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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Soldier "Dead:" Army Error

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 12

LONDON. — Parents writing to their soldier son in Malaya had three letters returned marked…

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Apprentice Soldiers To Be Enrolled

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 8

OTTAWA, Tues. (A.A.P.) — The Canadian Army will be enrolling 16-year-old apprentice soldiers next…

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Anzac Dawn Service For Gregson Park

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 19

Hamilton R.S.L. Sub-branch is to inform the District Council that it would conduct its own Dawn Service in Gregson Park, on Anzac Day. It will be suggested that…

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Soviet War Output Reduced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. A.A.P.—"Substantial evidence" was available that Soviet war production was being slowed…

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Flats For War Widows Urged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 7

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—An appeal to have the War Service Homes Act amended to allow for the provision of…

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Allied Ban Slows Up Red War Production

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.): There is substanial evidence that Russian war production is being slowed by Allied trade restrictions…

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Soldier Wore Seven False Ribbons

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 8

Paul Sarran, 27, soldier, was fined £10 in Newcastle Court yesterday for having falsely represented himself to the…

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Possibility of World Oil War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Oct. 16. A.A.P.—An International "oil war," with a resultant collapse of prices of petroleum products, has become a distinct possibility, the…

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"War" On Oil Is U.S. Tip

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thurs. (O.S.R.): American experts are forecasting an oil "war" leading to the collapse of prices of petroleum products. They say that the…

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Peru Has U.n. Plan to End War in Korea

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): Peru today proposed to the U.N. General Assembly an alternative plan for solving the Korean truce The proposal is that…

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Anzac Day Dawn Service In City

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 20

Newcastle District Council of the R.S.L. last night decided to continue to hold the district's main Anzac dawn service in Civic ark and to arrange the service itself. A…

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Korea War Gets U.N. Priority

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.): The United Nations' Political Committee decided today…

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Aust. Soldiers Decorated

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 3

CANBERRA: — Awards and decorations to members of the Australian Army for services in Korea…

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Exclude War Pensions From Means Test

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 9

Waratah - Mayfield R.S. L. wants its Federal Congress to make representations for the exclusion of…

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Ian Healy's Suburbia, This Week War Stopped While He Went Skating

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1952 · page 5

Sixty-four-year-old Edmund Corthesy must be the only man in history who has held up a war by going skating in No Man's Land. He claims to have done…

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Offensive 'Best' In Air War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Close fighter defence was not enough now, Air Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson said…

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U.S. Soldier On Charges Of Treason

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Oct. 27. A.A.P.—John David Provo[?]. a former United States Army staff sergeant in the Pacific…

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War Criminals Released

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1952 · page 1

TOKYO, Oct. 28. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The paroling of two Japanese war criminals has been approved by the United…

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Anzac Day Change Opposed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1952 · page 3

PERTH, Wednesday.—"Hands off Anzac Day" was the unanimous opinion of the Federal R.S.L. Congress…

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Soldiers Guard Africans

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1952 · page 3

NAIROBI, Oct. 29. A.A.P.—Heavily armed reserves of troops and police have been rushed to all Kikuyu tribal…

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