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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1947

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Soldier Settlement Estates Inspected

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 15 May 1947 · page 10

A Gular message states that Messrs. Kimber and Mostyn members of the Advisory Committee for the Closer Settlement Board, have…

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War Brought The Spotlight On Percheron

Central Western Daily · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 1

THE Percheron breed of heavy draught horse is a native of France. It was first imported into England in 1916. The Great War first brought the merits of the Percheror horse to the notice of the world. This horse being greatly used in the Army, and the way…

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Prepare for War Right of Australia Dr. Evatt's Statement Communists Attacked

National Advocate · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Evatt, says that Australia is entitled to prepare against any…

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Lithgow Abandoned Big War Memorial Project And Gave Donations To R.S.L.

Central Western Daily · Saturday 17 May 1947 · page 1

The proposal to erect a Lithgow Citizens' War Memorial Club, at an estimated cost of £25,000, in honor of the dead of two world was has been abandoned and a decision reached to hand the money already collected over to the local Returned Soldres…

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Next War Against Civilians. New York

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 1

Thirty-three diseases of man, plants and animals possibly useful in bacteriological war, are described with the War Department's…

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Civil War Spreading in India LONDON

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 1

The state of semi civil war in India continues. Throughout the Punjaub there has been widespread looting and…

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War Memorial Scheme Lithgow Not Interested Project Abandoned

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 3

Lithgow ambitions project— the proposed erection of a Lithgow Citizens' War Memorial Club at an estimated cost…

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Germany’s War Secrets Revealed in Book Just Published

Central Western Daily · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.—Many of Germany’s most important war secrets, have been revealed for the first time in a book…

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A Live Soldier Among the Dead Is Worry to Cowra R.s.l

Central Western Daily · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 2

Mr. J. J. Bryant, of Cowra, is causing the Cows sub-branch of the R.S.L. some worry. His photograph is framed in…

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Wallace Paints Picture of War

National Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 3

LOS ANGELES, Monday: Mr. Henry Wallace, former vice-President of the United States, believes that Britain and the United States will go to war…

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Indian Headache Fanatical Religious War Thousands Flee From Lahore

National Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 2

NEW DELHI, Tuesday: Thousands of terror-stricken women and children streamed from the Punjab capital, Lahore yesterday, as the religious war…

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Final Welcome Home at Coolah

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 22 May 1947 · page 19

A final Welcome Home social to all ex-service men and women was held in the Shire Hall on Friday night last, and was…

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War Pension Appeals To be Speeds Up

National Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1947 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday: Another Tribunal to hear appeals on the assessment of war pensions is to bo set up…

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How Churchill Faced the War Crisis LONDON

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 22 May 1947 · page 1

Some idea of the grim determination of Mr. Churchill to prosecute the war to the bitter end in the dark days of 1940-41…

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Civil War Looms Jews and Arabs Clash LONDON

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 22 May 1947 · page 1

There is every indication that bitter civil strife in Palestine is near at hand. The uneasy truce between Arabs…

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Russia's War On Britain Is Unceasing British Labor "Points the Bone" America Also Disturbed London

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 22 May 1947 · page 1

Russia's foreign policy is attacked in a pamphlet entitled "Cards on the Table" issued from the T.U.C. headquarter on the eve of the…

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Must Get Out Ex-German Soldier in Australia

National Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1947 · page 1

CANBE7RRA, Wednesday: A German soldier, who had fought against the Allies during the war, had been allowed, through misrepresentation, to…

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Hearty Welcome Home to Mr. Eric Toynton

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 4

More than 100 people attended a, welcome home to Mr. Eric Toynton, of "Springview," Molong, at the Scouts' Hall last…

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News Items In Brief China’s War

Central Western Daily · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 1

NANKING Thursday. — The Nationalist [?] capital of [?] was isolated yesterday when Company is [?]…

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President and Congress At War WASHINGTON

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 1

Open warfare has commenced between the Truman administration and Congress on the tariff issue. This is reported by Reuters following…

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