Used Opium To Finance War
TOKYO, Nov. 9. A.A.P.—Reuter.—The International Tribunal to-day named the Mitsubishi and Mitsui companies, Japan's great prewar family combines for having helped finance an aggressive war…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1948
559 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 28
Expert Warns On Atom War
PERTH, Tuesday.—Atomic war fare was a very serious thing and he hoped it would never coma about, said the Chairman of the…
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SYDNEY.—The liner Ranchi. which arrived at Sydney today from London, brought 332 British migrants, nominated by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pope Prepares To Meet War Emergency
MONTREAL, Nov. 9. A.A.P.—A Canadian Roman Catholic priest, Rev. Edward Sheridan, home from a visit to Europe, revealed that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Science War On Lightning
NEW YORK, Fri. (O.S.R).—Forest fires started by lightning can be prevented—by eliminating lightning, according to…
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Sentences passed by the Tribunal to-day, were— Death by Hanging General Tojo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truman Urged To Take Speedy Action In China On China War
WASHINGTON, Fri. (A.A.P.): A Republican Senator today urged President Truman to call an immediate session of Congress to consider aid to China…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War In China
Although the Nationalist forces in China appear to have gained a victory substantial enough to save Nanking, at least…
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SYDNEY.—A man with a gunshot wound in the thigh told police he did not desire action against the man who…
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Baptist evangelist, Rev. L. M. Thompson, said at Islington Park last night that another war within 25 years was…
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CANBERRA.—It was not proposed to make any alteration in the payments of gratuities, the Prime Minister (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Safety Zones For Atom War Proposed "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.— The international Red Cross is proposing war rules to protect civilians in an atomic war. The rules would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Widow Presents Flowers
When the Governor-General of New Zealand, Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., and Lady Freyberg, were given a civic welcome by the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) yesterday, Mrs. F. Smith (left), a war widow and a New Zealander, presented Lady Freyberg…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newsmen Survey Chances Of War "Herald" Service
LONDON, Nov. 19.—Will there he a third world war? Does a "cold" war presage a shooting war? The London "Daily Mail" put these two questions to its…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government has completed plans to evacuate Australian nationals from the path of the…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 21. A.A.P.—Well-informed Western sources in Moscow believe the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party is divided on the vital question of war with the West, says the Berlin…
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Top: Part of the contingent of the Northern Rivers Lancers which took part in the commemoration of the Battle of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Brides Must Enter U.s. by Dec. 28
SYDNEY: Australian wives of American ex-servicemen have until Dec. 28 and fiancees until Dec. 31 to enter the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Rumour Brought Swift Denial
CANBERRA, Tuesday. —Postponement of the Royal tour had given rise in Sydney to rumours that war was imminent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canada Sees to War Needs
OTTAWA, Nov. 23. A.A.P.—Canada was undertaking an intensive inventory to determine just what her fighting forces would…
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