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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 43
LONDON, Sat. (A.A.P.).—The first list of Americans taken prisoner Korea has been received by the P.O.W. agency of the Red Cross in Geneva. A list of 50 names, which included details of rank and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—A sman force of police and a handful of soldiers supervised the loading of supplies for the Korean war on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Sunday: Although the Korean war is little more than a month old, military leaders in Washington have learnt some grim lessons from it which have already begun to shape policies for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TOKYO, Aug. 21. A.A.P.-Reuter.— The United States Army Chief of Staff (General J. Lawton Collins) and the Chief of Naval…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A naval patrol is guarding the loading of the oversea ships Changsha and Yunnan, which are taking on war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HONGKONG, Tues. ( A.A.P.-Reuter): Chouen Lai. Chinese Communist Foreign Minister, has announced that the question of Korea "can and must be settled peacefully."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WELLINGTON, N.Z., August 22. A.A.P.- Reuter.—Mr. Menzies said to-day that in the next two or three years the world will have to decide whether to go once more into insanity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There might be a parallel between events leading up to the last war and those of to-day, Captain Hatfield, bf the 2nd Battalion,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →VIENNA, Wed. (O.S.R.): For once, the "it-couldn't-happen-here" attitude, so noticeable hers at the time when one after another of Austria's neighbors was being swallowed up into the "People's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LOS NEGROS, August 23. A A.P.-Reuter.—A former Japanese Army officer was acquitted of a charge of murder by the War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thurs.: The comings and goings of the nation's political leaders, watched with an interest and excitement recalling 1939, produced nothing but a question mark for the British public…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—Police to-day found a crocodile shooter wandering through dense jungle, about 70 miles north-west of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKYO, August 24. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Randolph Churchill, received an ugly wound in the right leg when he accompanied American patrols across the Naktong River into the enemy lines last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inhabitants of Taegu, the United States Army forward base in Korea, scan posters on a street corner. The posters are part of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: The liner Changsha, the first of the ships with war supplies for Korea, is expected to leave Sydney late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OSLO, Fri. (O.S.R.): Members of a religious sect in south-west Norway are convinced that war is coming again to Norway and are making preparations accordingly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ever since the outbreak in Korea there has been agitation in favour of using the atom bomb at once, to overawe the Russians. Those in favour, especially in the United States, argue that its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A record will be kept of all enlistments in the area covered by Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the past fortnight, the Women's Auxiliary of the Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Soldiers' sub-branch has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TOKYO, August 25. A.A.P.-Reuter.—As the Korean war entered its third month to-day, it become more evident that the invaders had lost the strength for a knock-out blow…
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