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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

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Honour Roll Unveiling at Urbenv1lle

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of Urbenville and District A.P.H. and I. Society, it was decided to co-operate with the Honour Roll…

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Anzac-u.s. Defence Alliance

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday (AAP).—The United States is considering a triangular defence alliance with…

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Live Mortar Bomb Removed From Soldier's Thigh

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 1

PARIS, Tuesday (AAP).—Rene Paries, a French soldier, has undergone an operation in Cholon field hospital in Indo-China for the…

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Nazi War Criminals to Be Executed

Northern Star · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP).—The United States Court of Appeals has refused to halt the scheduled execution in Germany of…

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Pay Remuneration for Govt. Enlistees

Northern Star · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Superannuation (War Service) Act, to cover the position of Government employees now enlisted and…

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U.S. Releases More War Criminals

Northern Star · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

HEIDELBERG, Sunday (AAP).— American authorities yesterday released three more war criminals from the Langsberg prison,…

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Realistic "War" Off N.S.W. Coast

Northern Star · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

From our correspondent aboard H.M.A.S. Sydney, flagship of the Commonwealth fleet at sea, Sunday.—"Operation Hostile" began off…

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Jap War Potential Will Be Re-established?

Northern Star · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—Japan's war potential will be re-established despite what objections are put forward by Australia, N.Z and the Philippines. The Sunday Times says this…

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Desecration of Soldiers' Gravestones Claimed

Northern Star · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 4

CASINO, Sunday.—Brisbane R.S.L. headquarters are to be asked to investigate charges that headstones taken from the graves of servicemen have been despatched to a Sydney factory…

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Letters To The Editor Need For War Gratuity Rise

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 February 1951 · page 8

Sir,—In my opinion, the reluctance of the Government to make the increase in the war gratuity is an insult to our ex-servicemen…

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Czarist Hero of World War I to Settle Here

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 1

DARWIN, Tuesday.—A Czarist officer who won the highest Russian decoration in World War 1, will settle in Australia to have "rest and…

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U.N. Casualties In Korean War Estimated at 51,900

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 5

LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday (AAP).—According to the latest figures available here, Australia, with about 1000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel in service, has a casualty list in Korea of 48 dead, 219 wounded,…

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Fighting War with Words

Northern Star · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 1

Amusing references to mother's apple sauce and stroking a wife's hair tend to weaken this, surrender message Issued by…

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War Council for Malaya

Northern Star · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).— The Colonial Secretary (Air Griffiths) replying to the Malayan debate in the House of Commons,…

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Execution of War Criminals Delayed

Northern Star · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).—The State Department has ordered the execution of seven German war criminals to be…

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18,150 Acres for Soldier Farms

Northern Star · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 8

[?] 18,150 acres of Goonoo Goonoo station in the Tamworth district is to be purchased for soldier settlement under an…

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Unform Charge For Ballina Anzac Dinner

Northern Star · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 4

BALLINA, Friday.—All ex-Servicemen and visitors who attend the Anzac dinner at Ballina will each have to pay the same admission fee,…

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Increase in War Gratuity Payments To be Sought

Northern Star · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 4

A public meeting held last night in the Lismore Couircil Chambers resolved to send a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), asking that war gratuity payments to ex-service personnel be increased…

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Three Year Time Limit to Prepare for War Time May Be Shorter Warns Menzies

Northern Star · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government has set a time limit of three years in which to prepare the nation for possible war with Communist forces. The new three year defence programme was…

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No Early War Decause "U.s. Atom Bombs Could Destroy Russian Military Effort"

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 March 1951 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Monday (AAP).—The United States' foremost scientists asserted last night that, if Moscow began a war in Europe now, American atom bombs could destroy the Russian military effort…

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