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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

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Now We Shall Have New Stage of the Long “Cold War.”

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 6

Russia now has the atomic bomb, but the United States claims to have a “bigger stockplle”, Both countries are claiming they are auxious to have atomic we[?]ons outlawed…

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Radar Proves Effective in Naval War Tactics

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY (Aboard the Warship, Ballon[?], at Sea), Tuesday.—The value of radar in modern naval war[?] was clearly demonstrated…

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Soviet Intensifies Attacks on Tito American Diplomats Anxious About Propaganda War

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, October 11 (A.A.P.).—American diplomats from Eastern Europe who will confer in London are to meet primarily to consider Russian propaganda in the cold war against the United States, a Government…

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World War Would Be Won on Land

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 (AAP)— Any future war with Russia would be a long global struggle, not merely an atomic bitz says…

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Third War Inevitable General Sturdee's Belief

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 7

A belief that a third world war, in which Russia and her satellites would clash with the Western World was inevitable, was expressed by the Chief…

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A War-time Friendship is Renewed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 3

A young Englishman, who walked into the Sydney office of the Red Cross National Tracing Bureau, and asked for news of…

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Soldier Settlement Act Challenged

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 5

The Minister for Lands, Mr. W. F. Sheahan, said in the Legislative Assembly that a property owner had issued writs…

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Soldier Settlers Making Good

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said in a statement to-day that the success of war service land…

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Evatt Hits at Talk of “War Inevitable” Ghastly Prospect For Children

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday. — The thought that there were people among us who believed in the inevitability of war was a grim and ghastly prospect for the children of the world, said the Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H. V…

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U.K. Soldiers Told to Be “Respectful to Germans” “Must Get Closer” Says General

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 4

BERLIN, October 17.—Many Germans were finding “British self assurance hard to [?]wallow,” said the British High Commissioner in Germany, General Sir Brian Robertson, when he told British military officers that they must…

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War in Yugoslavia Would Spread

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (AAP).—Marshal Tito is quoted by the New Post as telling William Gailmor in a Belgrade interview…

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Russia Preparing for War in Own Time

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Oct. 19 (AAP.)— Lord Vansittart, pre-war diplomatic adviser to the British Government, charged that the…

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Out, and in Again German Woman War Criminal

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 2

"This is the worst day of my life," Use Koch told reporters when German police re-arrested her immediately…

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"Ball of Fire" Bishop's Warning on Atomic War

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

The Bishop of Birmingham. Dr. E. W. Barnes, said that the use of atomic bombs in another war might set up a chain…

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Last Jap War Trial 700 Executed, 2500 Gaoled

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

The last scheduled war crimes trial in Japan ended this week with a sentence of five years hard labor for a former…

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Soldiers Entertain Auxiliary

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 4

A most enjoyable evening was had in the new clubroom by all who attended, when the local sub-branch of the R.S.S. and A.I.L. entertained their…

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Soldiers' "Made Up" Salaries

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 2

The Government should refund taxes paid on servicemen's "made-up" salaries during the war, said the State president of…

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War Service Land Ballots

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 3

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said to-day that applicants for admission to ballot for war service land settlement…

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Boer War Veterans Entertained

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 2

Opening of the Boer War hostilities, on October 11, 1899, when the Boers invaded Natal, was commemorated by Branxton sub-branch of…

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War Honour Equated Two Years’ Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—One of the 11 American Communist leaders convicted of conspiracy to-day said bitterly that his…

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