Communist Support for Russia If War Breaks
Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 1
LONDON, March 7.—Latest pronouncements of Communist support for Russia in the event of a third World War have come from Belgium and Israeli. The Belgian Communist Party’s central committee yesterday…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 1
The latest Communist pronouncements of support for Russia in the event of war come from Belgium and Israel…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 2
KARACHI, March 7.—Captain Raymond Gifford, an Australian pilot, of Arcadia-street, Sydney, received three gunshot wounds…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1
CAIRO, March 8.—Field-Marshal Aziz el Masry Pasha, pre-war chief of the Egyptian Army General Staff, has been released…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 1
Captain Raymond Gifford, an Australian pilot, of Arcadia Street, Sydney,, received three gunshot wounds in the legs, at…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 1
A former high-ranking R.A.A.F. officer yesterday divulged his plans for a long range campaign against rabbits which have invaded his property situated in the Upper Hunter Valley. This plan included the division of his property into four…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 2
The Minister for Post-war Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) announced this week that the Government had acquired six…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 1
LAKE SUCCESS, March 10.— Experienced diplomats at UNO headquarters say that the recent changes among senior Soviet…
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Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 5
During the current season, one of Britain's factories which makes sugar from beet has broken the world's record. It has handed more than half a million tons…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 1
LONDON, March 10.—Allegations that Communist propaganda in Britain, and an intelligence system in British factories, had been financed by the bulk of money derived from artificial jewellery, which the Czechoslovak embassy had smuggled into the country in its diplomatic bags, were made by Lord Vansittart in the House of Lords…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 4
Maitland “Kangaroo,” John Graves, will be welcomed home on Saturday night at the Mechanics’ Institute, East Maitland,…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Two gunmen, who have allegedly confessed to holding up a train in West Virginia on Wednesday night, when 150 passengers were robbed of £500, were captured by the police in a gun bottle…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 8
Also in The Scone Advocate
Attention is drawn to the closing date of the above Art Union on 21st March, and the drawing date March 28th, 1949. The prize list is perhaps…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 3
BREMEN: Bremerhoven, one of the largest pre-war fishing ports in Europe in to-day regaining its former importance. The port now employs more than 8300 persons —almost 40 per cent more than in 1945. Of these, 2200…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 3
LONDON: As fashion designers look more and more to the Edwardian period of the beginning of the century for their inspiration for post-war fashions, Britons themselves are apt to look upon that decade before World War I as…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 2
Over 150 friends and well-wishers warmly greeted John Graves, Australian representative Rugby League footballer, as he entered…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 2
BRANXTON, Monday. — The secretary of Branxton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League (Mr. H. Nevin) advises that…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 2
Attention is drawn to the closing date of the above Art Union on March 21, and the drawing date on March 28, 1949…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1949 · page 1
WASHINGTON, March 15.—Russia wilt not fight to long as the free people of the world stand together. Mr. Paul Hoffman, Economic Co-operation Administrator, said this to-day when he welcomed a Swedish trade…
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