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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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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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Samurai Swords Into Plowshares Ex-War Lords Facing A New Life

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 24 July 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Several minor Japanese ex-war lords who new live in the BCOF area are busy beating their Samurai swords into ploughshares, Working in his garden with his trousers rolled up above…

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Winning “CoId War” In Korea

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, July 27.—The United States is winning the “cold war” in Korea. This was stated to-day by the…

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War Brides Anxious To Return Home

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An Australian woman who returned to Australia with her husband and child by the Ranchi to-day said that 100 Australian war brides who went to England three years ago on the Dominion Monarch were…

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Three World War 2 Men Join Citizen Forces

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 2

TWO ex-[?]orvicement with three years’ service In New Guinea and Borneo In World War It. and another who served In Australia,…

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Books and Authors (By a Special Correspondent)CHINA and the War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 4

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

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600 KILLED: 1400 Injured in Vast Explosion Europe’s Greatest D[?]ster Since The War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

FRANKFURT, July 29.—According to German news agency nates, 600 persons were killed and 1400 injured—1200 serial only—in a vast explosion which tore the heart out of the massive, sprawling I. G. Farben plant at Ludwigshafen yesterday…

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Post War Reconstruction News and Views

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 2

For the first time in N.S.W. a technical college has been provided to cater for the needs of employees in a newly established industrial area…

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Britain's Overseas Trade Teen and Now a True Comparison on a Pre-war Values Basis

Singleton Argus · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

A true comparison between Britain's overseas trade now and before the war has been made possible by an official…

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Gathered Information During The War Former U.S. Communist Spy’s Testimony

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, July 31.— Elizabeth Pearl Bentley, former Communist spy in the United States, whose testimony before the New York Grand Jury, recently resulted in indictments against 12 leading Communists on charges alleging…

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Gossip-mongers Are Busy in Belgrade Rumours of War, Food Crises and Phantom Murderers(From Peter ,Furst, Reuter’s Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1948 · page 6

BELGRADE (By Airmail).—No rumour, is too farfetched or improbable not to be token as gospel and spread far and wide by gullible, unoccupied Belgrodians. This has been particularly noticeable in recent months,…

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Singleton Soldier’s League Finances

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1948 · page 3

SINGLETON, Sat.—“The Returned Soldiers’ League is in a very satisfactory position, and it Is pleasing to know we have almost £2000…

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Arabs Want War

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

The Arab Higher Committee has proclaimed a resumption of the holy war to restore independence in Palestine, reports a…

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The Way To Win Without War

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

The answer to the Communist political programme is neither war nor appeasement, but a dynamic, democratic, political…

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War Trils Criticised "expensive failure," says journalist

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

The Japanese war crimes trials had been an expensive failure, and no sentences imposed would alter the…

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Plans to Revive Opium Industry Collapsed Since War

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 1

Efforts are being made by the C.S.I.R. and N.S.W. Department of Agriculture to revive the opium poppy growing…

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Singleton RSL To Care for War Graves Fine Gesture By Member

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 1

Mr O. Muller, a member of the Singleton R.S.L. subbranch will attend the graves of six servicemen buried in a,…

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Tojo Regained “Face” In Jousts With Prosecutor War Trials “Expensive Failure”

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, August 2.—Writing in the “Herald Tribune’s” Sunday magazine, Frank White said that no sentences imposed would alter the Japanese opinion that Tojo made out a strong case for Japan and ably defended Japan’s…

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Roosevelt's Aid Named as Spy Claim That War Secrets Were Given Out

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

One of the late President Roosevelt's confidential executive assistants and a former Assistant Secretary to the…

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Four Soldiers Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

A military lorry ran off the New England Highway into a culvert near Tally-Ho park, Rutherford, and four soldiers were…

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