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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Big Air Rain Seen As Change in Allied War Policy. Power Plants on Manchurian Border Bombed. 500 Bombers Em Devastating Attack. Tokyo

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 2

A major change in Allied war policy was marked yesterday by a devastating bombing raid on five major power plants on the Manchurian border, including the Suiho Dam, one of the world's biggest…

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Nostalgic Recollections Of Former Civic Leaders Mark Unveiling of MAyors' Honour Roll

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

Nostalgic recollections of the town's earlier days marked a special ceremony in the Municipal Chambers on Monday night when Singleton's official Honour Roll of Mayors was unveiled. The Roll, a well designed' wall placque of polish maple bearing in…

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Total War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 2

DURING the conflict of 1939-45 we were told often enough that the Germans invented “total war” and that they concentrated their undoubted skill and armed strength on the task of emerging…

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To-day’s Leader Total War Britain Not Aware of Mr. Churchill Defends Yalu River Attacks

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON: The British Defence Minister (Field Marshal Earl Alexander) did not know in advance that the United Nations command planned to bomb North Korea’s vital hydroelectric power…

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Soldier Turned Up After His Burial Service

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 3

MILWAUKEE: Police have reopened their investigation, into the case of the corpse that bad a double…

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War Service Land Settlement Outstanding Success In N.S.W.

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 1

War service land settlement will have to be further drastically curtailed in the 1952/53 financial year if expenditure of loan funds is to be kept within the £2 million so far made…

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Soldier’s Wife Was Bandit Queen

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 5

MANILA: The 26-years-estranged wife of a Filipino soldier now fighting with United Nations forces…

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War Service Settlement

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: State Cabinet has approved the Requisition for war service land settlement of six promotion estates at prices…

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Senator’s Fears of Prisoner’s Massacre Reds Fail To Account For Captured Soldiers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 July 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON. Fears were voiced in the United States Senate yesterday that thousands of missing United Nations troops in Korea may have been killed by the Communists in a Far Eastern version of the…

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United States’ Big Part in Korean War Truman Says Cannot Win Peace Alone

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 July 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON: The United States was concerned of the “limited” participation of other United Nations in Korea, President Truman declared yesterday…

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Horses of War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1952 · page 1

It is estimated that 958,600 horses and mules were killed in the first world war. The most famous war-horse…

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Cold War Over Bathing Costumes

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 July 1952 · page 6

BREGENZ (Austria): A small “cold war” has started in the Vorarlberg province of Austria between an unknown…

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Enlistment Figures for Permanent Defence Forces. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 July 1952 · page 3

"Enlistments for the Permanent Forces last week were 325," Mr. P. J. Hynard, the Acting Deputy-Director…

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Soldier Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 July 1952 · page 3

BROKEN HILL: A 23-years-old soldier had made a written statement in which he said he had been with en attractive…

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New Power for War on Pests Progress In Battle Against Insects

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 July 1952 · page 4

PARIS: There is no scientific mystery left in such great insect-borne diseases as malaria and typhus. We know how to eliminate them for we know how to control the insects that transmit the parasites…

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Withdrawal Would Be Fatal Britain and the Korean War London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 2

Britain's withdrawal from the Korean War now would be fatal to British interests, Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons…

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Maitlander Wounded In Korea

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 1

Private E. Kembrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Kembrey, of Grets-street, Telarah, has been wounded in-action in Korea…

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Soldier Settlement at Goonoo Goonoo

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 4

Twenty-four new soldier settlement farms in two ballot estates will be open for application from July 14, the Minister for…

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Totally Disabled Soldiers Assn. Public Meeting at Cessnock

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

For the purpose of extending the work and arousing more general interest in the Totally and Permanently Disabled…

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Soldier Settlement

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 2

Twenty-four new soldier settlement farms in two ballot Estates will be open for application on July 14, the…

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