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844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 43
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.): The United Nations should avoid, by every means in their power, becoming inextricably entangled in a war with China, Mr. Winston Churchill said in the House of Commons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Nov. 30. A.A.P.—Mr. Attlee summoned the Service Chiefs of Staff to Cabinet discussions on the Korean crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA: Australian troops in Korea, to 6 p.m. on Wednesday have reported no casualties during their movements this week and there is nothing since to justify any unusual concern about their safety. This message from General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—At Redfern Court to-day John Eric Cunningham, 19, soldier, of Ingleburn Camp, was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sapper Kenneth Gardiner, of Mackie-avenue, New Lambton, has the distinction of being named the first "Soldier of the Month" in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Red Cross branch members found button-selling in the Newcastle district easier yesterday than on Red Cross Day last year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): Britain believed the Korean campaign should have ended at the 38th Parallel (north-south border), the War Minister (Mr. Emanuel Shinwell) said last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DARWIN, Sunday.—A migrant died this afternoon a few minutes after being stung by a large Portuguese man-o'-war at Mendil Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKIO, Tues. (A.A.P.-Reuter): General MacArthur's headquarters reports that China has committed one million troops to the Korean campaign. Dispositions are given as: 260,000 in the front line; 550,000 behind them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.). —Grim news from Korea caused stock Valuations to drop £892 million on New York Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Three hundred soldier settlers on woolgrowing blocks have been asked to apply for a share in the 100 Bundemar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.A.P.): An ex-serviceman who found that Army surgeons had left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Two women rushed to their wounded brothers when the second batch of Australian wounded from Korea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DARWIN, Tuesday—Five strecher cases and five walking wounded from Korea and two soldiers injured in Japan, arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A tiny ophan of the Korean War huddles in a sack in the care of the little girl also an orphane. They were about to enter the newly established United Nation orphanage in Seoul capital of South Korea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. A.A.P.—President Truman and Mr. Attlee were in agreement that the Korean war was only a single battle in what promised to be a very long campaign against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEN the Americans intervened in the Korean civil war, and their forces were being hard pressed by the North Koreans, their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Peace for how long? That far-seeing Winston Churchill gives us two years' breathing space—barring accident, passion, folly or madness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swabs had been left in a patient's throat during an operation, occording to evidence today at the inquest on an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members of the Russian delegation to United Nations at Flushing Meadows, New York, confer before a General Assembly meeting on the Korean War. Jacob Malik, head of the delegation, is at centre (headphones), and Andrei Vyshinsky, Soviet…
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