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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

3,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 163

Wounded Man Keeps Secret

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 3

A man who received treatment for a bullet wound at Sydney Hospital on Tuesday returned to the hospital on Wednesday with another bullet wound…

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War Depots Used Delayed Cargo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 3

To relieve congestion at Sydney wharf sheds, 600 tons of cargo has been removed to disused…

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Forty War Brides Come Back

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 3

More than 40 Australian girls who are married to American ex-servicement returned to Sydney yesterday…

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Newington War Memorial Fete FEBRUARY 28

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 4

Friends of Newington College have been hard at work for some time raising funds to defray the cost of the school's proposed war memorial. This is to take the form of modern baths within…

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War Bride Returns To Study Medicine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 4

An Australian mother of a two-year-old girl returned to Sydney from America yesterday to become a medical student at Melbourne University…

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New Organisation Declares War On Syndicated Trash

Tribune · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 7

Australian organisations whose prime interest is the defence development of Australian literary and art culture have now banded together to fight the menace of syndicated us comics, magazines and other trash…

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War Pensions Scandal This Report Should Shake Up Repat

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 4

A Government-constituted body, the No. 1 Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal, has issued a damning indictment of the Repatriation Commission methods. Tribunal's annual report…

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Australian exposes Japanese hoarding of huge war stocks TOKIO

The Sun · Sunday 22 February 1948 · page 28

A TEAM of British agents, directed by an Australian lieutenant, have discovered and seized huge hoards of looted Japanese war material valued at £2,666,000. They have also arrested 24 prominent…

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Wounded Men Given Remand

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 5

BATHURST, Monday. -- Two laborers arrested this morning on a charge of attempted breaking and entering, had been wounded and were taken to hospital fo rtreatment, it was stated at Bathurst…

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Wounded Men On £50 Bail

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

BATHURST, Monday.--Two laborers arrested this morning on a charge of attempted breaking and…

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Wounded Men On £50 Bail

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

BATHURST, Monday.-- laborers arrested this morning on a charge of attempted breaking and…

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Wounded Men On £50 Bail

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

BATHURST, Monday.-- Two laborers arrested this morning on a charge of attempted breaking and…

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Wounded Men On £50 Bail

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

BATHURST, Monday.-- laborers arrested this morning on a charge of attempted breaking and…

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Two men wounded in midnight street chase

The Sun · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

BATHURST, Monday.--Two suspected men were shot at and wounded in a midnight chase through Bathurst streets. One of the men, aged 20, has a large flesh wound in…

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Civil War In Yemen

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

ADEN, Monday. -- Civil war has broken out in Yemen, tiny Arab State adjoining Aden, where the…

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Civil War In Yemen

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

ADEN, Monday. -- Civil war has broken out in Yemen, tiny Arab State adjoining Aden, where the…

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Soldiers Out to End Fighting

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

HIGHLAND Light Infantry going into action to quell fighting between Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem on…

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Terrorists Order Wave of Bloodshed in Holy Land Jews Scream At British Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Jewish terrorists have called for the "bloodiest reprisals" following two bombing outrages in Jerusalem yesterday in which 49 persons were killed and 96…

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Terrorists Order Wave of Bloodshed in Holy Land Jews Scream At British Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Jewish terrorists hove called for the "bloodiest reprisals" following two bombing outrages in Jerusalem yesterday in which 49 persons were killed and 96…

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Terrorists Order Wave of Bloodshed in Holy Land Jews Scream At British Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Jewish terrorists have called for the "bloodiest reprisals" following two bombing outrages in Jerusalem yesterday in which 49 persons were killed and 96…

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