Duce's Nephew Wounded
ROME, Wed (A.A.P.).—Guiseppe Bondanini (29), a nephew by marriage of Benito Mussolini, was…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1954
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 31
New Conclusions About A-War "Herald" Service
LONDON, August 3.—The use of atomic weapons is inevitable in future warfare, according to a group of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation experts…
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MOSCOW, Wed. (A.A.P.).—War will not be decided by atom-bombers, but by the soldier in the field, a Russian military expert said yesterday. Atom-bomos, though extremely dangerous for…
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GOSFORD, Wednesday.—When When Gosford's last Boer War veteran is buried in Point Clare Cemetery, to-morrow…
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Although the editor of "The Newcastle Chronicle" (Mr. Bogis) won a libel action with substantial damages in October. 1868, against the publishers of the rival paper, "The Pilot," Messrs. George and Sydney…
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WASHINGTON, August 6. A.A.P.—The Australian Ambassador (Sir Percy Spender) yesterday formally accepted…
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TRIESTE, August 6. A.A.P.—Two British Army officers were killed by lightning as they sheltered from a storm…
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A special meeting of the Hamilton R.S.L. subbranch and the Hamilton R.S.L. Club will be held…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—The wartime jungle training centre at Canungra (Queensland) would be reopened and greatly expanded, the Minister for the…
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A combined meeting of the Hamilton R.S.L. Management Committee and the R.S.L. Club House as soon as possible. It was agreed that the club meet 25 per cent, of the cost and the…
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SYDNEY. — The Soldier Settlement Scheme was the biggest peacetime undertaking in Australia. even…
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PARIS, Wed. (A.A.P.) — All traffic on a main road leading to Limoges was diverted last night when it was discovered that a bridge over which hundreds of heavy trucks had rumbed every day…
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WASHINGTON, Wed (AAP): President Eisenhower today dismissed the idea of preventive war against Communist nations as "ridiculous, unthinkable and impossible". He said there would be…
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WASHINGTON, August 12. A.A.P.—President Eisenhower dismissed as ridiculous, completely unthinkable and impossible the idea of a "preventive…
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SAIGON, Aug. 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.—There was peace throughout Indo-China yesterday for the first time in…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—State congress of the R.S.L. decided to-day to ask sub-branches for suggestions to improve the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.A.F.'s War Achievements
When World War II began, the Australian Air Board acted at once, dispatching No. 10 Squadron, R.A.A.F. (Sunderlands) to the United Kingdom…
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John Albert George Cundy, 40, of Union-street, Junction, was taken to Royal Newcastle Hospital on Saturday with a…
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LONDON: A National Service man was amazed the day after he turned 20 to find he had inherited a…
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SYDNEY: "The past year was marked by greater stability in costs and prices than we have experienced since the war," said the Chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd. (Mr. E. R. Knox) at the annual meeting of shareholders…
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