Girl Shot In Church By Soldier
BOURBON (Indiana), Dec. 31. A.A.P.—A young soldier, who had been spurned by a 16-year-old girl, shot her to…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1952
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 31
U.S. War Contracts For Australia
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The President of an American steel company arrived in Sydney to-day to investigate prospects for…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (O.S.R.). — "There will be no world war in 1952," says the distinguished…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—P. R. Crump, Alabama's last Confederate veteran of the 1861-64 Civil War, has died at…
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—The danger of war would not abate till the United States was far better armed. The United States Air…
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BONN, Thurs. (O.S.R. and Reuter): A struggle is developing between ex-servicemen's organisations for the allegiance of West Germany's millions of war veterans. Upon its outcome de…
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WASHINGTON. Thurs. (A.A.P.): The United States Navy has put into service an attack bomber capable…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Bombardier D. W. Greig, of Christchurch, a New Zealand soldier, who received 35…
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WO.II Edward J. Dadd, who was awarded the M.B.E. in the New Year's Honours List, is a Regular Army member of of the 15th Northern Rivers Lancers at Shortland Camp. He received the award…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.). — Two army recruits were accused at a Shrewsbury court-martial yesterday of…
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United States radiological warfare experts are investigating the war potentialities of atomic dust as a weapon to…
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LONDON, Jan. 6. A.A.P.—Political criticism had caused the Government to drop its plan to appoint a supreme…
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A pretence that Victoria has seceded from the rest of the Commonwealth and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jap. Industry Gets Big Boost From Korea War
TOKIO: Japan's postwar industry is receiving its biggest "shot in the arm" supplying goods and services to the United Nations Korean war effort. Now, after 18 months,…
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. A.A.P.—The world "still walks in the shadow of another world war," President Truman told Congress to-day…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday. (A.A.P.)—The U.S. has formally demanded that Russia account for…
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MANILA, Tues. (A.A.P.)—Soldiers have been sent to Lubang Island, of Mindoro, to search for…
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AUCKLAND, Jan. 17. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Russia did not contemplate a "hot war" because she knew she did not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Bid To Salvage German War Wrecks
NEW YORK, Thurs. (O.S.R.)—From the wreck-strewn seabottom off America's coast, salvage crews will soon start trying to rescue ships which the Germans sank to stop them reaching the Russians…
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More British people were killed by cancer in the second world war period than by the war itself, says "The Book of Cancer Relief," published by the National Society for Cancer Relief, London…
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