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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

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Land Near Holbrook for Soldier Settlement

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Minister for Lands (Mr Sheahan) has made available for application by members and ex members…

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Real Jap. War Criminals Escaped [?]unishment” [?] Egation Made by [?]Okio Newspaper Court To Hear [?]demned Men's Appeals WASHINGTON

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 December 1948 · page 3

[?]LOWING the announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court, by a majority of [?]tes to four, today decided to hear on [?]er 16 oral arguments on the appeals…

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News and Notes Portion of Kooba for Soldier Settlement

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 3

The "Area News," Griffith, underestands that an announcement regarding the use of 7,000 acres of Kooba station for soldier settlement…

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“N.S.W. Leads In Soldier Land Settlement”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed; “NSW leads all other States in the number of farms so far provided under the war service land settlement…

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New Appeal for Donation for War Memorial Hall

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 1

A meeting of Henty War Memorial Hall Committee on Monday night received a report from a subcommittee appointed to go into ways and means of raising money for the erection of a hall…

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Voting in War Crimes Trial Revealed by One Judge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 10

TOKlO, Thurs. : One of the judges who presided at the trials of the Japanese war criminals today revealed that Kido,…

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“Entitled to Soldier Settlement Block”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Government was recreant to its trust in introducing legislation to dispossess Mr C. L. S. Falkiner of…

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[?] Held : Man Wounded

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 December 1948 · page 3

[?]DNEY, Fri.: Detectives [?] the wounding of a man [?] was found unconscious [?] at Ryde and is still…

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War Pensioner Remanded

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 December 1948 · page 14

On a charge of having been at the Carlton Hotel on November 20 for the purpose of betting, Henry Leonard Moorhouse, 53,…

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Street Shooting Man Wounded; Arrest Made

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun: A 24-year-old man was wounded by several shots fired from a revolver outside the Newmarket Hotel,…

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War Books to Be Revised

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Monday. — Allen [?] measures to protect Australia’s Internal security from [?] action or civil…

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War Orphans for Adoption Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 1

A NEW centre would be established at North Sydney to house European war orphans who, after…

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Mr. Sheahan's Poverty Test for Soldiers

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 3

It is probable that nothing more vindictive in the way of discriminating legislation has ever been before the State Parliament than the Lands…

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Man’s Accusations From Grave Ex-Soldier Alleges Attack In Asylum SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 3

AN alleged statement by a former ex-servicemen patient at [?] Park read at his inquest to-day accused two attendants of having attacked him 10 days before his death…

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“War Fever on Wane”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Tues.: Disputes between the great powers was today blamed by the president of the UN Assembly…

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War Criminal Given Leave

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Tues.: Field-Marshal Kesselring, former German war-time commander in Italy, who is serving a life…

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Controls Back If War Comes

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tues. : No attempt would be made to [?] manpower control, job direction and censorship unless…

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Expects War with Dutch Indonesia Backed by India

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Tues. : The Indonesian Minister [?] today disclosed that his Government [?]…

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Items of News [?] Ex-soldiers Seek Land

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 2

Ballot for three blocks of land [?] “Tom’s Park” and on Woomargama Est[?]te will be held at Albury to-day under the Soldier…

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[?]Ster on Validity of [?]War-time Controls

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 December 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.: It could [?] be argued that as the re[?] of a High Court ruling yesterday all the few…

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