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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

280 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 14

Wounded Man Found

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 December 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Fri.--Detectives investigating the wounding of a man who was found unconscious at Ryde yesterday morning and is…

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War Highlights At Boulevard To-night

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 2

The free film show exhibited by C Company of 41st Battalion at the Grafton Boulevard to-night will include some of the…

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War Office Denial

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).--The War Office to-day denied Israeli charges that five Egyptian tanks destroyed by Jewish forces in…

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Faulty Reports Suggested War

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 3

NWE YORK, Friday (A.A.P.),--A faulty, intelligence report "almost had the United States in a war" in the spring of 1948, according to New York Press reports, based on a report of the Advisory Committee to the Commission which is preparing a…

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Heating Starts On War Lords' Appeals

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Fri. (A.A.P.), --The hearing by the United States Supreme Court of the appeals by the seven Japanese…

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Thousands Of War Souvenirs Handed To Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 2

Army Headquarters announces that the publicity which has been given to .the danger of the public retaining ammunition…

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Most People Fear Third World War

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 December 1948 · page 4

COPENHAGEN (By Airmail).--Most people in the world fear the outbreak of a third world war within the next two or three years, according to Mr. Paul Westphall, Danish journalist and author, who has just returned hereafter a 25,000 miles flight…

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Accidentally Wounded By Blank Cartridge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 December 1948 · page 3

John Marshall, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Marshall, of South Grafton, was accidentally wounded in the foot by a…

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War Lords to Die

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 December 1948 · page 1

TOKIO, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--General MacArthur is expected to Order the execution of General Tojo and six other major Japanese war lords as soon as he receives…

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Americans Alarmed About War

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).-- "The American people are much more alarmed about the war than we are," declared the "Red…

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Peace Or War In China?

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).--President Chiang Kai Shek has placed full power to choose between peace and war in China in Premier Sun Fo's new Cabinet,…

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War Will Come, Says Smuts

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).--War will come again," declared Field-Marshal Smuts in an interview at Pretoria with a New…

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Home Building Highest Since War

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.--Building statistics released by the Acting Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. S. R. Carver) to-day show that…

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Pre-war Brightness at Coff's Harbour

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Wednesday.-- Christmas in Coff's Harbour promises to reach a pre war level in brightness. On present indications, record shopping figures will be established. Business houses reported a…

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Canada Marshals War Resources

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 7

Mr. Claxton, Canadian Minister for Defence, disclosed recently that Canada was making a thorough inventory…

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Dance To Provide For War Veterans

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 7

CORAMBA.-- Coramba Auxiliary of the R.S.L. conducted a card and dance evening for the provision of Christmas cheer for…

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Japanese War Lords Hanged In Sugamo Prison

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 1

TOKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P.).-- Six weeks after being condemned to death by the International War Crimes Tribunal for Japanese war guilt, General Hideki Tojo, 64, Japan's wartime Prime Minister, and six other Japanese war lords were hanged in Sugamo…

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Reds Label Chiang As War Criminal

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 December 1948 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. (A.A.P.).--The Chinese Communist Radio to-day broadcast a list of 45 Chinese Government leaders and military men, headed by Chiang Kai Shek, who were "war criminals well-known for their heinous, crimes whom all Chinese…

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Dislike for Term "War"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 December 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tues.--The Dutch are objecting to the use of the term "war" to describe the present Indonesian struggle. A PROTEST against the…

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U.s. Ready for Sub, War

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 December 1948 · page 6

Admiral Louis Denfeld, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, said that undersea warfare was getting priority attention in U.S…

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