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

The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Anzac Day

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 9

That this Western Districts Conference deplores the drastic change in policy and principal of the RSL in…

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Boy Wounded by Pistol Shot

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY This Afternoon.--Sebastian Torrisi (7), of Fairfield, was seriously wounded when accidentally shot at his…

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War Service Homes Record Total

National Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday: A record number of over 16,000 War Service homes had been constructed at a cost exceeding £28 million in the curren…

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Pessimistic on Korean War Eisenhower Sees No End to Deadlock

National Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 1

ABILENE, KANSAS, Friday: General Dwight Eisenhower, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, had geared his personal drive for the Republican presidential nomination to the assertion that the top…

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War Against Guerilla Forces

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 2

KUALA LUMPUR. Malaya, Monday: British High Commissioner in Malaya. Sir Gerald Templer, said yesterday his forces were "inflicting…

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R.S.L. Chief Favors Conscription Drift in Enlistments SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 1

Failure of the volunteer system of recruiting left the Government one choice [?]ly — total conscription — RSL State president, W. Yeo, said today…

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Gift Ticket Wins Big Prize War Veterans' Art Union

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A ticket given him by his wife as a birthday present, won Mr. Roy Platt, of Earlwood, two homes and a…

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War Memorial Hospital News

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 12 June 1952 · page 20

Those discharged from the Dunedoo Hospital during the week were: Mr. Vic Stennett, Master Ron Medley, and Mrs…

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Soldier Act Ends Soon

Central Western Daily · Friday 13 June 1952 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday —Soldier preference for World War II ex-service men will end in August this…

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World News in Brief Korean War Flares Up

Central Western Daily · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 3

SEOUL (Korea), Friday.— Korea’S ENTIRE BATTLE front rumbled yesterday as Communist attacks set…

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War Chief Confident

Central Western Daily · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 3

PUSAN, Sunday (AAP). — Field-Marshal Lord Alexander said today that if the…

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Release for War Criminal

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

TOKYO, Monday. -- Kiichiro Hiranuma, 85-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister, sentenced in 1948 to life…

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Scientist Ridicules Germ War

Central Western Daily · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Sir Macfarlane Burnet, of Melbourne, a world authority on virus and Infections diseases has…

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"Profitless War"

National Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 4

The chief United Nations trace negotiator told the Communists today that they were keeping a "bloody and profitless war" going by refusing to…

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Aged War Criminal Released

National Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

TOKIO, Monday: Kichiro Hiranuma, 85 year old former Japanese Prime Minister sentenced in 1948 to life imprisonment' for war crimes, has…

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Farmers Wage "Rain War" Wheatmen v Orchardist

National Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday: Rival farmers at Seattle have been confusing mother nature by shooting counter-acting chemicals into the air…

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“Reds planning germ war”

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 8

Rear Admiral Ellis Zacharias, who headed the U.S. Naval…

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Soldier Killed in Experiment

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.--A soldier was killed and 13 others injured, one seriously, when an Army bomb exploded in the…

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War Memorial Hospital News

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 20

New admittances to the Dunedoo War Memorial Hospital during the past week included: Mrs. D. A. Leonard,…

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Soldier Killed by Bomb Explosion

National Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 8

LONDON, Wednesday: A soldier was killed and 13 others injured, one seriously when an army bomb exploded in the Queens Household Cavalry…

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