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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Money For War And Peace

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 6

"If we can find unlimited money for war why can't we find it for peacetime development"? This question asked by so many…

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Slept in War Area

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 1

Seoul, Tuesday.— Blonde, glamorous American film actress Audrey Totter slept peacefully in her berth on…

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The War in Korea

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 1

THERE'S LITTLE here to indicate this isn't a World War I. trench warfare scene. It's actually a…

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Jap War Criminal Is Dead

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 5

Tokio, Sunday.— Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, former Japanese Premier, who was serving a sentence of life…

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Ex- Soldier to Lose His Block

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 8

Glen Innes.—The War Service Land Settlement Board in Glen Innes has recommended that a district…

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War Risk Political Extremists

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 1

Sydney, August 26.—Power politics could collapse into a general war through…

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Still Fighting Ice Cream War

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 11

Canberra—A battle which began last summer is still being waged to decide whether Canberra children are to be allowed to buy ice-cream cones and wafers from street…

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Rifle Prank Wounded Boy

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 August 1952 · page 3

Sydney. — Robert John Scadden (13), of Maitland Road, Lisarow, near Gosford, accidentally shot…

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Cowboys Wage War on Bat

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 August 1952 · page 4

New York, Friday. — Mexican cowboys are riding the range with flame-throwers to fight off their…

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War Memorial to Turks

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 September 1952 · page 7

Istanbul.—Turkey is planning to build a national memorial to 55,000 Turkish soldiers who died in the…

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Jap War Criminals to Get Vote

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 September 1952 · page 2

Tokio, Sunday. — War criminals in Tokio's Sugamo prison would be allowed to vote in the coming elections…

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Soldiers on Duty in U.S. Hottest Spot

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 September 1952 · page 2

New York.—Out in the barren, blistering Colorado desert, where not even a rabbit lives, a handful of sun-burned soldiers are trying to find new ways to keep cool. It's the hottest spot in the…

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War Costs

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 4

New York. Monday.—The Korean war, the rearmament programme and other current official spending are…

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Russian Way to Avoid New War

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 2

Washington, Monday. — World War III could be avoided by the violent overthrow of Stalin's regime, Mr…

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Allies Strike at Red Bases in Korea War

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 1

Tokio, Monday. — United Nations officers here tonight linked the big Allied carrier strikes within 12 miles of Siberia today with the arrival in Tokio of the British representative (Major-Gen…

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War Criminals Demand Liberty

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 September 1952 · page 3

Tokio, Wednesday—Foreign correspondents for the first time interviewed war criminals in Tokio's Sugamo prison today, and heard a demand that those…

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U.S. Call To Ex-Soldiers For Money To Build New And Deadlier, Weapo[?]s

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 4 September 1952 · page 6

New York, September 2.— Top civilian heads of the Army Navy and Air Force have called on…

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Aust. Soldiers Test Armor Yest

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 September 1952 · page 5

Tokio, Friday.—The American nylon armor vests tried by British Commonwealth troops in Korea have now all received hits from bullets or shrapnel…

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'Monty Could Have Cut War Short'

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 5

London, Wednesday. — Field Marshall Montgomery could have won the German war in 1944, Nazi General…

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Russians Arrest Five Britons 3 Soldiers Missing

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 1

Berlin, Wednesday.—Two British officers have been arrested and three British soldiers are missing, the British Army authorities, announced tonight…

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