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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 43
POHANG FRONT, Fri.: Once a thriving port, Pohang is now a war-battered ghost town, according to Roy Macartney, A.A.P.-Reuter correspondent. Macartney had gone through the town which he described as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): President Truman said today that it would not be necessary to keep the United States Seventh Fleet off Formosa afer the Korean war ended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WASHINGTON Aug. 31. A.A.P. —The State Department is planning to counteract Russian propaganda by Secretly distributing 200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CAIRO, Aug. 31. A.A.P.—Three British soldiers, all in their 20's, whose mothers were flown from England and saw them for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.): Major-Generai Orvil Anderson, who advocated a "preventive"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARIS, Sept. 1. A.A.P.—France to-day paid Britain £14,600,000 in settlement of war debts, and in part redemption of the £100…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TOKIO, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Two was correspondents in Korea—Philip Potter (Baltimore Sun) and Jean-Marie Depremonville (French Newsagency)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →PARIS, Sept. 5. A.A.P.—The French shooting season opened with three accidents—cases of mistaken identity, says Reuters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. J. Wagener, a Dutch migrant living at Stockton, was decorated with the Dutch Bronze Cross in Sydney yesterday by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sept. 5.—Russta's satellites' armies conducted manoeuvres this year completely under Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Percy Spender) last night appealed to "all people of good-will" to join in building a new world society based on human principles "and so avoid the awful bloodshed of an atomic war."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What a well-dressed Scot wears when he goes to war is illustrated by this Highlander who arrived at a South Korean airfield with the first contingent of British troops. He carries a sub-machine gun, side arm, knife (in stocking), bed roll, tam o' shanter and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BONN, Thurs. (A.A.P.). — The Allied High Commission last night issued a fresh instruction to the West German…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PARIS, Thurs. (O.S.R.).—Berejka Mokhtar, who joined the French Army over 100 years ago, yesterday celebrated his 120th birthday in Paris. Now blind and almost deaf, Berejka, who lives in Algeria,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKIO, Fri. (O.S.R.): U.S. Army officers claim that the last war's rate of complete recovery of six out of every seven wounded American soldiers will be bettered in the Korean war. Led by a British hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TOKYO, Sept. 7. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Eleven people were killed to-day when a United States Army four-engined Skymaster crashed shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Communist Communist China has no intention of joining the Korean war according to diplomatic reports quoted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA: The Commonwealth Government's belief that 5 per cent. of Australia's manpower and resources should be diverted immediately to war needs, is the basic cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.): Australia is the only large secure base available to the United States which is at all close to the continent of Asia, says C. Hart v Grattan. M. Grattan, well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →International goalkeeper, W. Mahoney, of Wallsend, recently returned from South Africa with the Australia team, leaps above J. Drinkwater, of Cessnock, to clear his goal in the State Soccer Cup Semi-final match at Adamstown on Saturday. Wallsend won,…
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