Bowls Shield For Blind Soldiers
The President of the Northumberland Women's Bowling Association (Mrs. Moore) has donated a shield in aid of the Blind Soldiers'…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1946
1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 71
Tighe's Hill Soldiers Welcomed Back
Parishioners of the Church of Mary Immaculate, Tighe's Hill, who had served with the forces uaring the war were welcomed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jap Constitution to Outlaw War
TOKIO, June 9. A.A.P.—The Privy Council at an extraordinary meeting with Emperor Hirohito, approved with minor revisions, Japan's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Italian War Prisoner on Assault Charge
SYDNEY, Sunday.—An Italian prisoner of war, Giovenali appeared at Liverpool Court yesterday, charged with assault with intent to rape. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grim Picture of Germ War "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, June 9.—A grim picture of the possibility of biological warfare crippling a nation through mass infection of the population is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Less Than 10 p.c. War Criminals For Trial
HONOLULU, June 9. A.A.P.—The Chairman of the War Crimes Commission (Lord Wright) predicted that less than 10 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.J.C. Reply to Soldiers' Protest
The Secretary of Newcastle Jockey Club (Mr. J. Hibberd) has asked Wickham-Carrington sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Professor's Warning of New World War
NEW YORK, Monday: "Irresponsible officials are happily planning a new world war, though scientists have told us again and again that the atom bomb may extinguish all human life," said Dr. Howard Mumford Jones…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Still Holding Soldier's £25
SYDNEY.—Regent Street police still have at their station £25 handed in by a young woman who said it was dropped in her lap in a city…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded A Detective, Is Allegation
SYDNEY.—Charged with having wounded a detective with intent to murder, Gail Herald MacFarland, 19, U.S. mercant seaman, was today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Costs Above Budget Estimate
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Although a year has passed since hostilities ceased, there is still a month to run of the financial year. The war has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First War Criminals Sentenced in Athens
ATHENS, June 11. A.A.P.—A special tribunal sentenced to life imprisonment an Italian, Lieutenant Giovanni Revaliand, and a Bulgarian,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tojo Will Take Responsibility For Pacific War
TOKIO, June 11. A.A.P.—Dr. Ichori Kiyose, who is defending General Tojo at the war crimes trials to begin on Thursday, said Tojo should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Audience Not Dismayed At Third War Fears "Herald" Service
LONDON, June 11.—Mr. Norman Dodds, a Labour member of the House of Commons, who recently visited Europe, said at Blackpool:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russia Doesn't Want War, Says Reporter After Five Years There
NEW YORK, Tuesday: Back in New York after five years in the Soviet, U.S. foreign correspondent Eddy Gilmore says that Russia's people are tired, and even if they weren't…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Italy Close To Civil War As Battles Rage With Bombs And Artillery
ROME, Wednesday: Italy stood close to evil war last night as Monarchists, Communists, police and Republicans fought for hours in Naples and 100,000 Republicans marched through Rome to demand immediate proclamation of the Republic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"All Help to Soldiers" Ironworkers State Policy
The Secretary of Newcastle branch of the Ironworkers' Association (Mr. R. C. Morgan) last night said that the policy of the union was to assist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ex-Soldiers Build Furniture Suite
A suite of furniture built by returned soldier technical trainees in Newcastle will be shown at the reestablishment exhibition at Nesca…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ex-soldiers Demand Justice
SYDNEY: Spokesmen of ex-servicemen's organisations said today that former fighting men women were not getting justice under existing preference legislation. "WE WANT ACTION now, or ex-servicemen will want to Know…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Outlook Gloomy For Soldier Settlement
CANBERRA: Evidence from Commonwealth sources confirms the gloomy forecast that it will be years before all ex-servicemen who want to become farmers are settled on the land. The Commonwealth is unable—…
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