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

The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Kashmir Will Take Poll Move to Arrest War New York

National Advocate · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

The Indian and Pakistan delegates at the Catted Nations headquarters are now drawing up plans for a plebiscite in Kashmir which is to define the…

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War Criminals Executed Twenty-one Die

National Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 2

BERLIN, Friday: Britain's official executioner, Albert Pierrepoint, yesterday commenced the hanging in Hamelin Prison of [?] German war…

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Anzac Day on a Sunday Afternoon March Arranged SYDNEY, Sunday

National Advocate · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 2

The State Secretary of the Returned Servicemen's League (Mr. Lewis) to-day announced plans for this year's Anzac Day celebrations…

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Many Soldiers in Ballots

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1948 · page 1

GOULBURN Tuesday. — More than q from ex-servicemen have been received [?] two sub-divisions in the…

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“Cigarette Angel” Visits 362 Sick Returned Soldiers in Year

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1948 · page 1

Three hundred and sixty-two sick returned diggers were visited during the past year by the Returned Soldiers’ “Cigarette Angel,” Mr. Harry Tight. This was disclosed at the 30th annual meeting of the Orange…

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Greek Guerilla War ATHENS

National Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 3

A Government source announced that the police, after receiving reports that guerillas in neighboring mountains were planning to capture Lamia,…

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India War Danger Arabs Move for Peace Settlement CAIRO

National Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 3

Grave concern is felt throughout, the Near East over the Kashmir dispute and its political repercussions. Arab leaders in the midst of the…

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Letters To The Editor Beacon Light As Orange War Memorial

Central Western Daily · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 3

Sir—I have been approached by a number of the citizens to place before the people of Orange, through the medium of your paper,…

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War Planes for Greece U.S. Supply ATHENS, Thursday

National Advocate · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 4

First delivery of an unspecified number of American planes for Greece, from surplus stocks in Germany was announced by Major Gen…

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Beacon As War Memorial Scheme Sponsored by “The Renns”

Central Western Daily · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 1

The [?] in that the citizen of Orange should [?] a war memorial at the top of [?] has…

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Letters To The Editor Beacon Light As War Memorial

Central Western Daily · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

Sir, I heartily agree with what the Rev. John Smart Fisber has said about the proposed erection of a beacon light on the top of…

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No WAr Likely Tito's Views

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday: "There will be no war because the people don't want war," declared Marshal Tito in a speech at belgrade…

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The Rifle "Enlistments" to Be Curtailed

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 6

The first round of a competition shoot for a trophy donated by Mr. L. Johnson was fired from 300 yards on Saturday. Scoring in some…

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Cobbora Shire Starts War on Weeds

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 7

Cobbora Shire Council, like many other local governing bodies, is alarmed at the spread of noxious weeds, especially…

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Jap War Crimes Chief Prosecutor's Address

National Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

TOKIO, Wednesday: If treachery of the Japanese accused in the major Tokio war crimes trial remained unpunished there would be an implied…

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More Than War of Nerves Jerusalem

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 1

Family groups yesterday began to evacuate Jerusalem's danger spots as the Jews and Arabs started a war of nerves following Tuesday's battle…

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Japanese War Criminals Four Sentenced To Death

Central Western Daily · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE Wednesday [?]…

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Berlin’s Future As German Capital Powers’ War Of Nerves (From David Brown, Reuter’s Correspondent)

Central Western Daily · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

BERLIN, Wednesday.—What many residents are already regarding as a “war of nerves” over the continuance of Berlin as the Four Power capital of Germany, has been intensified in the Press and by public utterances…

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Soviet Comment on Pre-War Pacts

National Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

MOSCOW, Thursday: In a second instalment of its reply to the American publication on Nazi-Soviet relations in 1939-41 the Soviet says that…

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Anzac Day March

National Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Although Anzac Day falls on a Sunday this year, RSL officials expect that at least 50,00O men will march through Sydney…

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