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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

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War on Rabbits By Three P. P. Boards in South

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 4

A joint meeting of executive officer of Condobolin, Narrandara and Wagga Pastures Protectton Boards at West Wyalong decided to launch a sik months' campaign to eradicate rabbits. Rabbit inspectors of the three boards will meet on their boundaries, map…

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"No One Can Win Korean War" Military Limitations Would Promote Stalemate

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON. Thursday — The question of the United Nations troops crossing the 38th Parallel was still academic, the…

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War Service Land Settlement

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 4

A few influential landowners who wanted to shirk their responsibilities to ex-servicemen were evidently sponsoring the attack made…

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Recruiting for War—or Peace?

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 2

It is pathetically incongruous that while the Prime Minister (Mr. Menses) was telling the nation on Wednesday night that the dangers of war had considerably Increased and that a flare-up was practically, certain…

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Commons Given a Serious Warning War May Start From Incidents in Persia

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 1

(A.A.P.) LONDON: The Persian Prime Minister, Ali,Banmara, may well prove "the Sarajove of the third world war," Labor…

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Letters to the Editor (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our Correspondents) Landholders and Soldier Settlers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 2

SIR.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw) has a lot to say about landholders who shirk their duties to the returned…

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'Furphies' From the Soldiers' Club BOWLS

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 2

On Saturday last the final of the Soldiers' Club Rlverina rinks was played, which was won by C. Andrews rink from H. Fahey's rink…

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Atom Powered Sub. Planned by U.S. Huge War Expenditure Approved by Truman

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 1

(A.A.P.) KEY WEST (Florida). President Truman has signed the biggest naval construction bill since the close of the second World…

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"War Won't Pay Reds"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 1

General Lucius Clay, former American military governor of Germany, stated recently that Atlantic Pact nations…

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Gen. Robertson's Command Grows in Korean War

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 4

TOKYO, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter): Lieut.-General Sir Horace Robertson returned to Tokyo yesterday to resume command of…

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British Soldier Freed on General's Order

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 3

KURE, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter): Army authorities to-day freed a 29-year-old British Army driver who had been…

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Wounded Turks From Korea

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 2

A FLYING AMBULANCE "Hastings" aircraft of the R.A.F. Transport Command recently flew from Singapore to Habbaniya airfield, in Iraw with a cargo of wounded Turkish soldiers returning to military hospitals in their homeland…

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'War in Three Years' Statement Challenged

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: The people of Australia were entitled to know on what grounds Mr. Menzies could say that…

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Russia Bans War Propaganda As "Grave Crime"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday: A law "banning" war propaganda as a grave crime against humanity, and declaring that anyone…

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Korea War (Continued) Our Men in Fight to Take Hill

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 2

TOKYO, Tuesday: Australian infantrymen, secure on a commanding ridge of a line of hills north-west of Yongdu, yesterday told a graphic story of their fight to win it from Chinese Communists…

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Dramatic Story of Incidents in War. Enjoyable Programme at the Broadway Theatre

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 4

Willie, of "When Willie Comes Marching Home", is the popular star Dan Dalley, and he is the subject of one of the freshest and Most…

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Law on War Propaganda

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 2

On the face of it, the new Russian law branding war propaganda as a grave crime against humanity, and declaring that anyone guilty of such propaganda, whatever its form, will be treated as a common criminal…

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No More Pearl Harbors for U.S. Bombers Will Get Over America if War Comes

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 8

(By a "Southern Cross" correspondent on first Pan-American Airways Strato-clipper flight to San Francisco)…

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Courageous British People Slowly Pulling Old of Difficulties But Gloomy Oh War Prospects, Says Mrs, Beveridge

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 3

ENGLAND WAS PULLING OUT OF HER TROUBLE MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE OUTSTANDING COURAGE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE,, SA S MRS. J. W. C. BEVERIDGE, OF "BILLABONG'', MHO HAS JUST RETURNED…

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"We are at War Now," Claims Recruiting Chief

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Making an urgent call to all men in the 19 to 25 age groups to volunteer for the Commonwealth Military Forces, the Director-General of Recruiting (Sir Edmund Herring) said…

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