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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

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Roulette Wheels Touch Off New “Cold War”

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 September 1949 · page 4

SAN MARINO.—Italian gambling interests are waging a “cold war” against the Government of Son Marino, tiny republic among the mountains of Central Italy. The dispute, only blot in…

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Tito Says There Will Be No War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 September 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Sept. 7—Marshal Tito told a special correspondent of the “New York Times” that, despite the tension existing between Yugoslavia…

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Professor Says Russia Won War

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 September 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Sept. 12—Professor J. D. Bernal, Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, London, re[?] that the believed Russia won the war…

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Professor Stands by Speech "Russia Won the War"

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 September 1949 · page 3

Professor J. D. Bernal last night defended the speech he had made in Moscow on August 27, which led to the…

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War Veterans' Art Union

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

The War Veterans No. 13 Art Union will be publicly drawn on Tuesday night, October 4. Tickets me available for 1/ or 24 for £ from all local…

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"Warm War" in Yugoslavia

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 8

Yugoslavia made the latest move in the Balkans "warm war" last night by a warning that charges made against…

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Professor Stands by Speech "Russia Won the War"

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 4

Professor J. D. Bernal last week defended the speech he had made in Moscow on August 27, which led to the…

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Late Global News Latest Move in "Warm" War Belerade

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 2

Yugoslavia last night made the latest move in the Balkans "warm war" by warning that the charges made against her in the…

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Disabled Soldiers’ Pensions

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday. — The Minister for Repatriation, Mr. H. C. Barnard, said the Government would not increase…

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War Memorial for Morpeth

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 2

Morpeth Progress Association will ask Maitland City Council For permission to erect an additional war memorial in…

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Ex-soldiers Annoyed "Left Out of Budget"

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 2

A conference of representatives of ex-Service organisations this week will protest against the Federal…

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P.P. Board to Use Poison Fog Machine. War on Grasshoppers. Hatching in Millions As Summer Approaches

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 1

Lethel fog warfare may soon be used against the huge swarms of plague grasshoppers which annunally destroy valuable Central…

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Vyshinsky Wants To See Cold War Ended

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 1

FLUSHING (New York), Sept. 22 (A.A.P.). — Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky would like to see the “cold war” ended…

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Soldiers' Point School

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 6

Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following letter from the Minister for Education, Mr. R. J. Heffron, "I [?] to your further personal…

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Soldiers’ League President

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 2

Two candidates will oppose the Federal president of the Returned Servicemen’s League, Mr. Eric Millhouse. K.C.. at elections for…

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War Memorial to Pigeons

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1949 · page 6

One day in 1944 two exhausted Royal Air Force carrier pigeons rested in a garden in High Salvington, Sussex (Eng.) and…

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Lag in Training for War

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 1

Lieut-Gen savlge declared recently that the Federal Government’s failure to train an adequate number of…

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Must Renounce War Says Church Leader

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The only real defence for mankind was to renounce War and repudiate the whole Institution of warmaking,…

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Threat Of Civil War In Colombia

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The South American Republic of Colombia is threatened with civil unless peace is established…

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Observers Forecast Korean Civil War (From Warren White, AAP-Reuter Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 3

TOKIO: Civil war in Korea before the year’s end is a common prediction in both Korea and Japan to-day. South Korea’s 100,000-strong army and powerful, harshly, disciplined police force has been alerter for possible…

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