Soldier Gaoled for Night
Alighting from a tram in Lambton Road, near the Gully Line at 9 p.m., a woman was followed and attacked by a soldier…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 47
Boy Wounded
Allen Grice, 4, of Campbell's Hill, West Maitland, received wounds on the right side of the head and face when he was accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£2185 to Repair War Memorials
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Federal Cabinet to-day voted £2185 to repair war memorials in France and Belgium, damaged in the last war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legion Plans to Aid Former War Prisoners
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Australian Legion of Ex-servicemen and Women will launch a campaign to obtain adequate care and treatment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Sent to Gaol; Assaulted Woman
Ronald Lewis Bridge, 25, soldier, was ordered six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in the Newcastle…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Servicemen's organisations and the Co-ordinating Council of Legacy Clubs would discuss to-morrow the distribution of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain To Wage War On Fires
LONDON: Fifteen hundred lives are lost and damage amounting to £10 million is caused by fires in Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →G-men Muster Force for New Crime War
In a New York freight terminal, where big, loaded motor trucks crowd in day and night with goods from all parts of the city and State, engines of waiting trucks all have one essential part missing—so that no one can jump into the cabin, start up the engine and drive off with the load…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Churches Wage War Against New Film "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Catholic and Protestant churches in Los Angeles have opened war against David Selznick's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ex-Soldier, Wife Evicted By Government
CANBERRA, Friday.—Sobbing bitterly, Mrs. Gordon Butt to-day stood by with her husband, Mr. G. Butt, as employees of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Evicted Ex-Soldier To Fling Badge At Canberra R.S.L.
CANBERRA: Gordon Butt. 30-year-old mechanic, who was evicted with his wife by the Department of the Interior from their house in Ainslie yesterday, said today he was disgusted with the Canberra sub-branch of the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ten Wounded In Rome Riot
ROME, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—Police broke up a riot that had been in progress for an hour among about 1000 former Fascists and partisans who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Annamese Can Fight Guerilla War Indefinitely"
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—The French in Indo-China are fighting a type of elusive guerilla opposition that the Annamese can prolong indefinitely, says the Saigon correspondent of the "New York Times."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germans Replace Back Room War Scientists "Herald" Service
LONDON, Jan. 20.—British scientists—the back room boys of the Supply Ministry's armaments design at Whitchurch—are protesting against…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fishing School Opens For Ex-Soldiers
SYDNEY, Monday.—The opening of the Commonwealth fishing school at Cronulla to-day was an important and progressive step in the history…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£100,000 State Vote for Anzac House Site
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Cabinet to-day decided to vote £100,000 for the purchase of a site for Anzac House. This was announced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paid For War Bride Stowaway
LONDON, Tuesday: Mrs. Rosena Eleanor Younger, of Brixton(London), and her four-years-old son, have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British War on Blackmarket In Building
LONDON, Jan. 21. A.A.P.—The Minister for Works (Mr. Tomlinson), declaring war on blackmarket builders, announced he had made an order…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missing Soldiers in Wrong Convoy
JERUSAEM, Jan. 21. A.A.P.—Palestine police and security forces began a widespread search for two British soldiers, who left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac House to Be Part of Cultural Centre
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Anzac House would be the inaugural part of the replanned Macquarie-street, the Premier (Mr. McKell) said…
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