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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 71 of 71

Planning To Meet Atom War "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Dec. 26.—Britain and America are preparing exhaustive plans against the possibility of an atomic war…

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Long Occupation Needed to Stop New Jap War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Dec. 26.—Unless the Allied occupation of Japan goes on for at least two generations, the Japanese will…

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Nazi War Criminals Will Be Put to Breaking Stones

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 2

BERLIN, Thursday: Solitary confinement in the grim fortress prison of Spandau will soon be the fate of those…

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Real Soldier

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 2

VISCOUNT WAVELL, Viceroy and Governor-General of India since 1943, who has just returned to India after talks in London on the India…

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Travel Concessions End For Soldiers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY. — All concessions granted by the Commissioner for Railways to men in uniform will cease at the and of this month…

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Clerks of Wyong, Gosford Shires Not Returned Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 December 1946 · page 4

GOSFORD, Friday.—Despite a challenge from Brisbane Water District Council of the Returned Soldiers League that legal action would…

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Scotland Yard Winning War on Crime

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 December 1946 · page 5

"I read nothing but detective stories now. You don't know any new good ones, do you?" The speaker was Somerset Maugham, master of the novel and the play, the scourger of society and denouncer of women, that sardonic artist…

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Gang War Breaks Out In West End

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 December 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday: Gang warfare has been declared in London's West End, where new gangs are believed to be…

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The Letter Box Soldier Is Critical

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 December 1946 · page 6

Think back seven years, and try to adjust the mind, to the type of life and environment which Australians once enjoyed. Henry…

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Young Ex-Soldier Lost All in Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. H. Kopp, a young ex-serviceman, lost nearly everything he possessed when the cottage in which he and his wife were…

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British Soldiers Court-martialled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 December 1946 · page 3

CAIRO, Dec. 30. A.A.P.—Three British Army N.C.O.'s, charged before a court-martial with conspiracy to cause mutiny, are alleged by the…

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