Ex-Soldiers Want Women's Jobs
Complaints that many women still hold wartime jobs while ex-serviceman are unable to find work have been made by discharged…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1946
1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 71
Warning Of Mutiny As 400 Soldiers Stayed On Ship
KABAUL, Tuesday: Four hundred Ninth Division men, who refused to leave a troopship to make way for men going home, were deprived of food and water and warned of mutinous conduct. Finally, when Major-General K.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed In Action
Mr. J. Cleary, of 8 Watson Street, Islington, has been notified that his son, Private Laurence James…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →— The Letter Box — Winning Of The War
It's really remarkable how we people learn things! I was always under the impression that America. Russia and the British…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Women War Workers Say They're Not Tired
"TIRED OUT? Not a bit of it. We're just as full of vim now as when the war started." This reply to suggestions that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →History of Manus War Transformed a Cannibal Island
THE PAPUAN cannibals of the Island of Manus in the Admiralty group used to sail in their outrigger canoes with square sails…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Cancels £17½M. War Orders
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—War contracts valued at more than £17,500,000, were cancelled by the Commonwealth Government between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australia Still to Try Jap War Criminals
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Australia will still try Japanese war criminals held in Borneo, although British troops have now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death Penalty For War Criminals: Demanded By Russia
LONDON, Wednesday: A motion by Uruguay before the General Committee of the United Nations, urging that the death penalty should not be inflicted on war criminals, was temporarily postponed after hot protests by Russian and Ukrainian delegates…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lectured on Morals; Stole Soldier's Wife
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An employee of the A.B.C. who was stated to have recently spoken over the air on morality, culture and the…
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Mr. J. Cleary, of Watson street, Islington, has been advised that his son. Private Laurence James Cleary, is reported killed in action in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Returned Men Replacing Women in Jobs"
Stores in Newcastle have their work cut out to absorb returned men whose places have been taken by women, but it is being done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goering Stung To Fury At War Trials; Hess Pales
NUREMBURG, Friday: Goering was stung to fury, and Rudolf Hess turned pale and clutched the edge of the prisoners' box during the Nazi war criminal trials here yesterday. M. Pierre Mournier one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£20 Million in War Gear for Dutch Handed Over in Borneo
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Australian stores and equipment worth more than £20 million are reported to have been handed over by the Australian authorities to Dutch forces in Borneo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Auxiliary
Newcastle Returned Soldiers' League Women's Auxiliary will hold the first meeting for the year in the City Hall to-day at 2.30 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →House Returned Men First Move to Debar Alien Refugees
BRISBANE, Friday.—A telegram has been sent to Mr. Chifley by the President of the Demobilised. Servicemen Association (Mr. A. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War on Russia Was "Early Nazi Aim"
LONDON, Saturday: All Germany's aggressive moves against European states were actually only a preliminary to war on Russia, stated Lieut.-General Rudenko, chief Russian prosecutor, at the Nuremburg trials…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of Chinese Mistress News to Jap War Criminal
HONGKONG, Saturday: When he arrived from Japan today, Hongkong's No. 1 war criminal, middle-aged beetle-browed Colonel Kennosuki Noma, heard of the execution of his favorite mistress…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War's Richest Winner Posthumous V.C. to Viscount's Son "Herald" Service
LONDON, Feb. 8.—The richest man to win the Victoria Cross in the war was named to-night. He was Lieut. Christopher (Dick)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Killed When Struck by Tram
SYDNEY, Friday.—A soldier who was fatally injured when struck by a tram, near Prince Henry Hospital, La Perouse, early to-day, has been…
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