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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

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

Soldier Settlement Improvement On Previous Effort

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 3

At the termination of the 1914-18 war an effort was made by the then Government to establish men on the land and…

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Wounded Miner Suffers Relapse

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1949 · page 3

LITHGOW, Fri.--A 26-year- old coalminer who was shot in the Stomach is in a serious condition in Lithgow Hospital…

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Wounded Miner Dies In Hospital

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW, Sun.--A Lithgow miner, who was shot in the stomach last Thursday, died in the Lithgow Hospital at 7.30 this…

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To Try Japs For War Crimes

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1949 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--About 90 Japanese now held in Sugamao Prison, Japan, are to be tried on Manns Island for alleged war crimes against Australian prisoners of…

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40 To Be Blamed If Holy War Broke Out

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1949 · page 3

PRAGUE, Sun. (AAP).--The Czech alone would be to blame if a holy war broke out as a result of holy war to enforce…

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Maclean Man On Criticism Bank Officers' War Record

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 December 1949 · page 2

"Evidently the action of bank officers in entering the political arena has rattled, the nerves of Labour politicians" the editor of…

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Wounded Governor's Condition Worse

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Fri. (AAP-Reuter).--The condition of Mr. Duncan Stewart, Governor of Sarawak, who was stabbed by a…

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Rabbits On War Service Estates

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 7

TAMWORTH.--At a monthly meeting of Tamworth Pastures Protection Board a letter was received from the Minister for…

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Bandit Believed Wounded In Duel

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A young bandit is believed to have been wounded as he escaped in a stolen car after a…

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Need World Government to Avoid War

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.).-- Dr. Harold Urey, who helped to develop the atomic bomb, said last night that a world Government was the only alternative to…

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Soldiers' Clubs On Park Land

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 6

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said recently that while he strongly supported' the Preservation "of Park areas, and their…

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May Release War Criminals

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 December 1949 · page 1

TOKIO, Tuesday (A.A.P.-Reuter).-- One hundred Japanese war criminals, suspected of atrocities against Australians, may be released from Sugamo Prison, Tokio,…

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Considering Policy On War Criminals

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 December 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tues.--The new non-Labour Government was already considering the policy to be followed regarding suspected…

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Inquiring Into War Pensions

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed:--The Repatriation Commission will examine the possibility of increasing war pensions, it was…

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War Gear with Beauty, Power

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 5

Keeping control of this 28-foot canopy supply parachute was more than two men could do when the chute and its load of armament came to earth at the Williamstown (N.S.W.) School of Land-Air Warfare. The officers in the picture are…

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Staggering Blow To Returned Soldiers Says Minister

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The High Court judgement invalidating the Commonwealth and State Land Settlement Schemes was described by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) to-day as a "staggering blow to returned soldiers."…

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War Disabled In U.K. To Get Motor Gars

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 December 1949 · page 6

Fifteen hundred war disabled people in Britain are being. given motor cars specially designed for them. This is disclosed in the Ministry of Pensions report for…

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Soldiers Shot at Angels

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 December 1949 · page 3

LONDON.--Target, practice by soldiers' quartered in the church at South Creake, Norfolk about 300 years ago is now believed to…

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French War-Time Speaker

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 December 1949 · page 5

FRANCOISE Rosay, famous French film actress, broadcasting in the British Broadcasting Corporation's European…

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Tweed Girl's Second Visit to War Grave

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 December 1949 · page 4

MURWILLUMBAH.--A former Tweed girl started on her second pilgrimage to Lae War Cemete[?]y recently…

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