Suburban and District Lambton Holds Final Welcome Home
Lambton Welfare and Welcome Home Committee held its final welcome home tea and presentation of Greater Newcastle Council and local service…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 47
Engineers Study Effects Of War On Methods Of Production Here
Reflected in the lectures and the business papers of the Institution of Engineers' 1947 Confeience, at present being held in Newcastle, are the effects of the last war. THE institution, as a whole, has just…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General MacArthur Exaggerated Jap War Losses
"A merciful Providence has guided us in this great victory," said General Douglas MacArthur after he released the official communique dealing with the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in early March, 1943…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Civil War Threat In France As Turmoil Grows; Premier Resigns
PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.): With France strike-ridden and in turmoil, the Socialist Premier (M. Ramadier) has resigned with his Cabinet, and Leon Blum, 75-year-old Socialist leader, has consented to try to form a new Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gave Wrong Age, A.W.L. Soldier To Be Discharged
Found "Guilty" by a District Court-martial of having made a false statement regarding his age for enlistment, and having been A.W.L. for 30 days,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"War Widow's" Pose Lasted 18 Years
ADELAIDE, Thursday.—A penniless spinster, aged 63, admitted in Adelaide Court to-day that for 18 years she had obtained about £600 in war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Started War Plant As Gift for Girl Friend: U.s. General
NEW YORK, Fri. (O.S.R): Major-General Meyers hit a new low in his record of charges and counter-charges when he told the Senate War Investigations Sub-Committee today that he had established the Aviation Electric Company solely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pensions For War Award Winners
Australian winners of war decorations from the M.M. to the V.C. were now entitled to special war pensions, said Mr. G. Grant at a meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recalled Events Before Civil War: Negress Dead
LYNCHBURG (Virginia), Nov. 23. A.A.P.—One of the nation's oldest citizens. "Aunt Martha" Payne, a negress, has died. Her age was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New War "Danger To Entire Human Race"
NEW YORK, Nov. 23. A.A.P.— The New York "Times," in an editorial on world affairs, warns of "the danger of an irreconcilable conflict that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Pose As Priests In Quest For Airmen "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Two United States soldiers who disguised themselves as priests and lived for six months with primitive Lolo tribesmen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Build Soldier New Home
A public meeting at Cessnock last night appointed a sub-committee to organise functions to raise funds for Mr. James Munachen, a returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soldier
By Siegfried Harris (9), of Gulliver-street Hamilton. Ten points…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Exhume War Dead
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Within the next few days, 190 Australian civilians would begin to exhume 1409 American war dead at Ipswich, said Captain J…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Is Unlikely, Says Monty
DURBAN, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery said to-day that war was unlikely "despite the little bits of trouble in various…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Burrowing Can't Protect Industries In War
WASHINGTON, Tues. (A.A.P.): The Army General Staff reported today that underground construction cannot protect American…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Scare Rumors In United States: Big Buying Of Stores
WASHINGTON, Tues. (O.S.R.): Rumors that America is suddenly rearming are spreading through the country. THEY result from reports , that the army is ordering huge war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War On Christmas Racketeers
THE news that the Prices Branch has launched a special drive against Christmas rackets will be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Says Shortage Of Petrol Would Prevent War
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Mr. C. Taylor Cole, a U.S. oil official from Texas, said that because of the acute shortage of petroleum all over the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Civvy Street Rate Importance Of War II. Battles
The relative importance of World War II. battles in which Australians took part will be determined by an Australian Battles Nomenclature Committee headed by Sir Thomas Blamey…
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