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The wars & local soldiers, 1954

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Both Sides Are “Winning” War in Guatemala Complete Confusion In Reports Of Fighting

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: Guatemala’s anti-Communist invaders claimed in a broadcast last night that they were moving on Guatemala City, the capital from three directions…

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Indo-china War : French Forces Leave Big Area to Communists All Troops Being Evacuated, Defences Destroyed

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 1

HANOI: The French high command Has ordered the evacuation of Nam Dinh province, 43 miles south of Hanoi—a move which will give the Communist the third biggest city in Indo-China’s red River delta…

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Today’s Leader A Poignant Plea Indo-china War : Actual Procedure of Cease Fire Is Being at Conference Rebel Forces Massing For Attack On Hanoi

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1954 · page 1

HANOI: Indo-China truce negotiations at Trung Gia are reported to have taken up the actual procedure of ordering end carrying cut a cease-fire in the seven-years-old war, now in a crucial stage. Meantime, about 70,000 crack Viatminh Communism troops are massed only…

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To-day’s Leader The Margins Indo-china War: Will Continue War If Peace Conference Fails Legislation To Send Conscripts

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 July 1954 · page 1

PARIS: French Prime Minister, Pierre Mendes-France said lost night that France will pursue the war Indo-China with all the military means at her disposal if the Geneva cease-fire negotiations are not…

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Methodist Church to Be Opened at Soldiers' Point

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 July 1954 · page 5

The growth of Soldiers' Point will be reflected in a very important function to be held at…

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Economic Security For S.-E. Asia New Means to Win "Cold War" in Pacific Washington

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 1

Australia, New Zealand and the United States to-day will launch an informal exchange of views on requirements for a…

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Surgery And War

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

THERE is no sense in burning down the house to roast a pig, but once the place is in ashes there is no reason why the pork should not be enjoyed. The thought applies to the odd angles where…

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Nehru Said World Was Near Atomic War

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 1

ALLAHABAD: The world would face near annihilation through full-scale atom and hydrogen bomb warfare if the…

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To-day’s Leader Surgery and War New Moves by Britain to Settle Canal Zone Dispute

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 1

CAIRO: The Egyptian Prime Minister (Colonel Gamal Abdeh Nasser) conferred with the advisers for four and a half hours yesterday on Britain’s new plan for settling the canal zone dispute. The British plan was handed over last night by Sir Ralph Stevenson, British…

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Land For Soldier Settlement

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY: N.S.W. Cabinet has approved the purchase of two properties for war service land settlement at a total cost…

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Australia Not Committed To War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1954 · page 4

CANBERRA: Mr. Menzies said Australia was not committed to war in South-East Asia…

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New Methodist Church Opened at Soldiers' Point

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1954 · page 2

The opening and dedication of the new Methodist Church at Soldiers' Point took place on…

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More Land for Ex-soldiers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 4

State Cabinet on Tuesday approved the purchase of two properties for war service land settlement at a…

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French Soldiers Missing After Ambush Tunisia

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 1

A French officer, two Foreign Legion N.C.O's and a trooper were reported missing yesterday…

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“War” Against Bodgie Cult

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 July 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE: Detectives and uniform police here are waging a new campaign against the city's bodgie and…

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To-day’s Leader F.A.Q. Not Good Enough Rebel Forces Are Slipping Through Hanoi's Defences Critical Stages Of War Being Reached

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 July 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: Rebel forces seeping through the outlying defences of Hanoi, Indo-China, have seized stretch of the main highway running 25 miles northwest of Vinh Yen…

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No "Hot" War in Korea Now

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 3

There is no "hot" war in Korea now. When Meteors of No. 77 Squadron shoot across Korean skies it is in…

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“Peace Is Assured” After Eight Years of War in Indo-china French Premier Meets His “Peace Or Quit” Deadline At Geneva

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

GENEVA: Full agreement was reached here early to-day on a complete Indo-China peace settlement, thus bringing in sight a speedy close to the bitter hostilities in the war-torn Associated States where the guns of the rival French Union and Vietminh Communist forces were still rambling at a late hour last…

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Soldier Seeks Custody Of Child In Japan

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 3

A West Wallsend miner who, as a spider in Japan, married a Japanese girl, started proceedings to obtain…

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War Service Homes Built

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 5

CANBERRA: The number of war service [?] Australia in [?] the record number of [?]…

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