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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
559 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 28
LONDON,—Wed. (O.S.R.): A new Anglo-American war base is steadily growing in Libya, opposite the "soft under-belly of Europe." Evacuation of Palestine is steadily strengthening this base…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Managing Director of A.N.A. (Mr. I. N. Holyman) said to-day his company did not intend to enter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Wed (A.A.P.): President Truman addressed a solemn Congress today when he called on the U.S. to place itself on a semi-war footing to combat the march of Communism in Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH, Thursday.—A war widow who has bought the same number in every State lottery drawn for five years won…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SHANGHAI, March 21. — China's civil war spread to the environs of Shanghai and Nanking yesterday when small detachments…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HONGKONG, Mar. 22.—"I do not think a third world war is in the least probable," said the British Minister of State for Colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ANYBODY who has eaten in a cafe — which means most of Newcastle's population—will welcome the evidence presented last night to the Greater Newcastle Health Committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—For the second time in succession, War Eagle, owned by Mr. J. Bendrodt, won the blood champion title at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, March 24. A.A.P.—The Soviet Ambassador to London (Mr. Zarubin) said at a diplomatic reception that there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P. and O.S.R.): Two grim statements of what the world can expect in another world war were made here today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thurs.: The average Briton this week was asking himself: "Twelve months from now will I be filling in football coupons or sandbags?" He seemed to have convinced…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MOREE, Thursday.—Clarence Walter Rushby, 40, blacksmith, is dead and his wife, Mona Rushby, 38, is in a serious condition as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, March 25. A.A.P.—American scientists have developed a method of forming a radio-active cloud deadlier than the first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 25.—The belief that America would like to launch a "preventive war," but will not dare to, is held by every Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vincent John Edwards, 21, soldier, was ordered to enter a bond of £10, at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday, to be of good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, March 26.—Mrs. Leah Manning, Labour M.P., who wept in the House of Commons "because you men sit coldly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four people were wounded, two with one bullet, in holiday shooting accidents. Patrick O'Brien, 20, of Kenrick-street, Junction, and Ronald Pitts,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): There would be no World War III, declared Dr. Klement Gottwald, Communist Premier of Czechoslovakia. "The forces of peace, led by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, March 29.—Considerable quantities of American war material are reaching Russia, according to disclosures…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Greater Newcastle Council granted Waratah-Mayfield sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League permission to hold an Anzac Day…
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