Land For Soldier Settlement Cost £4,747,315
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A total of 120 estates had been resumed for soldier settlement in New South Wales at a cost to the Government of £4,747,315,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 47
World Watches War On Cholera
One focus of world interest in the last few days has been on Egypt, where medical authorities are fighting an outbreak of Asiatic cholera. Should this apocalyptic force…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Allotment of War Homes on Need
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Housing (Mr Lemmon) announced a change in the system for allotting war service homes. He said whereas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Threat Of Civil War In Korea
SEOUL (Korea), Oct. 24. A.A.P.—The Korean Chief of Internal Affairs in North Korea told a meeting at Pyongyang that the Peace Preservation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Finds Wife, Daughter Fatally Wounded
LAUNCESTON, Sunday.—When he returned to his home near Mole Creek early yesterday morning, Mr. Rennell Harrison found his wife and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Weapons For War On Disease
Has the day passed when a major scientific discovery—a new microbe and a new vaccine to destroy it—can create a furore, not only in the medical, but the entire world?…
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NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.): Church bells tolled as the army transport., Joseph V. Connolly, entered New York harbor today with the bodies of 6200 American soldiers killed on European battlefields…
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NEW YORK, October 27. A.A.P.— Church bells tolled, and flags flew at half-mast, a salute of 21 guns boomed over the harbour, and 100 planes…
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Three Australian coastal ships with distinguished war records are now being prepared for their return to civil duties. They are the Bungaree, Manunda, and Manoora, which belong to the…
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HOBART, Monday.—The Australian Funeral Directors' Association will renew its offer at its conference tomorrow to provide funeral expenses…
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SYDNEY.—Military and civil police are still searching the bush in the Hornsby-Cowan area for an army private who leapt from a fast-moving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →India and Pakistan "Near War"
NEW DELHI, Oct. 28. A.A.P.—"India and Pakistan are poised perilously on the verge of a war which neither would be able to sustain militarily or economically without ruin," says the…
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NEW DELHI, Wed. (A.A.P.): The Moslem Leader, Ali Jinnah, on Monday night, nearly precipitated war between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, says the London "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Lahore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Red Riots In Paris Amid Civil War Warnings
PARIS, Wed. (A.A.P. & "Sun" Special): Twelve hundred police, with armed troops in reserve, failed to hold a crowd of 8000 Communists, who smashed through barricades here last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Letter Box War Pensions
As an ex-Digger who served in two World Wars I think an overhaul of pensions is long overdue. I receive a 100 per cent. pension…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wants War Homes Interest Reduced
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The R.S.S.A.I.L.A. Congress to-day decided to ask the Commonwealth Government to reduce from 3¾ per cent. to 2 per…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Son Born To Dachau War Criminal
MUNICH, Oct. 29. A.A.P.—Ilse Koch, wife of the Dachau Camp commandant, who is alleged to have incited her husband to choose tattooed…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The reading of a letter from General MacArthur's Supreme Headquarters in Tokyo, alleging delay by the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Says Government Losing Civil War In China
NANKING, October 29. A.A.P.—As far as the loss of men and material is concerned, foreign military observers believe the Chinese Government is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mural As War Memorial
Mr. Melville Haysom, a Queensland painter, donated this mural to Brisbane Industrial High School as a war memorial. It represents the death of learus, of mythology, who is said to have made the first flight, using wings attached with wax. When he flew too close to the sun the wax…
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