Land-Air War School At Williamtown
The R.A.A.F. is establishing a land-air warfare school at Williamtown. A tank-landing ship (L.S.T. 3017)…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1948
559 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 28
Tiny Republic Seeks £2m. War Damages
ROME, Dec. 9. A.A.P.—The Government of San Marino, the world's smallest Republic, has ordered its Charge D'Affaires in…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Gunmen wounded a young man who was drinking with a friend in a lane in Melbourne last night…
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Ex-servicemen and women must be united if they were to have a say in the destiny of Australia, the President of Newcastle branch of…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—A new centre would be established at North Sydney Princess Julianna Sanatorium to house European war…
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 13. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Forty-five persons were reported killed at the week-end as Malaya's guerilla war again blazed…
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BATAVIA, Dec. 14. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The possibility of war in Indonesia as a result of the breakdown in the negotiations between the Dutch and the Republicans on the political…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Under an agreement reached between the union and the bank in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day about 80…
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ROME, Wed. (A.A.P.): During the German occupation of Rome nearly every cardinal's room at the Vatican was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the wake of chind's civil war
SHABBY REFUGEE HUTS, made from bits of cast-off materials and straw, line a street in Tsingtao, on the Shantung peninsula in China. Occupants of the makeshift homes were driven from areas where Chinese Nationalists and Communists are fighting: American civilians have evacuated Tsingtao, where the U.S. Navy maintains its western Pacific headquarters. A CHINESE BABY huddles in the crude shelter in which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Christmas Stocks of Food Beast Since Before War
SYDNEY: Food supplies available to housewives this Christmas are the best since prewar, a survey revealed today. For the first time since the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jap War Leaders' Appeals Begin
WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.): The U.S. Supreme Court today began hearings of the appeals by seven Japanese…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Investigation on the practicability of engraving of campaign stars and medals being undertaken by civil…
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NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Faulty intelligence reports nearly had U.S. in a war early last spring, says the World Telegram in a front-page story from Washington. The mistake was caught in time…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Evatt Claims U.N.O. "Could And Would" Stop Third World War
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.) : U.N.O. "could and would stop a third world war," the President of the United Nations General Assembly (Dr. Evatt) said yesterday. This, he added, was because U.N.O. was backed by the people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Dream Over
LONDON. — Arthur Shaw. Grimsby's unforgotten soldier, died in the dream house which his old comrades built for him…
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. A.A.P.—The United States Supreme Court began to-day to hear appeals by seven Japanese against…
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TOKYO, Dec. 17. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Stratman Armistead, 32, former American Army private, was hanged to-day at the Eighth Army…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Soldier Hanged
TOKIO, Sat. (A.AP.): A former American army private, Stratman Armistead (32), who was convicted of running amok…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"No War" Says Mrs. Street
SYDNEY.—"There will be no war," said Mrs. Jessie Street on arrival at Mascot today by Qantas Courier from Japan…
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