War Bride's Yank Thought Bed Was Lunch Counter
SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.—A pretty 26-year-old Australian war bride won a divorce from her American veteran husband…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 47
Resent Slurs On War Memorials
Police who arrested a man on April 11 for drinking beer near a war memorial were to be congratulated, the Secretary of Wickham sub-branch…
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Sir,—A report in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" (9/6/'47) stated that the executive officers of the A.L.P. industrial groups had decided to…
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LONDON, June 10. A.A.P.—Budapest Radio states that a People's Tribunal found the Hungarian Archduke Josef, of Hapsburg, guilty in…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday: Daniel Taranow (21), who served 30 months in Bermuda during the war. admits that he shot and…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Gerald Patrick Good, who recently offered to sell one of his eyes in exchange for help and sustenance for his…
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Giving evidence in the Newcastle District Court k the Harman-Fren breach of promise case, the defendant Basil Glen Harman, admitted that he had proposed marriage to Mrs. Fren on one occasion after her wedding, by…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Following a family quarrel at Magill, a suburb of Adelaide, to-night, one man is dying and another is in a…
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The Secretary of the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association Newcastle Appeal (Mrs. F. Shepherd) has announced a further…
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While he was in bed at Greta Camp on May 19, he was the victim of a vicious, savage and unprovoked attack by another soldier, a serviceman told a Court Martial today at Greta Camp…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. H. Figg, 92, of Petersham, who served in the Navy from 1873 to 1881 and fought in the Basuto and Zulu wars,…
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CANBERRA. Thursday.—There were no fears in America of war with Russia, the American Ambassador to Australia (Mr. Robert…
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LONDON, June 12. A.A.P.—Heinrich Kopf, German Social Dem[?]erat leader, formed new Provincial Government in Hanover Province…
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"Australia is No. 1 on the emigration list of British boys," two British servicemen stationed in Burma stated in a letter to the Mayor (Ald…
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NANKING, June 15. A.A.P.—The Government's Central News Agency charged that "a certain nation"—the Chinese Press term for Russia—planned and is directing the current Communist offensive in…
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SYDNEY.—Chief of the Australian General Staff (Lieut-General V. A. H. Sturdee) arrived by air today from England and America. He said that…
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LONDON, June 15.—Once more the east-west battle rages. First came the Moscow conference, then the Marshall "Salvation of Europe" doctrine after the Truman doctrine, and now Moscow has set the pace by events in Hungary, Austria…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Britain and the United States would be in a serious position if Russia declared war, said the Chief of the Australian General Staff (Lieut.-General Sturdee) to-day…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z). Tuesday.—Postal authorities are investigating a radio hoax which startled listeners on Sunday night when a…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Acting Federal President of the Returned Servicemen's League (Mr. G. Holland) said to-night that the…
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