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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

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Scone and District War Memorial Swimming Pool Committee Annual Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Scone and District War Memorial Swimming Pool Committee was held recently, when…

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Ballot On Anzac Day Service

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 4

MERRIWA: At the monthly meeting of the Merriwa sub-branch of the RSS and AILA, the president of the Merriwa Race…

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Should Bomb Manchurian Railway and Risk War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 5

WASHINGTON: Lieut.-General Wodemayar, said yesterday that the United States should take “a calculated [?] of war” with…

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Land For Soldier Settlement

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 4

About 13,000 acres of Mount Tenandra property, in the Gulargambone district, are to the bought for soldier settlement…

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Polish War Prisoners Reunited In Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 5

Follow Pr[?] of war runs having grown up together in the [?] town fast [?] there New Australian former Royal…

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N. S. W. Leads in Enlistments

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY. New Bunch Wales maintained foe the permanent form [?] once third of the Communication total called…

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The Eskimos Kept a War Secret

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 June 1951 · page 4

LONDON.—Members of a German Army wireless unit remained untraced in Greenland until last August…

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War Casualties

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON: United States battle casualties in Korea reached 72,604 up to yesterday [?] Increase of 8287 to the past week…

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Cold War Directed Against Russia Suggested Alternative To Third World War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK :“A gigantic "propaganda crusade” to provoke revolution in the Soviet Union as an alternative to third world war was urged in a speech here by Gardner Cowles, president and editor of the magazines, Look and…

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Thai Official Fatally Wounded

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 June 1951 · page 1

PENANG (AAP- Reuter) : Nal Prasong Khambongsa, Chancellor of the Thai Consisted in Penang, was fatally wounded…

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Did Not Say War Was Over (A. A. P Reuter)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 June 1951 · page 1

TOKYO: Commander of Bri[?] Commonwealth troops on Japan and Korea (Llent-General [?] Horse Robertson…

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Korean War Was to Repel Aggression Allies Must Always Be Prepared For Attacks

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State (Mr. Dean Acheson) thinks it would be a mistake to regard the Soviet proposal for a cease fire along the 38th Parallel in Korea as any shift in Soviet policy or purpose…

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Protests On Soldier Settlement Few Only, Says Minister

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 10

The much-publicised protests of a few large landholders against compulsory resumption of land for soldier settlement represents…

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Russia and War

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 2

In veiw of the prevailing fear of war with Russia and the great. Western Powers which would involve Australia in great risk, it may be well…

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Manus War Test Field

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 7

Manas Island is to be used as a tropical testing ground for secret weapons. The Army is expected to use it…

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Sidelights of Korean War Scene

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 1

TOP: This little refugee North Korean orphan ignores dangers and hardships to keep up with his lessons. This boy is being cared for in an orhpanage on Koje Do Island, off the coast of South Korea,…

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Review. War, Dictatorship—or a World of Peace

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

Which way shall we go? Will it be world dictatorship, world war, or a world rebuilt? Peter Howard, British writer, and journalist, in his new…

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Hopes High for of Korean War Order For Negotiations On Cease Fire

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK: Supreme Allied commonder in the Far East (General matthew Highway) has proposed that the commander-in-chief of the Communist forces in Koren should meet him on a Danish hospital ship in Wonsan horbour to discuss an armistice. This follows immediately on orders from Washington to General Ridgway to…

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Soldiers Hold Back Persian Looters

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 3

TEHIRAN: Persian soldiers and police held back crowds of Persians who yesterday waited on the fringes of the…

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Work of Legacy for War Widows, Orphans Responsibilities Of Clubs Are Increasing

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 2

Legatee J. Miles, chairman of appeals committee in Hunter Legacy told the Rotary Club of Maitland something of the history of Legacy, of the services rendered by Hunter Legacy in its area and outlined the methods of raising funds…

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