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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

641 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 33

Soviet 'War' On Western Science, Styles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Dec. 31. A.A.P.—Sergei Vavilov, President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said that Soviet scientists intended to…

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1948 Brought Crises But Not War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

WE ARE one year farther from war. Let no one make any mistake about the results of 1948; it has brought us disappointments enough, and crises, and heart-searchings, and a definite…

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Found War Fears In Five Continents

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

COPENHAGEN, Sat. (O.S.R.): Most people in the world fear the outbreak of a third world war within the next two or three years, according to Mr. Poul Westphall; Danish journalist and author, who has just…

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Atom War Could "End In Month"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

If war ever again breaks upon the world, the United States Air Force, equipped with atom-bombs to be dropped from planes capable of flying thousands of miles, could finish it within a month by…

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World Danger Year For War 1955

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

Europe to-day is full of knife-edge predicaments, cold and sharp as the ice along the Vistula. It is loud with questions, plaintive and endless as a bread queue in Paris. In recent weeks I have sought an answer to some of these questions in a…

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Dutch to Pay £8½m. War Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government will accept £8,500,000 from the Dutch Government in settlement of war…

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Soldier Loses Rank In Documents Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Dec. 31. A.A.P.—In closed Court at Chelsea Barracks, Sergeant Donald Watt, 37, of the Intelligence Corps, was sentenced…

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Risk Of U.K. War With Israel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Bevin) has warned the United States Government of the danger of war between…

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Soldier Broke Movie Rules

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 4

HOLLYWOOD— Virginia Mayo and Gordon MacRae journeyed with technicians to a war veterans hospital in northern…

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"There are no strident headlines; no bitter political arguments in Norway," says Douglas Wilkie, in his second article of the series, Report on Europe. Norway: Window on the Cold War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

OSLO.—In newsreel theatres in Norway the programmes are divided into five equal parts. One part deals with Norwegian news. The other four parts are composed of a revue of world events as seen by the Big Four…

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Woman Wounded With Knife, Court Is Told

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 1

A 61-year-old pensioner, Joseph Mark Eather, who was charged with having unlawfully assaulted a young woman at…

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Jews See War Trend In U.K. Attitude

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—The British Government appeared to be manoeuvring toward turning its "sulky boycott" of the Jewish…

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Soldiers Visit Beach

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

J. Still, of Kalgoorile, Western Australia, and R. B. Saunders, of Launceston, Tasmania, who are stationed at Greta camp, and Miss Eileen O'Connor, of Sydney, on Newcastle Beach yesterday…

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No Information On New 'Moons' For War Bases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Federal Government had no information from America on the establishment of a space base for…

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Gaol For Man Who Wounded His Wife

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: A man who got drunk on his birthday and wounded his wife was sent to gaol by Mr. Thornton, S.M., in North Sydney Court today despite an effort by his wife that he be let free on a good…

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War Losses of Ships Replaced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

British shipping statistics show that Britain's losses in the last war will have been replaced when present orders have been completed…

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Gaol for Man Who Wounded Wife

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—Clyde Alexander Smith, 46, painter, was sentenced to 14 days' gaol, in North Sydney Court, for having wounded…

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SUBURBIA—This Week Cathedral Treasures Revalued By A War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 5

At some time during the recent war, a bomb smashed through the roof of All Hallows' Church at Barking-by-the-Tower (the Tower of London). TWELVE THOUSAND miles…

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Refugee Enlists To Join Girl In Germany "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—A man whose fiancee once tried to join him in the United States by having herself shipped in a crate on…

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Scientist's Part in War

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P).— The danger to human life presented by the atom bomb and bacteriological warfare might cause a powerful antiscientific movement to arise, said Bertrand Russell, scientist and philosopher, in a…

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