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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: A storm of protest in New Jersey and other States has followed the sentencing to death of a U.S. soldier on a charge of killing two Japanese civilians. THE soldier is Joseph Hicswa now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY: Frank Leonard Albert Beggs, a sapper in the A.I.F. was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter following an inquest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four servicemen Privates R. Jackson. J. Jackson. D. Sinclair and G. Laughton, were welcomed home at Marks Point On behalf of the committee, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A demand for proper facilities for training returned men, to enable them to make good the years spent on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Senior Constable John Oliver Kidd, 59, was seriously wounded with a revolver at his home at Armadale police station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mrs. Vavina Vera Murphy, 48, married, domestic duties, was shot, through the left thigh at her home…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canon Withycombe (at last night's meeting of Mayfield branch of the United Nations Association): "As I've always said, Mrs. Longworth,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle branch of the Australian Prisoner of War Relatives' Association will hold its final meeting in Winn's Shortland Room at 2.30 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TOKIO, January 17. A.A.P.—Australia and New Zealand named Emperor Hirohito Pacific war criminal No. 1 on lists that have been submitted to General MacArthur,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.—The Government has nominated Mr. Justice E. Harvey Northcroft, of the Supreme Court Bench as a member…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LAE, Friday: There are now 54 Japanese officers and 192 other ranks in the war criminals' compound at Rabaul. Military courts, so far, have sentenced five Japanese to death and one to life imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON.—Following a debate in the House of Lords recently, on the report of the War Memorials Advisory Council, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Friday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced to-night a Full Cabinet decision that the present rates of war risk bonus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Announcing the new £70,000,000 loan, to be known as the Security Loan, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said the money would be used exclusively to meet commitments arising out of the war, especially the rehabilitation of Australian service personnel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Jan. 18.—By staying in their jobs instead of returning to their pre-war existence, 1,000,000 women working in war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Part of Newcastle Hospital should be set aside to provide speedy treatment of ex-service personnel, members said at a meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A peacetime battle—carrying in its train more worry than actual war—faces thousands of men and women already released or yet to be demobilised from Australia's fighting forces. It is the battle of employment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The mortality rate among convicted war criminals appeared to him to be remarkably low, said the State President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Sunday.—When permanent memorials are erected, official plaques would be affixed to graves of Army personnel in civil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Baron Takasaki faces the court at Morotai charged with having ordered the execution of two Australian prisoners of war near…
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