Wounded Chinese Enter Hongkong
TAIPEH, May 28. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Chinese Communist soldiers wounded in Korea were daily sneaking across the border…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1951
681 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 35
"Shoestring" Air Force Stops War
WASHINGTON, May 29. A.A.P.—The U.S. Air Force was the only thing that had kept the Russians from going to war. But it was a "Shoestring" air force in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"No Reason" For U.K. War Pension
The British Ministry of Pensions could find no valid reasons why a service pension should be paid to ex-Imperial servicemen in Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →98 p.c. Korea Wounded Recover
TOKIO.—Of wounded and sick soldiers who reach army hospitals in Korea, 98 per cent. live, compared with 92 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Public Tribute To Soldier
Citizens passing the body of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey as it lay in State in Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance yesterday He was given a State funeral…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death For Fifth War Criminal
CANBERRA, Thursday. — The Government has confirmed the death sentence on a fifth Japanese war criminal, Captain Shinohahra…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Expected War Last Year
WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—The outlook in Korea was so gloomy late last year that U.S. military commanders were alerted to the danger of world war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boer War Veterans To Greet General
Twenty Boer War veterans from the Newcastle district will form a guard of honor, for Lieut.-General F. H. Berryman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Red Troops In Korea War
TOKIO, Sat. (A.A.P.-Reuter): Fresh Red Chinese troops were moved up yesterday into positions guarding their supply base area in North Korea. Enemy reinforcements…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Propaganda War To Be Pepped Up
WASHINGTON, June 3. A.A.P. —The Army had under consideration the use of guided missiles and small, remote-controlled planes to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Possibility Of All-Out War On U.S. Scouted
NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.).—No nation would be stupid enough to challenge the U.S. to an all-out war, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Not Built For Neutrality They must be for us or against us, says European correspondent, Matthew Halton. It is a harsh dilemma they pose, and peace or war may hang on whether the West decides to rearm them
WITHIN the next few weeks or months the statesmen of the free Western world…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War Men Entertained
Boer War veterans on Saturday night were entertained by the Newcastle Naval and Military Veterans' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War Veterans
Lieut.-General Berryman greets Boer War veterans who formed a guard of honour for him when he arrived at Newcastle City Hall last night to attend the Lord Mayoral Ball. He is shaking hands with Mr. T. W. Metcalfe, of Mayfield…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Soldiers Ear For Music Meant Death For Red Spy
TOKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—The sharp ear of a soldier "music critic" brought about a spy's downfall during the recent offensive in Korea. A soldier who looked like a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven Nazis Die For War Crimes
DUSSELDORF, June 7. A.A.P. —Seven Nazi war criminals were executed at Landsberg to-day. They were condemned three years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Czech Acquitted Of War Crimes
HAIFA, Sat. (A.A.P.).—The Haifa District Court yesterday acquitted Andre Banek, a Czech and the first non-Jew to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Controls War on in America
NEW YORK, June 8. A.A.P.T The battle between opponents of price and other defence mobilisation controls and Administration officials trying to make them work is likely to reach a climax soon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New War Novel Has Vitality
"The Strange Land," by Ned Calmer, is a study of personalities riven by war. A series of characters from privates to officers and war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All Blacks Give "War Cry"
Members of the All Blacks Rugby Union team practised the traditional war cry, the "haka," at a Newcastle hotel last night. They will play Newcastle at…
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