adopt-a-Soldier" Appeal are asked by the Newcastle Secretary (Mrs. Legoe) to continue their donations…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Theatres "I Love A soldier"
Paulette Goddard and Sonnie Tufts, successfully teamed by Paramount last year in "So Proudly We Hall," are brought together again in an unremarkable and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tired Of War
SYDNEY.—An appeal for a house, printed last week in a Sydney suburban newspaper, would melt a heart of granite…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Continue Some War Contracts
CANBERRA, Sunday.—War Cabinet decided to continue temporarily certain war contracts, but production will be kept to a minimum to save…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Will to War Still Threre"
At St. Philip's Presbyterian Church, Rev. A. R. McVittie said that though Japan had been defeated, her national ideology…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Archbishop Griffin on War Motives
LONDON, Aug. 19. A.A.P.—The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (Dr. Griffin), in a broadcast said: "There is no need to pretend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Message of Hope to War Captives
LABUAN, Aug. 19.—Leaflets with a message to all prisoners of war are being dropped by R.A.A.F. planes in north Borneo on behalf of the…
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LONDON, August 19. A.A.P.— After bearing a charmed life in some of the war's toughest operations, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The World Can No Longer Afford War
The evils that may follow in the wake of such scientific discoveries as the atomic bomb and rocket projectiles are terrifying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Threat Looms Civil War Looms In China
NEW YORK, Sunday: Communist General, Chu Teh, has warned Chiang Kai-shek that there is a danger of civil war in China unless Communist wishes are met. Simultaneously an unconfirmed re-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Atom Bomb "Reminder That War Is Unclean"
LONDON, August 19. A.A.P.— The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Fisher), preaching at a thanksgiving service in St. Paul's,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jap Savagery Revealed 80 War Criminals' Names Known
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The names of 80 Japanese war criminals who were individually responsible for barbarities and cruelties have been cabled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man o' War's Strapper Broke in Turn Again
Within an hour and a half after beating Man o' War and Moorland in Newcastle Victory Cup on Saturday, Turn Again had Seen hosed and dried, had a bran mash, to cool him down, and had eaten a bag of lucerne. In the next stall but one, George Jefferies was drying off Man o' War. He glanced…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Textbooks for Soldiers
CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said that £25,000 would be provided for text-books for vocational and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Retain High Taxation Mayor on Care of Soldiers
The cost of putting men into the front line was high, and it would be equally costly to restore them completely to their places in civil…
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