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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Italian Communist Wounded Togliatti Head of Second Biggest Communist Party

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 2

Rome, July 15.—Signor Palmiar Togliatti, General Secretary of the Communist Party, who was short and seriously wounded by a young Sicilian student yesterday, leads the biggest Communist Party outside Russia…

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Soldiers' Point Road

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 3

The Shire-Engineer at the last meeting of the Port Stephens Shire Council, reported on the Soldiers' Point road as follows: In reference to the meeting at Soldiers'…

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War Bridge Party

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 5

As a result of the war bridge party, organised by the ladies committee of the West Maitland branch of the RSL; the deaf and…

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Death of War Leaper

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 4

WASHINGTON, July 15.—General John J. Pershing, commander of the U.S. Expeditionary Force in the 1914-18 war, died to-day aged 88…

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Beautiful War Memorial For Scone

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 3

The old Parish Church of St. Luke's, Scone, scene of much of the town's and district's history in the last half century, saw a new phase on the evening of Thursday, 8th July, when, judging by the lines and lines of cars…

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Post War Reconstruction. News and Views

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 2

Later this year Sydney will see a Community and Re-establishment Exhibition which has been prepared by the Public Relations Division of the…

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Removal of World War I Sun

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 5

SINGLETON Friday—The old gun which has been in Bur[?] Park since World War L. is to be removed The gun is in a state of…

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Halt in the Palestine War Ordered Security Council Action

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 5

LAKE SUCCESS July 16 —The United Nations Security Council last night ordered the Jews and Arabs to half the Palestine war under penolty of having economic and military sanctions applied against them…

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E. M. Soldiers’ League Ball

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 4

Arrangements for the East Maitland Returned Soldiers League Ball are well under way and latest reports suggest that it will be one of…

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War Material For Greece

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 July 1948 · page 1

ATHENS, July 17. — The United States has approved the Greek Government’s request for American medium…

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Assistance for War Widows

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1948 · page 3

The following success was achieved: War Widow No. 1: For purchase; of refrigerator, £75 grunt received. War Widow No. 2: Grant towards…

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55 Killed and 12 Wounded by Terrorists

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 July 1948 · page 1

SINGAPORE, July 19 (AAP-Reuter).— Fifty-five persons have been killed and 12 wounded by terrorists in Malaya since July 1, and Singapore police are throwing “aprons” of barbed wire around all police stations as…

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To-day's World News President's Talk on Berlin Blockade. Position Likened to Munich Crisis. "War Unwanted by Either Side." Washington

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 2

Amid widespread talk of imminent danger of the United States and Russia blundering into a "premature" war, unplanned and unwanted by…

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Czech President Does Not Believe There Will Be War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 July 1948 · page 1

LONDON, July 21.— Czechoslovakia’s president, Mr. Klement Gottwald, does not believe that there will be war, but has qualified his opinion with a statement that “everything hinges on Germany.” In Eirs, the Opposition leader,…

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Opposition to Showdown With Russia Chance of Settlement on Berlin Without War "Fairly Favourable"

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 July 1948 · page 2

At their two-day conference at The Hague, the five Foreign Ministers of the Western Union—Britain, France. Belgium. Holland and Luxembourg—declared their opposition to any show down with Russia over Berlin…

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Parade for Enlistment

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 July 1948 · page 2

C Squadron 12/16 Armd. Reg., West Maitland, will hold the first enlistment parade on Friday evening next at 7.30 at the…

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What Another War Will Bring

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 5

LONDON, July 22—If war come with such devilish weapons as bacteria and chemicals, that would stunt the growth of…

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Berman Youth Believes New War On Way Few Want to Emigrate (From John Peet, Reuter’s Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 8

BERLIN (By Airmail) : Nearly 80 per cent of German youth believes that another war is en the way, according to a public opinion poll taken among students and senior school children on south Germany…

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Soldier MHR’s Want German Migrants

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 1

Two ex-servicemen, one Liberal and one Labor, urged in the House of Representatives recently that Australia…

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Literary Column China and the War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1948 · page 1

The Chinese peasant, having lived for nearly twenty years in the midst of war and internal strife, might be expected to have developed a defeatist…

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