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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

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Celestial War Base Experiments Soon

Northern Star · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

NEW YORK, Friday (AAP).—First experiments aimed at placing a space station beyond the active attraction of the earth's gravity are expected to be carried out in the United States early in 1949…

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U.n. Seen As War Obstacle

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

BELGRADE, Friday: The Foreign Minister, Mr. Kardel[?], in the budget debate, reaffirmed Yugoslav support for U.N.O…

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Dutch to Pay £8½ M. for War Materials

Northern Star · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government has agreed to accept £8,500,000 from the Dutch Government in settlement for war…

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Doubts on Dutch War Debt

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Sunday: The Australian arid Dutch Governments had not yet decided whether the Dutch should pay their £8,500,000…

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Britain Wanrs of War Risk with Israel

Northern Star · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—The British Foreign Minister (Mr. Ernest Bevin) has warned the United States Government of the danger of war between Britain and Israel if I[?]ish forces continue the present policy of breaking the Palestine truce by penetrating Egyptian territory…

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Warning on U.K. War Against Israel

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday: The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Ernest Bevin, has warned the U.S. Government of the danger of war between Britain and Israel if the Jewish forces continue their…

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Appeal for Land Suitable for Soldier Settlement

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 4

An appeal to landowners to make suitable property available for the settlement of returned soldiers was made by the Far North Coast Councillor for the R S.L. (Mr. L. C. Harris) in Lismore…

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Police Wounded in Strike Riots

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 3

ROME, Wednesday: Six hundred rioting farm workers attacked the homes of big landowners at Regusa (Sicily)…

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Air "Fare Cutting War"

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: The British Overseas Air Corporation is protesting to the International Air…

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Hanging of Japanese War Criminals

Northern Star · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 6

Sir,—Replying to "Believer In Justice's" defence of the murder [?] Tojo and Japanese leaders, I assure him I abhor crueity as much as…

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More Than £5000 for War Memorials

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 5

LONDON.--Sir Stafford Cripps has changed his mind and given permission to wartime British Army divisions to send more…

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Most British War Disabled Now Employed

Northern Star · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 7

The majority of those ex-servicemen and civilians disabled in the war are now fully employed. A report just issued by the British…

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Bangkok Today Recalls War-time Lisbon Life

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 6

BANGKOK. -- This sprawling city of canals and Buddhist temples, wide, modern avenues, and mean little alleys, today recalls wartime Lisbon not in physical appearance, but by the…

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Bishop Storrs Returns Lessons of War In Rubble Of German Cities

Northern Star · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 4

GRAFTON, Wednesday.—The shattered rubble of the great German cities of Hamburg, Essen, Dusseldorf and Cologne was a terrible commentary on war and the nemesis which aggression brought to…

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War And Art

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

"A spiritually shattering experience such as a major war, a world war, is apt to rob the youthful mind of the belief in established values…

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Lands Minister to Visit Kyogle on North Coast Visit. R.s.l Councillor Makes Strong Appeal for Land for Soldier Settlement

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

In announcing the visit of the N.S.W. Minister for Lands (Mr. W. F. Sheahan) to North Coast towns, the Far North Coast Councillor of the R.S.L. (Mr. L. C. Harris) has made an appeal to landholders to make suitable property available for the settlement of returned soldiers…

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New Offensive Opened by Reds in China War

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 1

NANKING, Friday: Following a 20-day lull on the North Anhwei front, the Communist armies on Wednesday began their expected offensive against the Nationalist forces…

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The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. Saturday, January 8, 1949. Patriotism Won't Settle Soldiers

Northern Star · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 4

THERE [?] no one on the whole of the Far North Coast who is not genuinely sympathetic with the…

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Didn't Know War Was Over

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

TOKIO, Sunday: The United States Army announced today that two clean, wellfeu Japanese…

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Jap. Colony Believes in War Victory

Northern Star · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday (AAP). — A Tokio secret society known as "Shindo Remmei" has convinced practically the entire Japanese…

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