War Plants May Make Locomotives
MELBOURNE, Sat. -- Government war plants may be used to make parts for rail gauge unification, a Munitions Department spokesman said today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1946
6,874 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 250
Pensioners retire after aiding in war
MANY of the thousands of old-age and invalid pensioners who took jobs during the war and renounced their claims to pensions, have now retired and re-applied for pensions…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stop Press Punishing Jap War Criminals
ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The R.R.L. is demanded "proper and adequate punishment" of all Jap war criminals. The president (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Two Soviet views of the war
An amazing contrast in Russian war films was demonstrated at a special screening on Tuesday night in the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The snake was a strange war weapon
RELEASED THIS "WEEK were details of one of the strangest Allied secret weapons, the Snake. It looked like a 400ft. boa constrictor with a pear-shaped nose. Used in the European war to blast paths through enemy minefields for advancing tanks and personnel, it was a long metal trough loaded with high explosives. A lank pushed it to the desired position, the slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FASHIONS "Civil War" bonnets: designers go to history
ALWAYS on the lookout' for a new way to put together a flower, a ribbon…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →GERMANY They cooked in the helmets of war
In Berlin's streets the wreckage of war still lay thickly -- destroyed guns, wrecked tanks, heaps of twisted…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Get ready for atomic war, says ARP chief
A FUTURE war, launched without warning, might "catch Sydney napping," Chief City Warden…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jap war criminals due to die soon LABUAN
ARMY Minister Forde has come face to face with Japanese war criminal trials in Borneo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →They used planes in America's home-front industrial war
A total strike came to America. Chartered by unions, spotting planes hovered over strike-bound picketed steelworks to detect whether companies were flying in supplies to maintenance men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas masks come into use again in new war on fish: "goggling" yields hauls in harbor
AT last a use has been found for gas masks. Vaucluse' youths, 16-years-old Terence Lane, of Hopetoun-avenue, and 12-years-old Neville Mulroy, of The Crescent, are believed to be the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →7000 Welcome Soldiers Home
Nearly 7000 people gathered in the Domain, yesterday to welcome 1174 Australian servicemen from Borneo and Singapore…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australia Was Toasted With "Anzac Cocktail"
WASHINGTON, Sunday.--"Anzac cocktail," invention of the Australian Minister to Washington (Sir Frederic Eggleston) was drunk at the Australia Day party last night. Recipe is: Two parts gin to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Drinks in Pre-war Ease
In comparison with Sydney, Melbourne is almost back to peacetime drinking conditions. Many hotels are giving service to the public which Sydney has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bernborough' S Brilliant Winning Run Outsiders War Eagle, Craftsman In Places
With a typical smothering run over the last-half mile, Bernborough raced to a comfortable win in the Australia Day Handicap today and maintained his unbeaten record at Randwick. Starting at 6 to 4 on he beat War Eagle (33 to 1) by two and a half lengths with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soldier Took 8-Day Trip "Into Nowhere "
A clue to an eight days "journey to nowhere" by their 23-years- old returned soldier son Raymond Spencer Veitch, who is suffering from amnesia, is sought by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Veitch, of White-street, Manly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Discontented soldier
SIR,--I read with interest your articles last Tuesday on the homesick Americans in Germany, and the need for our…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Armistice in Cricket War
Armistice may be declared in the North Sydney Cricket Club captaincy battle. RUMORS have been insistent at the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Women's Hipline Increased in War
LONDON.--Round the hips and in the feet. British women are bigger than before the war. Today's best-selling hip size is 40. compared…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Delightful Film of War’s End
“AT Six P.M. After The War,” is the first Soviet film to touch on the problems of the post-war period, and is being…
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