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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

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Land Forces Are Needed Modern War Strategy Calls For Ground Attack WASHINGTON

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 1

Failure of sea and air power alone to ha[?] the enemy in Korea demonstrated the need for United States ground troops to help defend Europe, General J. Lawton Collins, army thief of staff, told the Senate foreign relations and…

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War Criminals Will Be Executed WASHINGTON

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 1

The United States Court of Appeals has refused to halt the scheduled execution in Germany of seven convicted Nazi war…

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Britain’s Part in Korean War London

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 1

Latest information Indicated that the Chinese counter-offensive In Korea had been halted, Defence Minister Emanuel…

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Australian Labour Party Soldiers' Point Branch

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 5

The annual meeting of the Soldiers' Point Branch of the Australian Labor Party was bold in Monday, February 12th…

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Soldiers Killed by Anti-freeze Mixture (Australian Associated Press) San Francisco

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 6

About 150 U.S. servicemen died in Korea in December, after drinking an anti-freeze mixture in the belief that it was pure…

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Panic in U.S., When "Martians" Landed, Is Recalled "War Of The Worlds" Broadcast

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 1

ON SUNDAY evening, October 30, 1938, Orson Welles, then 23 years old, put on the American…

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Australian Labor Party Soldiers' Point Branch

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 4

The Annual Meeting of the above Branch was held on Monday, February 12. Officers elected for 1951 are as…

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Peace Council Seeks No-War Pact BERLIN

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

The World Peace Council, meeting in East Harlin launched an appeal aimed to get the United States, Russia, Britain,…

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War Nurses’ Body Found in Scrub London

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

The body of 43-years-old Miss Barbara, Douglas, of Melbourne, was found In thick brushwood in Buckholt Wood, near…

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Returned Soldiers at Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 2

In a report to the annual meeting of the Singleton sub-branch of the R.S.E. and A.l.L.A. the president (Mr. J. G. Lowe) said…

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Tamworth Area For New Soldier Settlement

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 2

About 18,150 acres of Goonoo Goonoo station in the Tamworth district is to be purchased for soldier settlement…

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Airlift Of Sick And Wounded (AAP-Reuter). TOKYO

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 February 1951 · page 1

Since the beginning of airlift operations in Korea, the U.S. Far East Air Force’s combat air division has lifted 100,000 sick or…

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Russia’s Proxy War Policy London

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 2

LONDON. Minister Emanuel Shinwell warned Parliament that Russia might prune bar policy of fighting proxy ware…

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Denman War Casualty

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 2

Cpl. Don Wilson, of Denman, was wounded in action on 24th February, and was admitted to hospital by an Indian Field…

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War Service Land Settlement

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 3

The 9000-acra property Errowanbang, in the Carcoar district, is to be bought for war servicer land settlement under an…

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War Gratuities Tomorrow! £52m, Payout Due

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 1

War gratuities authorised for payment to-morrow totalled £52,791,066, the Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) said on…

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Menzies Warns of Likelihood of War CANBERRA

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 1

Prime Minister Menzies save a grave warming to-day that Australia was threatened by war within-three years…

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Goonoo. for Soldier Settlement

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 5

About 18,150 acres of Goonoo Goonoo Station, in the Tarmorth district, is to be purchased for soldier settlement under an agreement…

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War Equipment Race DETROIT

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 1

The greatest United States producer of equipment for the armed service during the last world war now is heading for a…

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Atom Bomb Symbol for All War New York

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 4

Only the most serious and desperate Situation would warrant the use of the atom bomb, according to David Li[?]enthal, former…

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