Latest War News Calm Before the Storm
BATAVIA.—With the Indonesian "Nationalist movement plumping for a republic with complete independence, Batavia at present is still quiet, but…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
398 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 15 of 20
Here and There Prisoners of War Arrive Home
There was great excitement on Friday when Sgt. G. L. Irwin and Dvr. Gordon Young, who have been prisoners of war in Malaya, for some…
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Sergeant Blain, who is 51, will enter the House of Representatives this Week for the first time since his election in 1943. He has been in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wounded Arrive From V. S. Hospital Shop Hit Japanese
Ambulances and 'buses line up three abreast at a harbour in the Western Pacific to receive wounded from the U.S.S. Comfort, Navy hospital ship, which was attacked and heavily damaged by a Japanese suicide plane that crashed on the mercy…
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"The problem of the prisoner or war. I should add, is one that concerns a lot of Scow folk very It is one with which, in fact, i have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War-united South Africans
"I doubt if anyone who has been overseas with us—who has trekked with us from pretoria to the north of ltaiy, who has argued with us…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Patriotic and War Fund Committee Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War' Fund Committee was held on Tuesday night, there was a fair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Barbarity Braidwood Man Sees Prisoner of War Camps
In a letter to the editor Cpl. George McGrath says he is at present in Kuching, being amongst the vanguard ol troops to liberate the prisoners of…
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LONDON.—The Australian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Evatt, emphatically claimed for active belligerents like Australia the right of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German War Criminals 1000 on Fourteenth List LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.)
Mare than 1,000 persons are named in the 14th list of German war criminals inals as persons against whom the war Crimes Commission has found…
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LONDON, Monday.—Twenty-four people were killed and 50 injured when an express from Perth to London was derailed between Boymoor and…
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BRISBANE.—British prisoners on war who arrived by air yesterday reveal that 517 British prisoners of was were drowned in Rabaul harbour in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members’ Halfpence For Unions’ War Memorial Britain’s T.U.C. Plans New £350,000 Building and Educational Scheme
Britain’s Trade Unions have been pledged by their delegated at this year’s Trades Union Congress to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welcome Home at Charley's Forest
The Charley's Forest Hall was the scene of a very large gathering on Saturday night last, when the citizens of the surrounding district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welcome Home Braidwood Honours Its Returned Heroes
There Was no doubt about the warmth of Braidwood's welcome on Tuesday night to its returned men and prisoners of war. The first of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Presbyterian Church Welcome-Home Social to Discharged Service Personnel
On Wednesday night, in the Presbyterian School Hall, a very large number of people gathered to take opportunity of extending a welcome…
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The leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party (Mr. R. G. Menzies) has demanded a reduction in war expenditure. He raid to-day that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News Foreign Ministers' Council
LONDON.—Prior to departing for Paris the French Foreign Minister, M. Bidault, said the fact tha no final communique summarising the…
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LONDON.—Hamburg Radio announces that Rudolph Hess is now in Germany and has been handed an Indictment naming him as a war criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News Troop-laden Bomber Crashes
PARIS.—All the 26 occupants of a four-englned Stirling bomber bringing troops home from the Middle East were killed when the aircraft crashed…
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