Show Ex-Soldier Art
About 70 canvases and 30 pieces of sculpture, the work of returned soldiers doing the Department of Reconstruction's art training scheme,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1948
559 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 28
South Africa's Role in Event of War
JOHANNESBURG, July 21. A.A.P.—The South African Premier (Dr. Malan) stated: "If war breaks out South Africa will side…
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ATHENS, Fri. (A.A.P.) — A spokesman for the Greek General Staff reports that guerrillas in the mountains near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rehear Claim Of Soldiers With "Bad" Discharge
SYDNEY, Friday.—Any soldier who received a dishonourable discharge would be able to have his case reheard, the Minister for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Atom War Fear
NEW YORK, Monday (OSS): A call for 3500 civilian defence volunteers to train in such subjects…
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Mrs. Jeffries, mother of the only Newcastle-Coalfields man to win the Victoria Cross, yesterday presented the bronze medallion and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"America Winning Korea Cold War"
WASHINGTON, July 27. A.A.P.—The United States was winning the "cold war" in Korea, the Army Information Chief in Kdrea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two British Soldiers Killed In Austria
VIENNA, July 27. A.A.P.—Two British soldiers died when a British Army lorry struck a Soviet zonal frontier barrier pole on the…
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At a special meeting in them City Hall the first sub-branch of the Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Soldiers'…
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NEW YORK, August 1. A.A.P.—The Japanese war crimes trials had been, an expensive failure and no sentences imposed would alter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arabs Call For War To Resume
LONDON, August 1. A.A.P.—The Arab Higher Committee has proclaimed a resumption of the holy war to restore independence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threat of Civil War in America
NEW YORK, Sun. (O.S.R.): Renewal of the American Civil War if President Truman's negro civil rights programme passes Congress was virtually threatened by the Governor of South…
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Four soldiers were injured on Saturday when a military lorry ran off the New England Highway near Rutherford. They were—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Rumours Cause Market Panic
SHANGHAI, August 2. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Wild Wild rumours of the out-break of war in Europe threw the Shanghai financial markets into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Communists' Civil War Plan "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
NEW YORK, August 6.—American Communist party leaders were ordered to prepare for civil war in the United States in September, 1939, if America entered the war as Britain's ally…
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ATHENS Aug. 9. A.A.P.—Two United Nations observers attached to the Balkans Inquiry Commission —British Major A. W. Fielding and…
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KARACHI, Aug. 11. A.A.P.— The Moslem League newspaper, "Dawn," said the Prime Minister of India (Pandit Nehru) was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—One of three soldiers imprisoned for taking part in an alleged mutiny at Grovely detention camp, Brisbane,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American War Supplies Reach Britain
LONDON, Aug. 13. A.A.P.—United States Army and Air Force mobile equipment, including heavy lorries, jeeps and bomb carriers,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blind Soldier Visits Lady Montgomery
BELFAST, Aug. 13. A.A.P.—A former bombardier, Jack Armstrong, of Adelaide, who was blinded in the battle of El Alamein,…
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