Under-Arctic War Route Suggested
NEW YORK, Dec. 7. A.A.P.—Submarines travelling under the Arctic Ocean could carry American troops within striking distance…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1950
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Questions To Russia On War Prisoners
NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.)—Russia had not yet accounted for 369,382 prisoners taken during the war, the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fears Of War Shown In Many Capitals
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.): The fear of war is reflected in cables today from different parts of the world. BRITAIN: The president of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vyshinsky Talks Of Korea As "Crux Of World War"
NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): "American intervention in Korea is the crux of a third world war and it must be halted to avert It," Russian Foreign Minister (M. Andrei Vyshinsky) told the United Nations' Political Committee today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Enlist The People Against Inflation
Against Dr. Evatt's charge that the Government has not fulfilled its anti-inflation promises, Mr. Menzies was able to point to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Ban On War Goods For Red Nations
WASHINGTON, Fri. (A.A.P.): The Commerce Department has banned American ships and planes from carrying to any part of the world, strategic material destined for Soviet bloc countries and Red…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.N. "Main Hope Against Third War"
CANBERRA, Sunday.—The United Nations, despite setbacks in Korea, was emerging successfully as the main hope of the peoples of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Menzies' Plan for War Insurance
CANBERRA, Monday.—Speedy preparation for defence and the strongest cooperation between the British Commonwealth and the United States were the best insurance against war, Mr. Menzies said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War "Commodity Scramble" To End "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—One of the most important results of the conferences between President Truman and Mr. Attlee is a decision to end the "commodity scramble" that for months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War News Now To Be Censored
TOKYO, Dec. 12. A.A.P.-Reuter. —A new voluntary Press censorship to meet "a new era" in Korea, resulting from Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →China Claims War Was Forced On Her
NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.): Indian delegate Sir Benegal Rau told the United Nations' Political Committee today that Communist China had assured him it wanted no war with the United Nations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Destroyer Anzac For First Trials
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Progressive trials of the new battle class destroyer H.M.A.S. Anzac would begin on December 20 in Port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One-Day War With A-Bombs
HAYWARD (California), Wed. (A.A.P.): Dr. Warren, atomic energy expert, said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britons Enlist in Australian Forces
LONDON, Dec. 13. A.A.P.— Nearly 1000 British migrants had enlisted into the Australian defence services during 1950, the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Comforts Fund For Third War"
The Lord Mayor's Overseas Comforts Fund for Australians in Malaya and Korea, was the beginning of the comforts fund for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Technology Building Finest Since War
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The ground floor and foundations of the new University of Technology, covering an acre and a half, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"China Wants To End War", Commons Told
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.): "We know pretty well from all our information that China wants to stop this fighting in Korea," Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin told the Commons last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jungle Girl Smiles At Welcome Home
THE HAGUE, Dec. 15. A.A.P.—The "Jungle Girl," Berha Hertogh, smiled for the first time since her arrival in Holland when she reached home to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Pension Pay Arrangements
Increases in war pensions would be paid in Newcastle on two days this week, the Postmaster (Mr. D S. Gilmour) said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Christmas Eve, And War On The Veldt
Christmas Eve of 1900! How quiet everything seemed that afternoon on the veldt! The narrow valley stretched away below us, backed on the far side by the looming Middleburgs; while the swift-flowing Oliphant's River wound…
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