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The wars & local soldiers, 1954

614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 31

West to Plan for Possible A-war

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 1

PARIS, Dec. 17. A.A.P.—The Atlantic Pact Council to-day authorised the European Command to go ahead with the provisional plans for the possible use of atomic weapons in any new war, conference sources said…

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Atomic War If Soviet Aggressive

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 1

PARIS, Dec. 19. A.A.P.—Swift retaliation with atomic weapons would follow any Soviet attack on the West. The question of political veto would not arise…

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Drug War Grips U.S. City

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 16

VANCOUVER, Monday (O.S.R.).—War between overlords of the West Coast's multi-million…

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Gaoled Airmen Issue War Danger In "Blackmail"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. A.A.P.—The United States would invite another world war if it paid blackmail to free 11 American airmen imprisoned in…

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Wounded Girl Then Suicided

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (AAP)—Farmhand Kenneth Brewster, 27, shot his girl friend in the kitchen of…

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Japan To Collect War Dead

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 3

TOKYO, Dec. 22. A.A.P.-Reuter. —The Japanese Welfare Ministry decided tentatively to-day to send the…

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Names Sought For Honour Roll

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 7

Only about 50 names of men who enlisted from Maitland in World War II have been submitted to Maitland…

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Delay on War Reparations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. A.A.P. — The unsettled Japanese political situation might cause a substantial delay in the resumption of formal negotiations between Japan and the…

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Help By War Bride In Fishing Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—A Japanese war bride assisted Mackay police to-day by translating writing on a bamboo…

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10 Soldiers Missing Plane in River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 1

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23. A.A.P.—A chartered airliner, carrying 23 soldiers to the west coast for Christmas demobilisation, plunged, with its crew of five, into…

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Youth Wounded In Shooting Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 3

NOWRA.—Seventeen-year-old Bruce Peter Punks, of Arncliffe, was admitted to hospital…

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Minister's Visit To War Graves

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Kent Hughes) will visit Australian war graves in the Pacific and South-East Asian areas early next year…

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Laboratory For U.S. Soldiers

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 8

FRANKFURT.—The University of Maryland has opened the first chemistry laboratory for…

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N. Zealand's War On Greedy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1954 · page 5

WELLINGTON, Dec. 30. A.A.P.-Reuter. The Prime Minister's (Mr. Holland) New Year message to the nation…

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