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

The wars & local soldiers, 1950

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Baby Prince Watches the Soldiers

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 1

As troops on their way to the Horse Guards Parade for the recent Trooping the Colour Ceremony marched past Clarence House, a young spectator was H.R.H. Prince Charles…

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Murder of P.o.w.'s War Crime Evidence

National Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 1

LOS NEGROS, Friday: A prisoner of war who looked the youngest among to Australians massacred by the Japanese on Ambon Island in 1942 had…

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U.s. Call-up Enlistment Period Extended

National Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Friday: Conscription into the army during September of 100,000 men was yesterday anounced by the Defence Department…

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Korean War Communists Increase Pressure

National Advocate · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 2

TOKIO, Sunday: Front line reports from Korea tonight say that Communist pressure is increasing against the hard pressed American…

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Land for Ex-soldiers Minister Denies Press Statement SYDNEY

National Advocate · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 1

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw) today condemned a leading article on closer settlement in a country daily newspaper as grossly…

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Enlistments for Korea

Central Western Daily · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 1

Although no figures are yet available, a steady stream of applicants have called at the Orange Drill…

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Civil War Feared in Belgium

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—-The Belgian Socialist leader, Max Buset, said last night, “If something is not done it will be civil war tomorrow.” Bugset headed a group of…

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Civil War Menace Violence in Belgium

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Monday: The Belgian Socialist leader, Max Buset, said last night: "If something is not done it will be civil war tomorrow." Buset…

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Land for Soldier Settlement

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 7

A bollot for six soldier settler blocks created by the splitting up of "Myall View" and "Hillylands" estates, near Gilgandra,…

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Men Seek to Enlist Korean Force

National Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Another 92 men applied at Victoria Barracks to-day for enlistment in the Australian Expeditionary Force for Korea…

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Returned Soldier Applies for House

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 6

Before Mr. K. M. Dash S.M., at the last sittings of the Kandos Court John Stanislaus Maher, of Angus avenue Kandos applied for…

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EDITORIAL Korea is Our War Too

Central Western Daily · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 2

The Commonwealth Government’s decision to send troops to Korea “within a few weeks” will…

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Enlistments for Korea. States Given Quota CANBERRA

National Advocate · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 2

The Minister for the Anny (Mr. Francis) announced in Brisbane to-night that 1000 men would be enlisted immediately in Australia for…

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Lone Pine At Orange Came From Anzac Tree RSL Service Tomorrow

Central Western Daily · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 6

The Diggers of Orange, imbued with the spirit of perpetrating the memory of fallen comrades—particularly those who fell at Lone Pine, Gallipoli—obtained a pine tree, propagated from a seed of the famous…

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War Office Appeals for Recruits

Central Western Daily · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 4

LONDON, Friday. — Recruiting for a new short service regular Army engagement followed a by the War Office…

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War Medals Didn't Help

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 7 August 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- A World War I. veteran who claimed he had been decorated three times by the King, appeared in Central Court…

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Force Will Lead To World War

Central Western Daily · Monday 7 August 1950 · page 9

SYDNEY, Sunday.—“The United Nations will lead the world to war, not peace, if it lessens its grappling with fundamental economic and political problems by sanctioning the use of force,” the Rev. Alan Walker…

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Korean War United Nations Forces on Eve of Fierce Battle Planes Destroyed

National Advocate · Monday 7 August 1950 · page 2

TOKIO, Sunday: A frontline correspondent in Korea today suggested that the United Nations forces are on the even of the…

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War Crime Cases Japs Sentenced

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 2

LOS NEGROS. Monday: Of six former Japanese marines charged with the murder of about 50 Australian prisoners of war on Ambon Island…

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Wire Netting As War Reparations Unlikely

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 7

Importation of German and Japanese wire netting, as war reparations, to relieve the acute shortage in Australia is not likely. This is indicated in the…

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