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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

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First of War Booty Arrives in Britain

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1951 · page 1

LONDON: The 7170 tone [?] steamers Eurymedon, dooked at Liverpool last night with 100 tons of captured war [?]…

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Arms Won’t Prevent War

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 2

LONDON: Mr, Aneurin Beven, former Labour Minister, said yesterday that a third world war should not be prevented by arms…

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Gave Warning Of Korean War

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 May 1951 · page 1

BAN FRANCISCO: [?] General Albert C. [?] who warned of Communist aggression in Korea three years…

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Threat of Soviet Imperialism Korean War Gave Allies Time To Build Defences

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 May 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON : .The war in Korea had given the Allies sorely needed time and impetus to accelerate building of their defence against the threatened onslought of Soviet imperialism, tha U.S. Secretary of Defence (Mr. George…

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Canada’s Industry Ready For War Production

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 4

OTTAWA: The Canadian Government anounced that Canada’s defence industry was as ready now to produce for war as it was…

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Truman Vetoes War Extension Would Assist Kremlin Plans

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 2

WASHINGTON. Wednesday President Truman says that he refuses to extend the can war on both political and…

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Korean Soldier Will Lead Duhgog's Jubilee Procession

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 2

Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. J. Robson, of Gowanbrac, Alison, who has recently returned from, the Korean front, came by plane to Dungog…

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To-day’s Leader: Threat To Suex Allied Planes Make War’s Biggest Strike Camouflaged Airfield Of Chinese Pounded (A.A.P.-Reuter)

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 1

TOKYO: Some reports say that 50 to 70 war planes were destroyed in yesterday’s United Nations’ war planes’ biggest strike of the war on enemy jet fighters at Sinuiju, near the Manchurian border…

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Compensation For War Prisoners

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 1

LONDON: The Government Agreed last night to [?] the lead [?] Australia and the United States in trying to get…

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MacARTHUR’S Plan to End Korean War Marshall Tells Committee Why It Was Rejected

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 May 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON: The Secretary for Defence (General Marshall) said yesterday the risk of war with Russia, because of the Korean situation, was more acute than the risk taken by the United States in [?] Western Europe…

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Korean Soldier Leads Procession

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1951 · page 1

Cheers, whistles and shouts of approval greeted the procession as it moved along Dowling Street. Dungod soldier. Bruce Robson. on…

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Nurse Critically Wounded

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 May 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE.—A nineteenyear-old nurse was detained by police after another nurse had been shot and critically…

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236 War Criminals on Parole

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 May 1951 · page 3

LONDON—The Allied occupation authorities announced in Tokyo yesterday that 236 Japanese war criminals had left…

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No Let Up in War on Rabbits

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1951 · page 2

The free leg which many landholders enjoyed, while experiments were being tarried out to ascertain the mortality rote amongst rabbit by means of the virus disease, myxomatasis, is just about at on end…

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Russia Strengthens Forces Support For President On Limiting Korean War

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON: The blockage of China, bombing of Manchurian bases the use of Chinese Nationalist troops involved the risk of Russian entry into the Korean conflict and outbreak of War lll. the U.S. Defence Secretary,…

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Ex-soldier Suffocated

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE: An elderly, incapacitated ex-soldier, was suffocated by smoke when a fire broke out in his home in South…

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War Office Made Mistake In Name

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 3

LONDON: It took three telegrams and two changes of mind by the War office to tell Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fox, of Manchester,…

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GENERAL MacARTHUR’S Korean Proposals Had Military Value, But Risk Of Global War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON: General MacArthur’s Korean war proposals would increase the risk of global war, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff (General Omar Bradley) declared yesterday…

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Nerve War Launched

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Tram and bus inspectors to-day launched a nerve war on fare evaders in Sydney. Inspectors are using…

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Odds By Lloyds On War Developments

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 4

SEATTLE: Lloyds of London has set the odds 19-1 against big enough war developments to stop the conversation of the pacific…

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