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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Retribution For Jap War Criminals

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 2

CANBERRA, Saturday.—. Retribution continues to follow Japanese War Criminals who committed atrocities against Australian…

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Still Have Right to Free Treatment in Public War Use Intermediate As Public If Demand Too Heavy, Says Minister

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—Although fees in public hos[?] have been doubled to meet increased working costs, dents of N.S.W. still have the right to obtain free treat in public wards, the Minister for Health, Mr. C. A. [?]…

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Man Critically Wounded At Woy Woy Charge of Shooting Preferred

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday.—A man was shot in the stomach during an argument over a bicycle at Hardy’s Bay, Woy Woy, last night. Victim of the shooting, William Ralph (40),…

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£159,000 For War Story

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.— General Eisenhower, who led the Allied military forces in Europe during the war, has…

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Announcement Causes War Eve Tension

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 2

Pandit Nehru's declaration that India, in self-defence, might be called to enter Pakistan, has created something…

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War Graves Well Tended In Siam

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. —The graves of Australian prisoners who died while working on the Burma-Slant railway are well looked after…

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U.n.o. Could Make War Impossible Plea by Australia's Dr. Evatt

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 2

If U.N.O. can be kept alive for two or three more years it may become virtually impossible for another shooting war…

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Repairs to Morpeth War Memorial

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 January 1948 · page 2

When Morpeth Progress Association meets on Wednesday next, it will discuss the proposal to carry out repairs to the…

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Big War Damage Pay Out

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 2

Payments amounting to £100,000,000 sterling are beta made in Britain as compensation to the owners of such…

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Residents Complain About Singapore War Cemetery

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 2

SINGAPORE, January 7 .(AAP-Reuter).—More complaints have been made by Singapore residents against conditions in the Woodlands war cemetery, near the Jobore causeway, where there are more than 4000 graves, 800 of…

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Shanghai Has a Changed Face Famous City Does Not Resemble Pre-war Elegance

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 1

Shanghai, alter eight years' Japanese occupation and two years' Chinese rule, bears little resemblance to-day to the…

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High Ranking Soldier Coming to Australia

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 2

The Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Lieut.-General Robertson) will fly to Australia…

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Free Learning for the Soldier

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 2

Army authorities in Britain are using all available means to give each soldier a liberal education, planned on the most…

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Pigeons Played Their Part in War

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 5

TWO Army pigeons, now mounted in the Canberra War Museum have been decorated with the equivalent of the Victoria…

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Atom Bomb Was War's Best-Kept Secret

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 8

The fantastically detailed system of precautions and checks guarding the wartime development of the atom bomb is…

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Russia Plans For 1950 War Steel Being Flooded In

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 4

Russia plans to be ready for war by 1950, according to information gathered by Scripps-Howards' Foreign…

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Tojo Advised War, He Says Admission at International Tribunal

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 6

Hideki Tojo stepped down from the witness stand at the International Military Tribunal in Tokyo after…

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No War For Many Years Belief of Australia's Army Minister

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

The Minister for the Army (Mr. Chambers) said yesterday he believed there was no possibility of war for many…

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Returned Soldiers' League

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

The monthly meeting of the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League will be held at the R.S. L. Club to-night (Friday) at 8 o'clock…

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Army Chief Wants Re-enlistments Monthly Enlistments Slow

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

Army authorities have decided to encourage interim army personnel not to return to civil life but to re-engage…

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