“Total War” Against Communists
LONDON, July 19.— A call “total war” against the India Communist Party was made the United Provinces Police…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1949
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British Soldiers Sent To Gaol
LONDON, July 20.—At Fayid, In [?] Suez Canal zone, a courtmartial convicted nine British soldiers of having inflicted grievous bodily harm…
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LOS ANGELE& July. 21—Gangster butlets early yesterday wounded gambling czar Mickey Cohen and three other persons…
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ABERDEEN: The War Memorial Library at the Aberdeen Public School Is now functioning, and there is keen competition for books…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Groves of trees should replace stone war memorials, the Minister for Education (Mr Heffron) told the…
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Production in British industry and agriculture is now 25 p.c. above the pre-war level, according to official…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Historian Says There Will Be No Third Shooting War
NEW YORK, July 22.—British historian Arnold J. Toynbee predicted to-day that there would be no third world war “of a shooting kind.” He said, however, that “cold war” which he considers a blossing in disguise, might continue for several generations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Modern British Lightships to Replace Those Lost in the War
A fleet of modern light vessels, giving their crews "luxury" conditions compared with pre-war ships, and with many technical improvements, are now taking the place of those lost by Britain in the war. Half of the 16 Trinity…
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CANBERRA, Saturday.—Australia was suffering far more disastrously at the hands of a Communist minority than it did at the hands…
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Balkan diplomats in Vienna have been told that Yugoslavia may be invaded by Greek Communist rebels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Says Britain Fighting War on Two Fronts Caught Between Communist Attack and Tremendous Economic Problems
British Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross) and the Deputy-Leader of the Conservative Party (Mr. Eden) have both urged Britain to build a strong front against Communism…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railmen to Move Coal at Grass and Open Cuts Soldiers Ready to Mine on Monday Next
Week-end developments in the coal strike included: The commencement tomorrow morning of the transport by rail to Sydney of 14,000 tons of…
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HONGKONG, July 27 (AAP-Reuter). — Chinese Nationalists lost over 43,000 men In the recent fighting against…
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Development of jet - propelled planes has progressed further in Britain than in any country. This statement was recently made by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“War Danger Seems To Be Receding”
LONDON, July 27.—Addressing the service at a training camp near Norfolk, the I Secretary for War (Emanuel Shinwell). sai dthe tense, dreadful possibility of war seemed to be receding, but they must not allow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →G. B. Shaw Says Stalin Is “Mainstay of Peace” Blames Bevin For ‘Panic About War’
LONDON, July 28.—Stating that Marshal Stalin was the mainstay of peace in Europe, famous author George Bernard Shaw blames the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, for starting “all this panic nonsense of a jingo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: Chifley And The Banks Acheson Deplores Press Report That “Russia Was Arming For War”
WASHINGTON, July 28.— Press reports that the State Department had secret information that Russia was arming for war were deplored by the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, at a Press conference here…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Declared on Dingoes
The Central Tablelands and Hunter Dingo Destruction Board, which was formed by the Minister of Agriculture at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communist War On Church
VATICAN CITY, July 29.—An all-out Communist against the Roman Catholic Church in Poland has-been called…
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