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The wars & local soldiers, 1954

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Soldier Settlement Scheme Outstanding Results

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 10

Twenty-one soldier settlers are being established in the Tumbarumba district by the Department of Lands on…

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Cattle Seen Grazing in War Cemetery

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1954 · page 1

Aldermen at last Tuesday night's meeting of Dungog Municipal Council expressed disgust with persons who…

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Soldier Settlers Make Progress Land Being Developed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 4

Twenty-one soldier settlers are being established in the Tumbarumba district by the Department of Lands on 5960 acres of land that, five years ago, carried only two people…

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Soldiers' Memorial Club

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 4

The annual general meeting of the Dungog Soldiers' Memorial Club will be held in the Club roms On Friday, 30th…

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Big Soldier Settlement Scheme 10,000 Aches of Collaroy to Be Made Available

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 5

The State Government will purchase 10,000 acres of the Collaroy Estate, Merriwa, for soldier settlement…

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Teacher Wounded at Bungwahl

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1954 · page 1

Clarence John O'Connell, 38, schoolteacher, of Bungwahl, near Bulahdelah, accidentally shot himself with a 22 calibre…

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Big Welcome Home at Merriwa Trial Competitors Return

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 5

The two Merriwa teams in the recent reliability trial, Messrs. George Scales and Harry Cape, and Albert…

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War Sooner Than Later, Says Rhee

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: President Syngman Rhee, of South Korea, whose plea for an immediate all out war against…

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Death Of Boer War Veteran

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 2

GOSFORD: Mr. Ernest George Foster, 82, a Boer War veteran, died yesterday after long illness…

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Portuguese Area Is in State of Siege On War Footing Against Indian Demonstrators

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 1

NEW DELHI: Goa, the chief Portuguese settlement in India, was reported by All-India radio last night to be in a state of siege. Indian newspapers said the Portuguese…

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Istanbul’s Taxi War With City Police

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1954 · page 6

ISTANBUL: A little war is being waged in Istanbul between taxi drivers and police. The drivers say that they ere being persecuted. The police say that many drivers are flouting regulations and…

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Wounded Constable Held Gunman

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 1

TOWNSVILLE: Seriously wounded in the stomach and the side, air unarmed constable grappled with a gunman in…

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Eisenhower Dismisses As Completely Unthinkable the Suggestion of a “Preventive War” Against Communists Will Not Agree To Severing Diplomatic Relations With Soviet Russia

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON: President Dwight Eisenhower yesterday dismissed at ridiculous, completely unthinkable and impossible the idea of a “preventive war” against the Communist powers. He also raid in relation to the possibility of a general war that if the free world built up intelligently a structure realty impervious to Communist assault, there would be no war…

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Advocate’s Story Of Nazi War Crimes

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 3

LONDON: A story of how 12 million men, women and children were butchered to death by the Germans during World War II is told in the book “The Scourge of the Swastika,” publication of which…

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Russia Will Be Ready For War If Time Comes

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 1

LONDON: Russian Defence Minister, Marshal Bulganin, drank a toast “against war and for peace” with Western envoys in Moscow last night Bulganin and the envoys…

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Migrant wounded in thigh

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 8

A migrant, Arthur Robert Aybak 39. was shot in the right thigh at Greta Migrant Centre about 10.20 last night…

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Migrant Wounded at Greta

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 5

Arthur Robert Aybak, 39, a migrant, was shot In the right thigh at Greta Migrant Centre at about 10.20 o'clock…

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Sacked Over War Book

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 August 1954 · page 1

Lord Russell 59, the Army’s Assistant Judge Advocate-General, has been forced to [?]…

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Fears of Full Scale Gang War

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 August 1954 · page 1

CHICAGO: Authorities [?]red yesterday that the killing of two ex-Capone mobsters in three days marked the start…

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War Against Grasshoppers New Equipment Now Available Demonstration at Singleton

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 August 1954 · page 1

The latest equipment for the eradication of grasshoppers was demonstrated at a field day held at Singleton. The demonstration was held to educate farmers and others how they could consolidate their resources to combat the expected…

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