All-out War in China, Says General
YENAN, Sunday: General ChuTeh. Commander in Chief of Communist armies in China and Manchuria, declared that an all-out war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1947
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 47
Wallsend Soldiers Want Canteen Fund Amended
The adjourned annual meeting of Wallsend R.S.L. decided to ask the State Executive to recommend amended legislation to allow gifts to…
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LONDON, Feb. 23. A.A.P.— The Army announced the sentences on nine soldiers who tried to, fight their way off the transport Eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Ex-soldiers' Desperate Drive For Homes "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—More than 10,000 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish religious leaders were asked to make pulpit appeals to-day for 100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clerical Hitch Held Up War Declaration
TOKYO, Feb. 24. A.A.P.—Japan's failure to declare war before launching her attack on Pearl Harbur was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lonely Wife German Harbored German War Prisoner
LONDON, Monday: Mother of four children, Mrs. Elizabeth Amy Paris (33), of Bordon (Hampshire), felt so lonely when her naval husband left England that she formed an attachment with a German war prisoner…
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MELBOURNE: Early payment of war gratuities will be made to ex-servicemen in financial distress, because of illness affecting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Civil War Threatening In India: Troops Quell Riots
NEW DELHI, Tuesday.—Moslem riots in the Punjab have reached such a peak of violence that the Government has issued a statement describing the position as "exceedingly serious."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Excellent Prospects For Maitland's First Post-War Show Tomorrow
Prospects for Maitland's first post-war Show, which opens tomorrow for four days and nights, are excellent. All available sideshow space has been taken up and many showmen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hexham Soldier in Casualty List
SYDNEY, Monday. — Private J. Enwright, of Hexham, of the A.A.M.C., died of injuries accidentally received, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greek Guerilla War Intensified
LONDON, February 26. A.A.P.—Official statements and Press dispatches report sharply intensified guerilla fighting in Macedonia,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Need Christian Spirit" To Avoid War
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A warning that another great war was looming unless we can face the situation of starvation, strife, bitterness and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bowlers to Aid War Memorial Appeal
Another "bob-in day" for the Trebor Edmunds Testimonial in aid ol the Lake Macquarie War Memorial Appeal will be held in conjunction with the pennant…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wild Riot In Belgian Capital By Former War Prisoners
BRUSSELS, Wednesday.—Fifty thousand former war prisoners and dependants of war dead rioted in the city yesterday. They had gathered to demonstrate…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Want Sanitary Service for Soldiers' Point
Soldiers' Point Progress Association decided to ask Port Stephens Shire Council to declare Soldiers' Point-Salamander Bay district a scavenging…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inquest on Soldier Killed in Smash
About 5.40 p.m. on February 1 Allan Francis Horton, 25, soldier, single, attached to Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, was driving a military truck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suburban and District Anzac Day Ceremony at Toronto
Toronto sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League decided to hold an Anzac Day celebration on April 25. The ceremony will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Destroy Japanese War Memorial
HONGKONG, Feb. 27. A.A.P. —The British authorities destroyed a Japanese war memorial on top of Mt. Cameron…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Buy Nine Estates For Ex-Soldiers
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A total of 911, ex-servicemen would have been settled on the land in New South Wales when the State Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Claims Refugees Got Homes Before Soldiers
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Treasurer of the Australian Legion of Ex-servicemen and Women (Mr. F. E. Peffer), who, until recently, was…
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