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The wars & local soldiers, 1950

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“Accidentally Wounded Attacker” Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 15

In his defence against a shooting charge a 20-years old salesman told a General Sessions jury today that he had accidentally wounded an attacker when he glanced over his shoulder at a “St. Kilda mob”…

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Brilliant War Record Gets Man Bond

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 6

An ex-serviceman with 10 years’ war service, including the Malayan campaign, during which he spent three years as a prisoner…

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First D.S.C. in Korean War

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 3

TOKIO, Wed.: An American colonel killed when attacking an enemy tank single handed has won the first Distinguished…

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And File Union Reaction to Korean War Ban Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 1

Rank and file seamen and miners are beginning to react against moves by their Communist union leaders to oppose the Korean war. Over 100 Sydney seamen today signed a petition requesting a…

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War [?] Appeal Business Men Will Raise £500

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 9

Albury Chamber of Commerce last night pledged itself to raise £500 for the World War II Memorial appeal. The…

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Ex-service- Men’s Leader Arrested; Anti- War Outburst

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 18

BRISBANE, Thurs.: Police today arrested the State Secretary of the Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women (Mr…

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War Fears in Turkey

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Fri.: The U.S. Consul-General in Istanbul, Turkey, has issued instructions to the staff and members of the American colony…

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Churches Support War Against Korea

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 38

TORONTO, Fri.: The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches last night endorsed the United Nations intervention in…

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Govt. Accepts Challenge of Reds on War Supplies Ban Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 1

The Commonwealth Government announced to-night that it would prosecute any person responsible for banning the export of war supplies to Australian servicemen abroad. The Government will act under section 24D of the Crimes Act…

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Nehru Appeals to Stalin in Move to End Korean War London

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 3

The Indian Prime Minister (Mr. Pandit Nehru) has sent a personal message to Marshal Stalin in a move interpreted by London observers as an attempt to secure an early settlement of the Korean fighting. The emssage was handed…

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Chiang Starts War with Burma

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 1

RANGOON, Sun.: Fighting is continuing between Burmese troops and Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese Nationalists…

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U.s. ’Pushes Toward Open War’

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 2

Mr Andreoi Gromyko, the senior Deputy Foreign Minister, said recently that the U.S. Government was…

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Mr. Chifley’s Views on the Korean War

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: Mr. Chifley said today that be did not believe fighting in Korea would lead to a Third World War. He did not deceive himself that South Korea and North Korea might provide “a very difficult international situation.”…

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N.S.W. Labor Says Soviet Started Korean War Motion Condemning Reds Is Carried Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 3

There were only a few dissentient's to a Labor Party resolution today branding Soviet Russia as the instigator of the Korean War. The resolution, moved by the State president (Mr. J. Ferguson), viewed with “considerable alarm the outbreak of war in Korea and…

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Wounded Mathoura Boy’s Condition Unchanged

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 1

Plasma Rushed Here from Two Cities THE condition of the 15-year-old Mathoura boy, William Arthur Dolan, who was accidentally shot [?]hrough the stomach during a rabbiting expedition on…

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Nerve War Continues

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 7

LONDON, Mon.: Reuters’ listening station last night reported that the Eastern European Communist countries over the…

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“Six to Nine Months War”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Mon.: American troops faced six to nine months of fighting in Korea, even if Russia did not reinforce…

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Allege War Crimes Against Americans

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Mon.: A report from the New China News Agency mentioned in Frankfurt last night, claimed that the Communist North…

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Dollars for Development Lessons Of-korean War

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 4

"The Communist invasion of South Kores throws a gauntlets at Australia's feet" says the bulletin of the Federal Parliamentary Country…

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Rabbit Control Authority Minister Announces Rabbit War

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 2

WITH Rabbits assuming plague proportions in most areas of the State, and becoming an actual menace in some parts, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. R. Graham) has opened an eradication campaign…

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