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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
641 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 33
FLIGHT FROM SHANGHAI: Pedicars loaded with refugees—and all the belongings they can carry—flood the streets of Shanghai as Chinese flee the advanced Communist armies moving on China's largest city.—Radiogram…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BERLIN, May 1. A.A.P.—The "barge war" in Berlin has ended. Russians had "invaded" the locks on the Spree canal in the British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. John Rodgers. of the Australian-Russian Society said at the City Hall last night that the Soviet Union had never waged an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Sunday.—Since the war the Commonwealth Government has sold or leased to private enterprise 65 war production plants built…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, May 2.—A biting attack on Britons at Hongkong for their lack of interest in the welfare of 77 Britons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LEURA, Monday.—The foundation stone of the "bell of memories"—a monument to be erected for the fallen of both wars—was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, May 2. A.A.P.—An American soldier was under close arrest in Stuttgart yesterday on charges of having shot dead a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROME, Thurs. (A.A.P.). — Princess Margaret yesterday visited a British cemetery at Sorrento in which lie 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merewether sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League will approaches candidates for Federal Parliament, asking whether they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Allied airlift and the successful defiance of Russian attempts to starve out Berlin have given Berliners the belief that they are now the West's fully-fledged Allies against the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.): Mr. Will Clayton, former Under-Secretary of State, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that Russia was winning the cold war…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →VIENNA, May 4. A.A.P.—An American soldier, recently released from the observation ward of an Army hospital, went to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1—"War, sir?" snorted the old colonel. "Gad! You youngsters don"t know what war is! Why, I, sir, was at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ADELAIDE, Friday.—A cattle expert will soon conduct the biggest experiment of its kind attempted to control the buffalo fly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May 8. A.A.P.—The War Office at the last minute stopped 150 young soldiers from sailing, for the Middle East and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HONGKONG, May 9.—The southward drive of the Communist armies continues, with the spearhead to-day officially admitted to be nearing the border of Fukien…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Russia did not want war with America now, Mr. Chifley told the Federal A.L.P. Executive to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AS from this morning the 11-month Berlin blockade has been lifted and ordinary men and women of all countries will grasp at the crumb of hope which this great event offers to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Waratah-Mayfield sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League wants war widows and ex-service pensioners to be granted rate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The U.S. today ordered a half in further removals of Japanese plants as war reparations. Major-General Frank…
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