Woman Dead With Throat Cut; Baby Wounded
SYDNEY, Monday. — A mother was found dead with her throat cut and her fourmonth-old baby daughter…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1953
206 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 11
"Less Danger of War Now"
MURWILLUMBAH, Monday. —"The British people have more influence to exercise on world affairs today than ever…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Forty-five returned soldiers will be settled in the West this year, and 70 or 80 will take up farms in the East and Central Divisions of N.S.W. This was revealed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welcome Home for P.O.W.s "A Great Job"... NORTHCOTT
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Six hundred relatives and friends, braving cold, wind and rain at Mascot Airport today, welcomed home eight Australian prisoners-of-war released from North Korean camps after the armistice…
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KYOGLE, Thursday.—A Kyogle district man was this afternoon charged with maliciously wounding two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soviet Concessions to Germany East Freed From War Reparations
MOSCOW, Sunday (AAP).—The Soviet today launched a series of top-level concessions designed to buttress the position of the East German Government. A communique issued in Moscow told East Germans they would…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The likelihood of a third world war in the immediate future had greatly…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man shot by a watchman at Fairfield early today had not been seriously wounded, police…
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FANMUNJOM, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).—The Communists today returned 123 United Nations prisoners of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Increases in Civil and War Pensions
CANBERRA, Wednesday. —Civil pensioners in Australia will receive an extra 2/6 a week as a result of increased rates under the 1953-54 budget…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War-Torn Railway Rebuilt
The "Blowpipe Express" on its first journey over the reconstructed East Coast railway of Malaya, which was destroyed in a British withdrawal before the Japanese in 1941 and later hacked up by the Japs for the Siam "Death Railway."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soccer Goonellabah Stars Retain Anzac Cup
Goonellabah Stars retained the Anzac Cup by defeating Church of Christ Crusaders 4-0 at Oakes Oval on Saturday. The match started at a…
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MUNSAN, Monday (AAP).—The Allies have accused the Communists of intimidating North Korean and Chinese war prisoners who refused to go home in the recent exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →R.s.l. Urges Rise in Allocation for Soldier Settlement
MULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday.—Mullumbimby subbranch of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. will make representations to Mr. Stephens, M.L.A. urging him to press for a greater allocation of funds for the purpose of…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Nobody would find anywhere in the world anything which produced so much incentive and encouragement as the 1953/54 budget, the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said tonight…
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Full military honours were [?] [?]l. S. B. Godwin, of Lismore, when he was buried yesterday morning in the Lismore cemetery. He died in Lismore on Tuesday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hopes U.N. Will Settle War In Indo-China
DARWIN, Sunday.—France is hoping' that the war in Indo-China would be settled by the U.N., the French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.k. Labour Rejects Criticism of U.s. Cold War Policy
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—The British Labour Conference yesterday rejected by a big majority left wing party resolutions criticising American policy on the cold war and East-West trade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Service Settlement Grant Sought
GRAFTON.—The sub-branch of the R.S.L. will support a move by the Federal executive of the league for the allocation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome Home for Army Nurse Gallagher Seven Years In Japan
A welcome home is being given tonight to Miss Ruby Gallagher at Edenville. Miss Gallagher recently returned home to Edenville after seven years of army nursing in Japan…
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