New Destroyer H.m.a.s. Anzac
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Australian, destroyer in building at Williamstown dockyard, Victoria, would be named Anzac, the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1948
559 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 28
Belgium Urged to Prepare for War
BRUSSELS, Feb. 26. A.A.P.—The commission on the reorganisation of Belgium's Armed Forces urged the Government to prepare…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transport Ex-Servicemen's Anzac Arrangements
Newcastle District Transport and Tramway (Gordon-ave. Depot) Ex-servicemen's Association will hold its Anzac Day…
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GOSFORD, Friday.—A 12-year-old boy was found outside the grounds of Gosford Primary School with a bullet wound in the left side…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anti-war Theme For 1948 May Day March
Anti-war slogans and support for the Federal Government's referendum on price control would provide the principal theme for this year's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Palestine Soldiers As Migrants
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Federal Executive of the R.S.L. to-day decided to ask the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Claims Returned Men Cannot Get Gratuities
Some ex-servicemen who had not applied for their war gratuities were receiving them and others, who urgently needed the money,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thrice Wounded Man Leaves Sydney Hospital
SYDNEY, Sunday.—John Donald McRae to-day left Sydney Hospital, against medical advice. He was admitted to the hospital…
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CAIRO, Feb. 29. A.A.P.—Civil war is reported to have broken out in Yemen between the "loyalist forces" and those of the new Imam…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Warning On European War Risk
LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): If Britain failed to promote European recovery, there would be another phase of totalitarianism leading to a disastrous war, British War Minister Shinwell warned yesterday. Britain is recalling her…
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WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.A.P.): "The iron curtain must not come to the rim of the Atlantic by aggression or default," Senator Vandenberg warned the Senate today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier's Body On Railway Line
The body of Pte. Thomas Jones 20, of Greta Military Camp, was found on the railway line near the Greta railway station early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Speers Point Plans Anzac Day March
At the annual meeting of Speers Point-Warner's Bay sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League, it was decided to seek the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tojo Accused Of War Responsibility
TOKYO, March 2.—Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime Prime Minister, was a bedfellow of the German crowd of lawbreakers and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop War Aim Of U.S. Aid
WASHINGTON, March 2. A.A.P.—The European recovery programme strove to stop World War three before it began, Senator Vandenberg told the Senate yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Timber Leases "Matter of Course" Prior to War
SYDNEY: Granting of timber leases in New Guinea before the war was almost a "matter of course," said James Bannister McAdam, Acting Secretary of the Department of Forests in New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Returned Soldier Fails In Claim
A returned serviceman, who said he and his wife and child had been paying £2/2/ a week for a room and a small balcony since July…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Services
This year's Anzac march and commemoration service will be held on the afternoon of Sunday, April 25…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Day Sport "Blatant"
Waratah-Mayfield sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League will protest to the Country Rugby League against sporting fixtures…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Talk In U.S.A.: Angry With Soviet Don Iddon's New York Diary
NEW YORK, Thurs.: All the week in the United States it has been question time—but no one seems able to supply the answers. Newspapers are lurid with huge maps over which hangs…
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