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  • SOLDIERS ON WAY TO KOREAN WAR Initial Force Leaves Sydney By Air

    SYDNEY, Aug 31: The movement of Australian troops from Australia to Japan on their way to Korea has begun with the departure from the Mascot airport of the first plane-load ... [ILLUSTRATED] [Article] (803 words)
  • ECHO OF CAMP UPRISING; GEORGE CROSS AWARDS

    CANBERRA, Aug. 31: The George Cross has been awarded posthumously to two New South Wales privates who died facing a fanatical uprising of Japanese prisoners-of-war at the Cowra p.o.w. camp ... [Article] (207 words)
  • ARREST IN THE N.S.W. SWAMP MURDER CASE

    Detectives investigating the murder of Grace and Kathleen Holmes, of Toukley (N.S.W.), arrested a fisherman, William Birtle (25), yesterday after having questioned him for 8½ hours. The girls' bodies had been found by searchers in a swamp at the largest of the Tuggerah lakes. The picturegram shows the accused being escorted yesterday into the Newcastle Police Court, where ... [ILLUSTRATED] [Article] (72 words)
  • COMMUNIST THRUST IN THE NORTH

    TOKYO, Aug. 31: Outnumbered South Koreans have been forced back three miles near Uihung in the centre of the northern defence line, and into the salient the North Koreans yesterday rushed ... [Article] (579 words)
  • AUSTRALIAN POUND No Conclusions By Cabinet

    CANBERRA, Aug. 31: Federal Ministers have discussed appreciation of the Australian pound as one of several major ... [Article] (135 words)
  • FIRST OF 2,500

    LONDON, Aug. 3: The first six of 2,500 United Kingdom recruits sought by the Australian Army ... [Article] (54 words)
  • FISHERMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER OF SISTERS

    SYDNEY. Aug. 31: Heavily-manacled and surrounded by a strong police guard, William Birtle (25), a fisherman of Toukley. was charged in the Newcastle Police Court this morning with the murder ... [Article] (280 words)
  • AMANA FINDING TO BE GIVEN TODAY Maintenance Work At Airport Described

    The City Coroner (Mr. R. P. Rodriguez) will give his reserved finding this morning on the inquest concerning the deaths of 29 persons as a result of the crash of the airliner Amana near ... [Article] (666 words)
  • HANGED IN EGYPT Three British Soldiers Die

    CAIRO, Aug. 31: Three British soldiers, all in their twenties, whose mothers were specially flown from England to ... [Article] (93 words)
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