Defence Supply Branch To Meet War Emergency
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Supply (Mr. Beale) announced to-day the formation of a Defence Supply Planning Branch…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1950
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Australia U.S. War Base, Says Moscow
MOSCOW, May 12. A.A.P.—The Moscow journal, "Red Fleet," publishes an article on the "definite role being assigned to Australia in…
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NEW YORK, May 12. A.A.P.—The Director of Civilian Mobilisation (Mr. Paul Larsen) told a conference of United States mayors…
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SINGAPORE, Monday (A.A.P.). — Sydney jockey, Ted Harper, was ambushed by terrorists in…
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DJAKARTA, May 14. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Australian pilot, John Doderick, who was shot by an Indonesian soldier in Djakarta on…
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WASHINGTON, Sun. (A.A.P.). — America was losing the cold war against Russia, John Foster Dulles said in a radio interview today. Mr. Dulles, Republican foreign policy spokesman. said…
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NEW YORK, May 14.—The Russians now accept the idea of a shooting war as an alternative to the "cold war" as a means of gaining world supremacy, according to a number of…
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LONDON, May 14. A.A.P.—The Foreign Ministers of Britain France and the United States last night branded Russia as "the sole militaristic and aggressive…
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DJAKARTA, May 15. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Australian pilot, John Doderick, suffered a slight relapse in the Indonesian hospital…
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TOKYO, May 15. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Four divisions of the United States Eighth Army in Japan to-day began a three-month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great-grandmother Is War Veteran
"Don't say I'm too old," pleaded Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, of Wallsend, when she applied at 64 to join the Women's Land Army. Her plea was transmitted to…
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WASHINGTON, May 15. A.A.P.—Mr. John Foster Dulles, Republican foreign policy spokesman, declared yesterday that the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War If Russian Is Not Stopped—Galleghan
The enemy today was Russia and all Russia stood for, wherever it might if something were not done to stop the imperialistic march of Russia, and done soon, we would have to fight to stop the march of this totalitarian country, Bridadier F. C. ("Black Jack") Galleghan, D.S.O., O.B.E., E.D., said at a civic…
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LONDON. — Ex-serviceman Prank Turner, aged 56, of Ranikhet Camp. Tilehurst, Berkshire, was said at Reading…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Delay in issuing campaign medals by the Service Departments was primarily because of the decision to inscribe…
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LONDON.—A wounded British soldier who asked to be left behind in the Malayan jungle so that three…
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Mr. Charlie James, 79-year-old member of the Gallipoli Legion of Anzacs, who is willing to donate one of his eyes to a blind ex-servicemen, made the offer after having lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japan Renounces War "Forever"
Are the Japanese people sincere in their protestations of love for their conquerors? Are we to believe that Japan has been changed from a nation of warriors to a nation of pacifists in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plans Adopted For Lake War Memorial Home
Amended plans for the War Memorial Convalescent Home at Lake Macquarie were adopted by the appeal committee yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shooting War Now On, Says U.S.A. Leader
WASHINGTON, Fri. (A.A.P.): Mr. W. Stuart Symington called on business leaders today for help in mobilising the United States against a warfare which, he said, had already progressed from spying and…
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