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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Current Jopics... Wounded When Axe Slipped

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 2

When an axe he was using on Tuesday, slipped, Clifford John Wand, of Bowman, received a laceration to his right knee. The…

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City Press at War

Macleay Argus · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 7

Sydney's Press War, though you might not know it, is well under way, says H. A. McC. in "City Notes." The only outward sign of the bubbling…

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South Africa, Under Malan— May Be Close to Civil War

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 3

South Africa, under the leadership of Prime Minister Daniel Malan, is a tense and divided country, says a September Reader's Digest article…

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Legacy War Orphan's Appeal Day

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 3

Sellers of buttons are wanted in Gloucester for Legacy War Orphan's Day Appeal next Friday, September 5…

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Bigger War Orders Aid Japan

Macleay Argus · Monday 1 September 1952 · page 3

TOKYO.--A remarkable increase in United States war orders for Japan has salvaged Japan's falling economy and cast fresh doubts on the outlook for peace in Korea. SPECIAL procurement…

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Newspaper War Is Reaching New Height

Macleay Argus · Monday 1 September 1952 · page 4

The great newspaper war is reaching a new high in Melbourne, and exciting keen interest in Press circles all over Australia, says H. A. McC. in "City Notes."…

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Mr. B. P. Dawson Soldiers' Club Head

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 1

Mr. B. P. Dawson was on Friday night elected first, official president of the new Gloucester Soldiers' Club…

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Soldier May Forfeit W.S.L.S. Holding

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 4

The War Service Land Settlement Board, in Glen Innes last week, recommended that a district soldier settler, Jock…

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Armidale Has Puzzle Over War Memorial

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 3 September 1952 · page 1

The President of the Armidale sub-branch of the R.S.L. (Cr. W. B. Fooks) suggested at a public meeting last week that money collected in a Public War Memorial Fund appeal in 1946-47…

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New Taree R.s.l. Building As War Memorial

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 3 September 1952 · page 7

Taree R. S. L. Sub-Branch will seek to have its new building, under construction at the foot of Pulteney Street,…

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U.s. Belief in Prohibition of Germ War

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 5 September 1952 · page 4

The United States believes that prohibition of germ warfare must be an essential part of any broad and balanced disarmament programme. This position was out[?]ned to…

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New Governor-general Elizabethan Soldier

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 September 1952 · page 1

The appointment of Field Marshal Sir William Slim, C.B.E., K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., as Australia's new Governor-General is appropriate in this second Elizabethian age as he has been described…

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Vote for Jap War Criminals

Macleay Argus · Monday 8 September 1952 · page 6

War criminals in Tokio Sugamo Prison would be allowed to vote at the coming election, a Japanese newsagency…

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Soldier Settlement Doomed--rsl President

Macleay Argus · Monday 8 September 1952 · page 1

Cuts by the State Government in allocation of funds for soldier settlers would mean the end of War Service Land Settlement in N.S.W., said the State President of the R.S.L. (Mr. W. Yeo) at…

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Judge Tells Youth to Enlist

Macleay Argus · Monday 8 September 1952 · page 7

An 18-year-old youth was given a bond by Judge P. V. Storkey, V.C., at the Armidale Quarter Sessions on condition that he enlisted in the Armed Forces…

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Soldier Settler Cuts Criticised

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1952 · page 4

Cuts in advances to soldier settlers were criticised by the Northern N.S.W. Fanners' Union recently…

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Protest Against Grafton Show on Anzac Day

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 3

R.S.L. sub.-branches throughout the North Coast district council have lodged strong protests against the Grafton Show Committee…

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Soldiers' Rights

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 10 September 1952 · page 7

CANBERRA.--Employment rights for ex-servicemen from Korea and Malaya would be protected under…

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West Berlin Blockade Likely to Mean War

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 7

Another all-out Soviet. attempt to blockade West Berlin would very likely mean war. To this fairly unanimous view Washington correspondents of New York "Herald Tribune"…

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Holding of Shows on Anzac Day

Macleay Argus · Monday 22 September 1952 · page 1

GRAFTON Sunday.--At Coffs Harbour today, representatives of Agricultural Associations from Grafton,…

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