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The wars & local soldiers, 1954

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Airmen, Soldiers to Return Together

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 October 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The R.A.A.F. contingent in Korea, scheduled to return to Australia this year, would come back on…

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Butter and Cheese War

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 October 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.: New .Zealand, Danish and Australian butter and cheese producers today enter a new phase of a…

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Co-ordinating Body Formed for War Memorial Centre

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 October 1954 · page 2

A group of interested townspeople met last Friday to form a committee to organise such work that is necessary to make the War…

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Scouts’ war against mosquitoes to get under way next weekend

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 10

Albury Scouts’ campaign to rid the city of mosquitoes during the coming summer will get under way this coming weekend. This first stage of “Operation Mosquito“ will…

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Welcome Home for New World Title Holder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 October 1954 · page 8

Robert Coben, bantam weight champion of the world, being chaired by admirers on his arrival at Orly…

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Man and Woman Wounded

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: A woman ran screaming from Enmore Public School today with blood pouring from bullet wounds in…

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War-time hero dies

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 6

LONDON, Thurs.: Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill, “the man who won the battle of the flying bombs” in World War H, collapsed…

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Rural Production Too Profitable, Is Claim Incomes now 12 times pre-war level, counsel fells court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: It might not be o bad thing to make rural production less profitable so that people would be driven to more intense cultivation to maintain rural holdings, Mr, R. M…

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“Butcher of Paris“ to die for war crimes

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 8

PARIS, Sun.: S.S. General Karl Oberg, Supreme Gernmand Police Chief in France during World War II, who become known as the “Butcher of Poris,”was sentenced to death yesterday for war crimes…

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Ex-soldiers told to keep out of politics

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 16

LIMBURG (West Germany), Mon.: General Hasso Von Manteuffel, now a member of the West German Lower House, told…

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Casey Talks on Jap War Criminals

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 11

WASHINGTON, Tues.: Urgent consideration was being given in Washington to the politically explosive question of parole of…

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Labor’s Civil War

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 2

THE all-in scrap that has developed in the Labor Party is a matter of first class interest to all the…

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Soldier given bond on stealing charges

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed.: An Army warrant officer, who had stolen Army money to send his wife on a holiday, was convicted in…

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Wounded gunman eludes the police drag net

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 24

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Sydney’s elusive gunman continues to evade the biggest police dragnet in the city’s history tonight. The gunman, now known to have a bullet wound in the right shoulder, slipped through a heavy police cordon at Maroubra about 8.30 tonight…

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War Service Blocks

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2

Applications for seventeen war service land settlement grazing blocks in the Western Division close in Sydney on October 22…

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Hay War Memorial High School's Visit to Leeton

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2

On Friday last, the 8th October, teams from the Hay War Memorial High School, visited Leeton High School to contest…

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36,000 Acres of Land for Soldier Settlers

The Observer · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 6

Nearly 36,000 acres of land for soldier settlement ballots will be taken over shortly from five country properties by…

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Returned Soldiers' Meeting

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 1

The monthly meeting of the Corowa sub-branch of the R.S.L. was held at the club rooms on Monday night. Mr…

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Nurse to Die for War Crimes

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 1

SEOUL, Sun.: A 24-year-old nurse, a former North Korean lieutenant-general, and another man, who were guerrillas in…

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Four on way to visit war cemetery

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Four relatives of Australian war dead left Kingsford-Smith airport last night for North Africa to attend the…

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