Anzac Day in the Suburbs, District
Many suburbs and district towns held their own Anzac Day commemorations yesterday besides providing contingents for time main Newcastle city ceremonies…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1950
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Over 20,000 See Big Anzac March
Thirty-five years after Australian and New Zealand troops bad landed at Anzac Beach, yesterday's Anzac Day march was one of the biggest and most colourful in Newcastle…
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Thomas Abbott, about 50, of Laman-street. Cook's Hill, formerly of East Kempsey, collapsed and died in Watt-street while taking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →World War 1 Man Yet Only 50
Mr. Gordon Barton, of Lockyer-street, Adamstown, says he may be the youngest World War I. returned soldier in this district. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cold War Eddies Are Felt In Remote Kingdom
SAIGON, Wed. (O.S.R.): The timeless tranquillity of the remote mountain maze where China meets Burma and the Kingdom of Laos, has been disturbed by the first chill eddies of…
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THE hotel bar was filled with ex-servicemen — young and old—and the beer was flowing…
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A dawn service was conducted by Rev. G. K. Wilson at Swansea on Anzac Day. Rev. Wilson also conducted the service at 11 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Complaints Of Petrol Sales On Anzac Day
Petrol had been sold illegally at a city garage and service station on the Pacific Highway, Mr. H. Jeffrey alleged yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.S.L. Protest: Anzac March "Too Arduous"
Wallsend Returned Servicemen's League decided last night to protest to the City sub-branch against the "arduous route" chosen for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.S.L. Sub-Branch Congratulated On Anzac Service
The Anzac service at Sandgate War Memorial Cemetery [?] Sunday had been outstanding and "most impressive," said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Review Of War Pensions Now Completed
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Treasury officials had received the report from a special Cabinet Subcommittee set up to review war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →High Altitude Flying In Cold War "Regular"
NEW YORK, April 27. A.A.P.— The magazine "Newsweek" said yesterday that, although no American official would admit it, high…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tumbarumba Land For Soldier Farms
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said to-day that three farms on "Willingobung" Estate, 10 miles north…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldiers Attend Funeral
Officers, sergeants, and representatives of other ranks of the 2nd Battalion attend the funeral of William Carlin yesterday afternoon…
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More than 300 members and visitors attended the annual Hamilton R.S.L. Anzac dinner last night. Among the visitors were Mr. T. Armstrong, M.L.C., Sgt. E…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tito Sees No Immediate War Danger
BELGRADE, April 28. A.A.P.— Marshal Tito told foreign correspondents in Belgrade to-day that he saw no possibility of a war or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New War Threat Must Be Faced
Let's face it. War in Europe is possible, within two, three, four years. Let's face it again. Should war come soon the Russians could not be held east of the English Channel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Move to End War Homes Lag
CANBERRA, Friday.— Establishment of a Commonwealth construction authority to erect War Service Homes was suggested by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Full-Scale War On Rats Tomorrow
Full-scale war will be declared on rats early to-morrow morning when the rat eradication month planned by Newcastle Council's health department begins…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fight Cold War in Asia, U.s. Told
NEW YORK, April 30. A.A.P.—The United States must extend its "cold war" battlefront from Europe to South-east Asia to avoid a shooting war, the Chief of the European…
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