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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

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Soldier Settlement Blocks

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 1

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) announced on. Thursday that he has approved of 5 farms on “Burrumbuttock”…

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Man Wounded by Police Bullets

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.: A man disturbed when attempting to break into the Brighton railway station, was captured by police…

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Pact Countries’ War Plans

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 3

PARIS, Tues. : Overall plans for the 12 Atlantic Pact countries to be pat on an immediate war footing in the event…

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"U.s. Aid to Prevent War"

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 16

NEW YORK, Tues.: The hope that military aid from the United States to Western Eur-ope "will start soon and will…

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Reds Attacking Labor Leaders; See War Threat Growing Paris

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 6

A MOTION stressing that “the threat of war increases more and more,” and that the fight for “enlarging the peace movement must be intensified by unifying the working classes,” was the main resolution to emerge from a meeting of the Cominform during “the second half of September.”…

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Blueprint for Next Round of Cold War

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Wed.: Observers believe that the Secret Cominform meeting in Buda Pest and the Peiping- session of the Communist…

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“Soviet Will Not War on Tito”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 December 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Friday Back in Paris from the recent Cominform meeting in Budapest, France’s No. 2 Communist, M…

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Asian Reds Declare “War” on Imperialists

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 December 1949 · page 3

HONG KONG, Fri.: A determination to “put an end to the system of colonies, protectorates and dependant territories regarded…

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War on Dingoes in Victoria

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 December 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, San.: The State Government was employing: 23 professional “doggers” to exterminate dingoes in dingo-infested…

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Talk of Holy War in Czechoslovakia

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 December 1949 · page 14

PRAGUE, Sun.: The Czech. Government alone would be to blame if a holy war broke out as a result of attempts to enforce…

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Hay War Memorial High School P. & C. Association

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 5

The final monthly committee meeting of the year was held on Thursday, 1st December, and was presided over by the president, Mr. C. H. Woodman…

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1355 Soldier Settler Splaced on Farms

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 16

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said yesterday over 700 farms in the eastern and central divisions of the State…

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Albury Man Wounded

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 1

An Albury man was admitted to Albury Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a bullet wound in the…

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U.s. War Chiefs Visiting Singapore

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 18

SINGAPORE, Fri.: . Two of America's Far East service chiefs are due to arrive at Singapore on Monday for discussions with…

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War Memorial

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 December 1949 · page 2

The Hay War Memorial Committee met last week, as briefly reported in our last issue. The president. Mr. J. P. Flood, briefly welcomed the new…

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Wounded Man’s Strange Story

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 1

DUBBO, Thursday : Found about 9.45 p.m. yesterday by police under a briar bush on a vacant allotment in Dubbo…

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War Veteran Dies on Blazing Balcony

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 3

Mr. Stanley Weber (55). a World War I veteran, was burned to death at his home at 15 Parriwl road, Mosman, last Thursday night Mr. Weber…

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“War with Russia Will Last 10 Years”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thurs. : Dr. Harold Urey, who helped to develop the atomic bomb, said last night that a…

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Forecasts Civil War in N.e.l

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Outbreak of a civil war in the Netherlands East Indies is anticipated by many residents, and hundreds of Dutch…

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Hay War Memorial High School Speech Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 5

The Assembly Hall of the Hay War Memorial High School was crowded on Monday for the annual speech night. Many of the…

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