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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Seizure of T.N.T. in Jersey City For Use In War In Palestine

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 5

NEW YORK: The New York police have so far been unable to establish the whereabouts of Julius Chender, owner of the Manhattan warehouse in which military material was found…

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War Canoes on Dear Side

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 8

AUCKLAND, Northern Maoris decided to build a war canoe for the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser). They selected two forest trees,…

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Pensioner Found Dead Near Hut William "Anzac" Brown

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 4

William Norman "Anzac" Brown, aged 60 years, a pensioner, from World War 1. was found dead near his but on…

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Life in China To-day a Poor Man's Civil War

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 3

TSINAN, December 13: While Physicists throughout the world continue to devise ways and means for making mightier and deadlier atom bombs, Chinese nationalists and peasants in Shantung, Anhwei and Kiangsu provinces are resorting to medieval methods of defence. In this poor man's civil war barbed wire and…

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Russians Ready for War by 1950!

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON: Russia plans to be ready for war by 1950, according to information gathered by Scripps Howard's foreign editor, William Philip Simms. "Output of high-grade steel in…

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Intensive Training by Arab Guerillas Fighting Now Like Real War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 5

JERUSALEM; Monday: Haganah forces are believed to have been responsible for blowing up "the bridge of Jacob's daughters" over the River Jordan on the Palestine-Syrian frontier last night…

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Young Soldier Convicted on Assault Charge Magistrate Warns Defendant About "Army Practices"

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

Convicting a young soldier on an assault charge, Mr. Hook, S.M., in Goulburn Police Court yesterday, warned him not to "carry out Army practices in civil life."…

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Early Ballots For Two Soldier Areas

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

Two properties in the Goulburn District —Hillcrest and Currandooley—will soon be made available to ex-servicemen under the War Service Land Settlement scheme…

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Getting Ready for the Next War Bigger Air Fleet Urged For U.S.

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 5

WASHIGTON. Tuesday: Fears that "other nations" after 1952 will have enough atomic equipment to deliver a sustained attack on the United States may result in the United States Air…

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573. Applications From Soldiers for Eight Blocks

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 1

For the eight blocks of land on .the Merribindinyah Estate, 573 returned soldiers have submitted applications…

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"New Look" for U.S. Post-war Cars What Advance Reports Say

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 2

WASHINGTON: The first full flow of genuine post war motor cars will shortly appear on the American market. Judging by advance reports all will go in for…

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State Governor May Visit ‘Linton’ It is possible that the State Governor (Lieut. General Northcott) may visit “Linton,” Yass War Veterans’ Home, in March

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

Mr. R. Henderson, superintendent of “Linton”, said today that it was proposed to invite the Governor to attend the Garden…

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Militarism in U.S.A. ATTACKED Philosophers v Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Sunday: Professor Aibert Einstein, three university presidents and 16 other prominent educators, clergymen and authors today issued a pamphlet warnian that America could…

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Chifley Scouts War

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 1

BATHURST: The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, at Bathurst scouted the suggestion that another war was likely to occur…

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Returned Soldier’s Action Recorded

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 5

The Bowning Ex-Servicemen’s and Women’s Club, of which Mr. Thomas E. Daley is patron brought under the notice of the…

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250 Farms Available for Land Settlement in N.s.w. During Net Two Months Twenty-one More Farms for Soldiers in Boorowa District Minister for Lands Address to Local Returned Servicemen

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

"During the next two months there will be 250 farms available for soldier settlement in N.S.W.," said the Minister for Lands, Mr. W. F. Sheahan, M.L.A., when addressing, members of the Returned Soldiers'…

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Land for Soldiers Goulburn Area Is In Doubt

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

Advice that the State Government had abandoned "The Pelican," well-known Goulburn…

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Goulburn District Soldier Settler Activities

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

Reports regarding the settlement of ex-servicemen on single a[?]t farms in the Goulburn district were presented to…

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A Job Well Done Assistance To Ex-soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

We boxed on on with the authorities well and truly, and we have achieved something that has…

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Milk Supplies for City Soldier Settlers As Producers

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 5

"It is deplorable that thousands of gallons of milk should be transported from the coast to supply Goulburn for four or five months of the year," declared Mr. C. A. Ballard, chairman of…

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