The Letter Box War Crimes
Though peace is here and the restrictions temporarily lifted. I did not spend a "happy" Christmas; "Vengeance is Mine, saith…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1946
1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 71
Ten Executed for War Crimes
LONDON, Jan. 6. A.A.P.—Ten war criminals were executed at the week-end—eight in Leningrad, one in Copenhagen, and one in Prague…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Former Prisoner of War Owns Bobalong Daughter
BOBALONG DAUGHTER, winner of the third Merewether Stake at N.J.C. greyhound meeting on Saturday, is raced by Mr. Frank Wright,…
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SYDNEY: Complaints that returned servicemen were being enticed into two-up schools and preyed upon by men who had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soviet Denies War On Turks
LONDON, Monday: Soviet Newsagency, quoted by Reuter's, denied reports in the French newspaper, the Paris "Matin,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Million a Year in War Loans
From March, 1940, until October, 1945, Newcastle district subscribed £5,709,510 to war loans, and purchased War Saving Certificates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Tortures On Ambon Told At War Court
AMBON, Tuesday: Japanese placed a huge bomb dump in an Australian P.O.W. camp, according to the affidavit by a captain of 2/21 Australian Infantry Battalion, who was acting adjutant for P.O.W's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Falls 80 Feet to His Death
SYDNEY.—Sergeant Frank Arthur Cox, 32, married, of Hull Road, Pennant Hills, last night fell 80 feet from the window of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Claims Property
SYDNEY: Stanley Richard Green has returned to Sydney to claim the 40,000-acre block, near Bourke,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Lambton Welcome Home
Fifty New Lambton residents who have been discharged from the services are listed and many more will be added to the honour list for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Brides
WIVES AND CHILDREN of Australian and New Zealand servicemen leaving England recently for their new homes. Right is Mrs. Moir, of Coventry, with daughter Wendy, en route to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Denies Russia at War With Turkey
LONDON, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—The Soviet news agency, quoted by Reuter, denied rumours, which the French newspaper "Paris Matin"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →3 Sentenced to Death for War Crimes
BUDAPEST, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—The People's Court sentenced to death as war criminals, three of Hungary's most prominent Nazi supporters. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Treating with Nazis During War Denied "Herald" Service
LONDON, January 8.—A denial that anybody in a responsible position in Britain had ever taken the initiative for opening negotiations with Germany in 1941 or at any other time during the war was given by the British Foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bomb Dump in P.O.W. CAMP Evidence at War Criminal Trial
AMBON, Tuesday.—A bomb dump containing 200,00000lb of high explosive was built by the Japanese in the middle of an Australian prisoner of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Preparing For Big Welcome Home
A combined meeting of the Hamilton-Broadmeadow Welcome Home Committee, Hamilton R.S.L. and the Red Cross, will be held tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Raise £6600 for War Veterans
Newcastle police effort in the recent appeal for War Veterans' Homes realised £6600. Yesterday the Superintendent (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Memory Feats at War Crimes Trial
AMBON, January 9.—Amazing feats of memory were performed by native witnesses in giving evidence of identification at the trial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Loan Organisation Has Been Re-named
With the end of the war the War Loan organisation has been re-named the Commonwealth Loans and National Savings, the Senior Loans representative in Newcastle (Mr. McClintock) announced today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Normal Ocean Travel Long Way Off: After-effects Of War
When you hear Australian brides clamoring for passages to U.S.A., see a waiting list of 2000 names for ships to New Zealand and the few men who can book passages to London travelling in troopdeck accommodation, you should realise we cannot fight a…
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