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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
565 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 29
NAIROBI, March 27. A.A.P.—Two hundred Africans were massacred with unparalleled savagery by Man Mau terrorist gangs last night. Reuters says it was the beginning of the open…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 29. A.A.P. —A phantom army, striking with bombs and bricks from a secret lair, is terrorising Scottish business men who advertise Queen Elizabeth's Coronation in June. A self-styled "Scottish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TOKIO, Mon. (AAP) : The United Nations commander (General Mark Clark) will send liaison officers to Panmunjon (Korea) within…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY. —An Australian soldier whom an Australian court martial in Tokio found guilty of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Waratah-Mayfield R.S.L. will hold its local Anzac Service on Sunday, April 19…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY.—Memorials to Australian dead are nearing completion at three war cemeteries in Papua…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TOKYO, March 30. A.A.P.-Reuter. — The American authorities in Tokyo have agreed to the early parole of 11…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TOKYO, March 30. A.A.P. Reuter. — Lieut.-Colonel Ed. ward MacNaughton, D.S.O., Commander of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Private Ian Dowling Cupit, found guilty but insane on a murder charge by a military tribunal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE: An Australian soldier fighting in Korea has been told that because his service is "only in Korea" he is not entitled to the privileges of the N.S.W. War Service Land Settlement Act…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine soldiers were injured when a jeep skidded and overturned on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five hundred crosses will be placed in the Field of Remembrance at Civic Park to mark the celebration of the Anzac Day dawn service in Newcastle this year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Acting Minister for the Interior (Sir Philip McBride) hast instructed the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, March 31. A.A.P. — The West had no clear and agreed political aim to meet the threat of Communist aggression, Field Marshal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BELGRADE, Wed. (A.A.P.): The President of Yugoslavia (Marshal Tito) declared yesterday that he had been assured in London that Yugoslavia would not fight a local war alone. Marshal Tito, who…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): The situation to Kenya, with British enforcements joining in and planes standing by to bomb and machinegun the terrorists, was described yesterday as "like a war." The Colonial Secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Commonwealth to-day urged the New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY—Servicemen in Korea and Malaya would be given the right to come under the War Service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The secretary of the District R.S.L. Council, Mr. W. H. White (right) and Mr. F. Evans inspecting the 500 wooden crosses donated by Andrew Cook and Sons for the Anzac Day Field of Remembrance. (2) The recently-constructed Field of remembrance in Civic Parks where the crosses will be placed. Newcastle members preparing for the All Australian Y.M.C.A. tournaments to be held here from April 3 to 10. (3) C. Spitzkowsky, N. Whalen, J: Hepplewhite and J. Higgerson practise a special figure. (4) Frank Boorman, J. Higgerson, John…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Geographically, India is the one great nation which might be able to…
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