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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

300 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 15

Huge Deathroll In Atomic War

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 November 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs. (AAP).-- According to Lord Trenchard, one of the founders of the Royal Air Force, 10…

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Cost To Germany Of Hitler's War

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 November 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs. (AAP):-- Hitter's war cost Germany an estimated, total of £42,500. million sterling, according to the…

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War-Prize Ship On Way To Italy

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 November 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--A war prize ship which has been lying in Newcastle Harbour for 18 months, known as the Remo and later re-christened the Reynella, passed through Sydney Heads at 1.27 this afternoon on her way to Melbourne and Singapore and…

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May Be Pearl Harbour Of Next War

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Tues. (AAP).--Alaska is almost defenceless, and could be taken to-morrow by one or two Russian airborne…

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War Trial Continues

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 3

HAMBURG, Wed. (A.A.P.).--When the trial of Field Mars al Erich Von Manstein was continued yesterday, Mr. R. T…

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Tug-of-war Over Peace Prize

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 7

The Swedish Academy decided recently to shelve this year's Nobel Prize for literature, because it was…

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Scouts to Hold Service For War Dead

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 November 1949 · page 4

Grafton Scouts' Committee decided on Thursday night to hold a Scouts' own memorial church service on December…

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Honour Roll Unveiled

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 4

CORAMBA.--Coramba R.S.L. Women's Auxiliary conducted their first annual ball during which the honour roll was…

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War Fund Balance To Local Regiment

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 2

AT the final meeting cf the Clarence River District Patriotic and War Fund approval was given to the recommendation of the committee that after paying the proportion due to the Maclean and District Repatriation Local Committee (£575), the surplus…

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Reported Apology for War Crimes Execution

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 1

VIENNA, Sun. (A.A.P.).-- Yugo-slavia has apologised to Austria and will offer her compensation for wrongfully…

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May Use Atom Gas in Future War

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 3

FRANKFURT, Sun. (.A.P.). --The Soviet might launch an attack with "atomically impregnated" gas if war broke…

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After The War Was Over

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 2

Speaking at a street meeting at Tamworth in support of the Country Party candidates for New England (Messrs. D. M…

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Dispute On Soldier Settlement Standard

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 4

CASINO.--It was a great shock that Lismore sub-branch should seem sceptical of an announcement by him that a farm near…

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Denies Allegations On War Strategy

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--Allegations contained in a recently published book by General George Kenny,…

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War Pension Delays

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 5

CASINO.--The delay to-day in finalising war service pension claims was worse than 25 years ago, Mr. E. G. Davies said at a…

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Grafton War Nurse to Receive Medal

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 2

CAPTAIN Anderson, daughter of the late Donald and Mrs. M. J. Anderson, of Grafton, has been summoned to attend the investiture, to be held at Government House, Sydney on December 6, when the Governor of New South Wales, General Northcott,…

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To Draw Plan for Cold War'

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 3

PARIS, Wed. (AAP).--Observers here believe that the recent secret Cominform meetign in Budapest, and the Peking session…

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What is War Neurosis?

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 1

A Coffs Harbour medical man's definition of war neurosis. and its treatment is quoted:— "The general impression…

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Cominform's Communique Like War Manifesto

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday (A.A.P.).--Britain's Hector McNeil yesterday told the General Assembly that the Cominform's latest communique read more like a war manifesto than a peace manifesto…

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Good Dumb Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AAP). --The Army Chief of Staff, Lt. General J. Lawton Collins, told a press conference here that the…

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