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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1954

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Editorial R.S.L. and Anzac Day Arrangements

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 2

Discussion as to whether the Anzac Day dawn service in Goulburn should be made religious in character has established a live topic, which should be given very careful consideration by all sides before any further steps, which might be regretted later, are taken…

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Yass District Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute Library Hours

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 28 June 1954 · page 4

Nightly Monday to Friday inclusive, 7 to 8 p.m. Afternoons Tuesday and Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m…

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France Will Pursue the War If Talks Fail

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 July 1954 · page 3

PARIS, Thursday: French Prime Minister, Pierre Mendes-France, said that night that France will pursue the war in Indo-China with all the military means…

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Soldiers Get Measles

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 1

Forty National Service Trainees are in Ingleburn. Army Camp hospital—with measles. Some men do as much…

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Atom War If Conflict In Indo-China Grows

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 3

ALLAHABAD, Monday: The world would face near annihilation through full scale atom and hydrogen bomb warfare if. the war in Indo-China was allowed to spread, the Prime Minister of India (Mr…

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End of Indo-china War on 'Deadline'

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

GENEVA Wednesday: Full agreement was reached here early to-day on a complete indo-China peace settlement, thus bringing in sight a speedy close to the bitter hostilities in the war-torn associated states, where the…

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War Ends with Pledge—and U.s. Warning

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 3

GENEVA, Thursday: War in Indo-China ended last night with an East-West pledge that Vietnam—cut in halves under the cease-fire agreement—will be reunified after elections in two years' time…and a warning on any new aggression, by…

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'War Of Words' Over Air Incidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Britain and the United States yesterday engaged Communist China in a "war of words" at the official level over the grave For Eastern crisis springing from last Friday's destruction, with loss of life,…

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Soldiers Blown Up, Teachers Caged Indo-China Reports

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Outbreaks of Communist brutality, such as the blowing up of militiamen with explosives tied to their bodies, and the public exhibition of caged teachers, were reported from Indo-China to-day…

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"War-Sooner Or Later" New York, Monday

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 6

NEW YORK, Monday: President Syngman Rhee, of South Korea, whose plea for an immediate all out war…

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Many Hurt In Film "War"

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 3

ROME Friday: Forty-three "extras" were injured and 160 bruised during the shooting of a cattle scence in the film…

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Soldier Settlers' Request Granted By Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 August 1954 · page 2

Mulwaree Shire Council last week told representatives of Willeroo soldier settlers that prosecutions would not be launched on landholders owning land on which the noxious weed saffron thistle was growing…

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Service Before Anzac March

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 1

The State Governor, Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott yesterday suggested that the Returned Servicemen's League…

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"Wage-War" Biggest Since Pre-Nazi Days

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 3

FRANKFUTR, West Germany, Wednesday: More than four million workers—a quarter of West Germany's total labour force—may join the 200,000 metal and public service workers already on strike in the "biggest wage…

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"Preventive War" Is Impossible— "Ike"

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 August 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: President Dwight Eisenhower to-day dismissed as ridiculous, completely unthinkable and impossible, the idea of a "preventive War" against Communist powers…

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Soldiers Arrested On Express

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 August 1954 · page 1

Two soldiers from Kapooka Military Camp, Wagga, were brought before Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions this morning…

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Soldiers Called To Quell Convicts' Riot

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 August 1954 · page 3

KINGSTON. Ontario, Sunday: Rioting convict touched off a big fire at Kingston Penitentiary in an escape…

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Russians Toast "Against War"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Russian Defence Minister, Marshal Bulganin, drank a toast" against war and for peace" with Western envoys in Moscow last night. Bulganin and the envoys were…

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Graziers Wage War on Foxes

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 6

Local graziers have arranged drives in recent weeks as a result of alarming lambing losses. In one particular drive…

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Soldier Settlers And Rabbit Infestation

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 3

The Lands Department is seeking the co-operation of Goulburn Pastures Protection Board to help control…

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