Truman's Warning War Fear Would Check Recovery
WASHINGTON, August 22. A.A.P.—President Truman to-day warned that European economic recovery would lag if the "haunting fear of military aggression because widespread."…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1949
641 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 33
"Cashing In" On War Memorial
Ex-service organisations had contributed a lot to the Cultural Centre scheme by "letting them cash in on the title 'War Memorial,'"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Radio War Against Yugoslavia Tito Denounced By Ghost Voice
LONDON, August 23. A.A.P.—The Cominform, which last year condemned the Tito regime as anti-Communist, has opened a radio war against the Yugoslav…
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HAMBURG, August 23. A.A.P. —Field-Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, 61. one of Germany's top-ranking war leaders, failed…
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PARIS, August 23.—Twenty-eight soldiers were found dead in a desert of ashes left by the forest fires near Bordeaux. They lay in a circle they had…
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Crowds gave a great welcome to the first of H.M.S. Amethyst men who arrived in Southampton. Stoker Mechanic R. Fletcher, who lost a leg during the shelling of the ship, is assisted ashore…
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HAMBURG, August 25. A.A.P.—An order enforced by ex-Field Marshal von Manstein, that captured Soviet political commissars…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Victim Tells Story Of Torture
WASHINGTON, August 25. A.A.P.—A one-legged former U.S. Air Force man who was wounded in New Guinea in 1943, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →P.M.G. War On Unlicensed Radio Owners
Newcastle radio inspector (Mr. G. D. Menzies) issued a warning today that the P.M.G. Department was launching an all-out campaign against holders of unlicensed wireless sets…
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BELGRADE, August 25.—Marshall Tito drew pledges of loyalty to-day from three crack units of his fighting men, as the Balkans cold war between Yugoslavia and the Cominform showed signs of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An Army spokesman said to-day that all soldiers sent to coal areas during the strike had been credited with bonus…
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ADELAIDE.—The Army Minister (Mr. Chambers) said to-day he had received no official complaints concerning…
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ALL 17 members of the Yugoslavian Soccer team, which will arrive in Newcastle from Brisbane this morning to play three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Policy "Skirts Road To War"
NEW YORK, August 29. A.A.P. —Senator John Foster Dulles declared last night that the reliance of the United States on material…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Homesick War Brides Charter Skymaster "Herald" Service
LONDON, Aug. 29.—Babies slept in special cots hanging from the roof of a Skymaster which landed at Northolt last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yugoslavs Defiant In Red War Of Nerves
BELGRADE, Thurs. (A.A.P.) : Yugoslavs are rallying to the support of Marshal Tito following reports of Russian troop concentrations on the border…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russian Troop Moves Nerve War On Tito Sharper
BELGRADE, August 31. A.A.P.—Five Russian tank divisions, supported by infantry and planes, are reported to be massed on Yugoslavia's northern frontiers, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maintenance of War Graves
The maintenance contract entered into by Waratah-Mayfield R.S.L. sub-branch for the care of graves of servicemen in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Verbal War On Tito
The latest Soviet note to Yugoslavia confirms earlier impressions that Moscow's principal aim is to drive a wedge between Marshal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Hero" Says He Will "Declare War"
ROME. Fri. (A.A.P.)—King Salvatne Biuliand, Sicily ban dit, has threatened open war on the Government unless it…
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