War on Taxi Racketeers Sydney, Friday Night
Slate authorities intend cleaning up Sydney's taxi racket. Before the war Sydney's taxis were regarded an the cheapest and most efficient in the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1946
593 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 18 of 30
Palestine Trouble British Soldiers Lynched JERUSALEM
Swift action has been taken by the British to meet a serious situation which developed on Sunday night, when two British soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gilgandra's Welcome Home
The biggest day ever held in Gilgawdra was the welcome home to servicemen and women last Monday when the entire town and district turned out to do honor to those men and women who had served their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Biddon Grand Welcome Home to District Servicemen
The Biddon ha[?] on Friday evening last, was [?]ot big enough be hold the crowd that came along to welcome back and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World’s Greatest Rice Farm Wakool In Peace As In War
As the Farm Mechanisation Scheme, which I had the honour of introducing is playing in peace important a part in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Emperor Hirohito "A Figure-Head and Fraud" Not to Be Tried As War Criminal Washington
A decision was made, on high political levels, not to try Emperor Hirchito as a war criminal, declared Mr. Joseph Keenan, Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Editor’s Lone Fight Against War Censorship Never Let Up in Spite of Weird Reasoning and Reprisals
So you think Australian censors during the war were pretty tough? Maybe they were, but journalists in other parts of t he world had a much worse time of it. Consider Robert Mair Smyllie, editor of the Irish Times,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The World's Greatest Rice Farm Wakool in Peace As in War
As the Farm Mechanisation Scheme, which I had the honour of introducing, is playing in peace as important a part in the economic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Morris Hughes Great War-time Prime Minister
In the whole wide realm of biography it is doubtful whether one could fird a more fascinating story than that of the life of William Morris Hughes, P.C., K.C., M.P. For nearly half-a-century he sat in Parliament in this country, first in New South Wales and then in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German War Criminals Student Priest Beaten To Death Master Spy "King Kong" for Trial LONDON
A student Priest, Claud Hartrek, was beaten to death for the "crime" of carrying a rosary in his pocket, said a witness at the Dachau War Crimes Court, giving evidence against Joseph Hauser, one of 52 Dachau guards…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Settling Returned Soldiers
A warning note was sounded by Mr. Jack Beale, M.L.A., in a recent statement on land settlement of returned soldiers, when he averred that the scheme was proving a dismal failure simply because the State and Federal Government, were trying to exercise dual control…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legacy Cares for Country War Orphans
There are hundreds of war orphans and their mothers living in the country who are being cared for by Legacy. These children are the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mogriguy Welcome Home
There was a very large attendance of relatives and friends at the recent welcome, home dance and presentation, given by the Mogriguy citizens to local…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collie Welcome Home (To The Editor)
Sir,—In your last issue of Grigandra Weekly, dated 20th June was the report of Collie Welcome…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maryvale. Welcome Home. Service Personnel Entertained
The welcome home which was tendered recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Clark, of "Towri", to nine returned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Welcome Home Preparations Attractive Buffet Menu
Flowing a public meeting at the Council Chambers on Tuesday night, at which plans were laid for the welcoming home of Dubbo returned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narromine Welcome Home Over 400 Invitations
Arrangements are proceeding satisfactorily for the grand welcome homo to service personnel to take place on July 6. Over 400 invitations have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Long Elong Welcome Home To Returned Personnel
A heartwarming Welcome Home was tendered by Elong residents, on June 12, to servicemen and women who had enlisted from the district. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Welcome Home at Dubbo Gets Into Its Stride Yeoman Spade Work by Women's Auxiliary Men's Organising Committees First Function in About Six Weeks' Time
A third public meeting, called at the Council Chambers on Tuesday night, for the purpose of arranging a welcome home to Dubbo returned men attracted an attendance of 18 citizens…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Japanese War Agent Now War Crimes Interpreter Author of "Singapore Assignment" SINGAPORE
Under the heading "Former Jap Agent Free in Singapore," the Malaya Tribune published a story of Johnny Fujii, former news editor of the Japanese-owned Singapore Herald, who is now working with Australian War Crimes…
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