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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Land for Soldiers

National Advocate · Thursday 11 November 1948 · page 6

FORBES, Wednesday: Applications for eight farms for ex-servicemen on the Boyd Estate, close with the Crown Lands Agent at Forbes on December…

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War Criminals to Know Fate Today

National Advocate · Friday 12 November 1948 · page 4

TOKIO, Thursday: The International War Crimes Tribunal in Tokio will deliver its final judgment and pronounce sentences on General…

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"War Not Inevitable"

National Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1948 · page 2

MONTREAL, Friday: Canada's most certain and practical approach to security lies in an alliance of the North Atlantic nations, the Acting Prime…

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Tojo and Six Other War Criminals to Die Emperor's Trial Advocated by Chief Judge

National Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1948 · page 1

TOKIO, Friday: Sentence of death has been passed on ex-Premier Tojo of Japan, and six other Japanese wartime leaders…

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Soldiers Raid Food Shops

National Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1948 · page 2

TIENTSIN, Friday: Hungry soldiers dumped into North China after the collapse of Manchuria went on a wild "grab everything" spree here…

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Masterpiece of Camouflage German War Plants

Central Western Daily · Monday 15 November 1948 · page 3

Inspections of war plants in Germany shows that the Versailles Treaty was forgotten as soon as World War I. was over, for near Hamburg a high explosives underground factory indicated that…

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An Airmail Newsletter from John Howse (Member for Calare, in the United Kingdom with the Empire Parliamentary Delegation.) War Plants Show Germany Preparing for Second Battle in 1921

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 7

Inspection of war plant in Germany shows that the Versailles Treaty was forgotten as soon as World War 1 was over, for near Hamburg a high explosives underground. factory illustrated that Germany set out for the second World war in 1921…

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China War CONFLICTiNG CLAIMS

National Advocate · Thursday 18 November 1948 · page 2

NANKING, Wednesday: A major victory on the vital Suchow from where powerful Communist forces have for days been seeking a break…

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Air War Likely to Australia Challenge To Qantas (From Roy Macartney, AAP-Reuter’s Correspondent)

Central Western Daily · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 5

SINGAPORE (by Air Mail).—An air “war” menacing the Qantas BOAC monopoly between Australia and the United Kingdom is looming…

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Returned Soldiers Welcome State President

Central Western Daily · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 2

Members of the Orange sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League yesterday welcomed Mr. Ken Bolton,…

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Undersea War

Central Western Daily · Saturday 20 November 1948 · page 7

WASHINGTON, Friday. — Undersea warfare is getting Priority attention in the United States Navy planning…

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"Heading for War"

National Advocate · Saturday 20 November 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Friday: Stalin's policy is heading for war just as clearly as Hitler's did. There is no difference between them, declared Lord,…

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Howse Tells of War Fears In U.K.

Central Western Daily · Saturday 20 November 1948 · page 1

“In everyone’s thoughts and speech in Great Britain today there is a real fear of war in the very near future,” writes John Howse, member for Calare, who is now overseas with the Empire…

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Americans Stop Talking of War

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 1

Nearly everybody in America has suddenly stopped talking war. Even the newspapers, for all their scare headlines, have piped down on…

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Politburo Divided on War Proposal

Central Western Daily · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday. — Unusually well-informed Western sources in Moscow believe that the Communist Party’s Politburo is divided on the vital question of war or peace with the West, says…

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Successes Claimed by Anti-reds War Tempo Slackening

Central Western Daily · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 3

NANKING, Sunday.—The tempo of the China war has slowed down, at least temporarily, according to Reuter correspondents. Nationalists claim further successes in…

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Pravda Hits At War Mongers

National Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 2

MOSCOW, Monday: All Soviet newspapers yesterday—Artillery Day—published articles by leading artillery generate crediting the Soviet artillery…

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Warning on War London

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 24 November 1948 · page 1

Britain had to be careful she did not allow herself to be defeated without a single shot being fired, by devoting to civil…

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"Britain Has Real Fear of War"

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 24 November 1948 · page 8

In everyone's thoughts and speech in Great Britain today there is real fear of war in the very near future…

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China War New Claims by Reds

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Chinese Communists claim in a, broadcast picked up in San Francisco that they have captured Poaaing, 90 miles…

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