Recalled War Days
BUOYS FOR DISPOSALS. These beacon light buoys from Manus Island, being prepared for unloading by AB's T. O'Connor and J. L. Moloney, of Victoria, reached Sydney yesterday on naval LST Labuan…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1949
641 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 33
War Heroine On Newcastle Visit
MRS. NANCY WAKE, whose wartime activities with the resistance movement won her British. American and French…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Portrait of War Lord
THIS PORTRAIT, embroidered on satin, is of Marshal Wu Pei Fu, the most powerful of the old Chinese War Lords. The portrait is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Radio Rebate Urged For War Pensioners
A protest against the exclusion of war pensioners from the 50 per cent. rebate for pensioners on wireless licences will be made by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2771 War Service Holdings Allotted
CANBERRA, Friday.—By July 31 last 2771 ex-servicemen had been allotted holdings under the war service land settlement scheme,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Soldiers Killed In Malaya
SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Two privates of the Suffolk Regiment were killed in a battle with 15 bandits in Selangor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Cross Works In War, Peace
Opening the Red Cross flower show at Singleton, the President of Maitland branch of the Society (Mrs. Dilley) stressed the valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →China War Won, Says Communist "Herald" Service and A.A.P.-Reuter
HONGKONG, Oct. 2.—The "people's liberation war" in China had been "fundamentally won," Mao Tse-tung said yesterday. Mao Tse-tung, who is the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Is "Unlikely" Declares Evatt
CANBERRA: The Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) said in the House of Representatives today that the present state of relations between Russia and Yugoslavia did not seem likely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Sky-Writing" By War Planes
This "sky-writing"—tracery of aircraft vapor trails—records Allied war might during a recent bomber-fighter exercise by the R.A.F. and units of the Dutch, French and Belgian air forces…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Can Have War Or Civilisation, But Not Both"
Under modern condtions mankind could have war or civilisation, but it could not have both, the Bishop of Newcastle (Right…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soviet Plans Envisage No Early War
LONDON, Oct. 5. A.A.P.—Economic planning in the Soviet Union foreshadows at least 15 years of peace, states a booklet entitled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Settlers To Get Heifers
The Hunter District Dairy Officer (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) said today that some dairy heifers had been purchased…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Wounded In Shooting Affray
MELBOURNE: A 15-year-old girl, who was wounded in the back and arm when seven shots were fired at her last night, was still on the danger list at Royal Melbourne Hospital today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Czechs Begin "Class War"
PRAGUE, Oct. 7. A.A.P.—Widespread arrests have been made by police in sudden swoops in Prague and other centres of Czechoslovakia in the past three days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disposal Sales Of War Goods Totalled £135m
MELBOURNE.—Final report of the Commonwealth Disposals Commission, showing a return of more than £135,000,000 from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.N.O. Warned South Korea Against War
SEOUL (Korea), Oct. 7. A.A.P.—President Rhee told the United Press correspondent that he was sure his Government could "take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.N.O. Seeks Formula On Atomic War
NEW YORK, Oct. 7. A.A.P.—British and Canadian delegates to the General Assembly of the United Nations are discussing a proposal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia Went To War Half A Century Ago
"Go back and tell your people that I shall never give them anything. I shall never change my policy. And now let the storm burst!" In these terms, President Paul Kruger replied to leaders of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greengrocers' 'War' At Bondi Junction
SYDNEY: A price cutting war between greengrocers is giving Bondi Junction housewives cheap fruit and…
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