War Pension Payments
Newcastle Postmaster (Mr. D. S. Gilmour advises that increases will be paid on war pensions this week and the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1950
844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 42 of 43
Air Power "Will Prevent War"
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. "A.A.P.—The over-whelming air power in the lands of the free nations would prevent a world war, Lord Tedder said last night…
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BERLIN, Dec. 17. A.A.P.-Reuter. —West Berlin Social Democratic Youth have begun a Christmas propaganda campaign against tin…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—John Douglas Wilson, aged about 42, labourer, of Primrose-street, Mary-borough, is dead and his wife,…
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DARWIN, Tuesday.—The first wounded Australian officer from Korea reached Darwin to-night by Qantas Skymaster from Japan…
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LOS NEGROS, Dec. 19. A.A.P.- Reuter.—A United States submarine had taken two Australian officers from Fremantle to Sourabaya…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →China Has Cause To Avoid War "Herald" Service
LONDON, Dec. 19.—Communist China does not want total war with the United Nations before the end of the century, because it would indefinitely postpone Mao Tse-tung's long term…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Last week 145 men joined the services, the Assistant Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Banfield) said…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P): America's defence lines must be the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, not the continents of Europe or Asia, declared Mr. Herbert Hoover today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MacARTHUR Bans War News Fighting On 38th Parallel
TOKYO, Dec. 20. A.A.P.-Reuter.—General MacArthur to-day imposed a censorship on all news stories, radio broadcasts, magazine articles and photographs on the Korean war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lord Mayor At Soldiers' Party
The Lord Mayor (Ald. Purdue) left, and Mr. H. Winley at the Christmas dinner of the Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Ex-Servicemen's Association yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Following the lead of the Governments of the United States, United Kingdom and France, the Australian…
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SYDNEY.—Three wounded soldiers from Korea left Sydney for their home towns today on stretchers placed along the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Gloom Ousts U.S. Gaiety "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Christmas has been driven right out of American newspapers by the sombre international situation…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Joseph Cecil Marshall, 22, is in a critical condition in Cobar District Hospital with a bullet wound in the…
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SINGAPORE, Wed. ( A. A.P.-Reuter).—British troops wrecked a Chinese cafe last night after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Soldiers Taking Part In Malaya Fighting
SINGAPORE, Wed.: Australian soldiers attached to a British battalion in Johore killed their first Chinese Communist in a swamp battle near Muar late last week…
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TOKYO, Dec. 27. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Senior officers in Tokyo believe the United Nations forces in Korea may, in time, turn the tables on the Chinese Communists by making the war much more of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Snow Halts Chinese War In Tibet
SHILLONG (Assam), Thurs. (A.A.P.).—A spokesman for the North-East Frontier Agency, which is administered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Direct U.s. War Industry
Mr. Charles E. Wilson, formerly head of the General Electric Company, who is to direct America's gigantic industrial…
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