U.s. Jitters on War with Russia
TOOWOOMBA, Monday: Reference to the fear in America of the outbreak of war against Russia was made tonight by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1949
369 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 19
New Unknown Soldier?
NEW YORK, The Unknown Soldier of the United Nations may be impressively enshrined in the permanent capital being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War on Noisy Cyclists at Casino
CASINO, Thursday.—Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., made a, strong attack on noisy motor cyclists and said it was a practice "which will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big War Role For Guided Missiles
LONDON, Thursday (AAP). — Claiming that the R.A.F's. bomber striking force is obsolete, the aeronautical writer of "The Times" today declares that in view of the very narrow speed margin between the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Shipping Profits Three Times Pre-war
LONDON, Thursday: The Minister for Transport, Mr Barnes, revealed that Britain's shipping receipts for 1948 should exceed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.k. Exports 160 Per Cent of Pre-war
LONDON: The provisional figures for exports from the United Kingdom during the month of January show that, not only has there been a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eminent First War Historian Dies
CANBERRA, Sunday. — The well known soldier, and editor of the history of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18, Col…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carnival Plans For War Veteran's Home
To date £7000 has been raised by the North Coast and Tablelands District ex-Servicemen's Rest and Convalescent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Land to Be Resumed For Soldier Settlement
CANBERRA, Sunday: The inability of some States to obtain sufficient suitable land for soldier settlement made it imperative that action be taken to resume good country held by big landowners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier "Houdini" Closely Watched
LONDON: Four "Houdini" escapes from cells have brought a British soldier special guards to watch his every movement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Tweed Resident's Impressions of Post-War Switzerland
Switzerland's world reputation in catering for the tourist is being well maintained, said Mr Werner Hammond, of Murwillumbah, Who returned to the Tweed on Monday night after visiting his native city of zurich…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ex-soldier Keen to Join Jap. Wife
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Frank Loyal Weaver, former B.C.O.F. soldier, aims to collect 1,060,060 signatures on a petition to the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aust. War Baby May Come Back
HONOLULU, Thursday (AAP). Geoffrey Joiner the five-year-old Australian war baby, may be sent back to Australia because of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Reds Would Strike to Avert War
LONDON, Thursday, (AAP).—A frank admission that he would use the strike weapon to prevent war against the Soviet Union was made today by Mr. Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the British Communist Party. He had been asked to define his,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Happy La[?]ing For War-Striken Children
From the Red Cross comes a report which can only be described as harrowing--of child war victims; war-mutilated children from European countries, who are learning under the guidance of the Red Cross how to walk again; how to see with their fingers. Some of them are only nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Kills Russian Soldier
BRUNSWICK (Germany), Thursday: A German frontier policeman on Monday shot and killed a Russian soldier who had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2000 Soldiers in Mental Homes
CANBERRA, Friday. — There were nearly 2000 ex-servicemen in mental institutions throughout Australia, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russia's Cold War Allies
NEW YORK, Sunday: Russia's four best allies in the cold war were hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos said the Economic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Pensioner Knocked Down by Utility Truck
Robert Jamieson, 43, war pensioner, of Zillmere Road, Hendra, Brisbane, suffered a possible fracture of the right thigh and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scientists As War Memorial
The world's strangest war memorial is now "intalled" on the Pacific island of Koror, in the Palau archipelago. It had…
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