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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

3,484 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 175

Huge Cost to U.s. of Russian Cold War

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 2

BALTIMORE, Monday.--Russia's cold war will have cost United States taxpayers at least 25,000,000,000 dollars by…

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White Russians on Run Fears For Comrades China War Peril

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 6

DARWIN, Monday. -- Fears that Chinese Communists would hand over to Russia any White…

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White Russians on Run Fears For Comrades China War Peril

Daily Mirror · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 6

DARWIN, Monday. -- Fears that Chinese Communists would hand over to Russia any White…

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Police Seek Missing Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 10

Police and provost squads are searching for a soldier who alleged that three men and two women had assaulted and…

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Anzac House Plans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 3

No immediate application would be made to build Anzac House at the corner of Martin Place and Macquarie Street,…

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Preparing to build new Anzac House

The Sun · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 3

A start will soon be made in preparing working plans for the new Anzac House, but it will be at least two years…

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War Widows In Training Scheme

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 9

A DEPARTMENT of Postwar Reconstruction spokesman said today that war widows were still eligible to…

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War Widows In Training Scheme

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 14

A DEPARTMENT of Postwar Reconstruction spokesman said today that war widows were still eligible to…

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Young War Neurosis Victim's Suicide From Flat Windows

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

RETURNED SOLDIER, Harold Richard Duff (26), Flat 8, Tamara, Royston Square, cut his throat,…

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Lenin's Two Voices In Radio War Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 24.— Broadcasts of plays on Lenin were used in Berlin (his weekend as weapons of political…

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Nobody Wants Australia's War Prize: 9,787-ton Reynella

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

NOBODY wants Australia's wa[?] prize—the 9,787-ton motor ship Reynella. Inferior accommodation for crew…

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Soldier Leaps to Death

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

A young returned soldier who was to consult a leading nerve specialist this morning cut his throat and…

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Soldier's Leap To Death From Flat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 7

A young returned soldier who was to consult a leading nerve specialist this morning cut his wrists and jumped from a window of his flat to his death 70 feet below in Surrey Lane, King's Cross, today. VICTIM of the tragedy,…

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Soldier's Leap To Death From Flat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 7

A young returned soldier who was to consult a leading nerve specialist this morning cut his wrists and jumped from a window of his flat to his death 70 feet below in Surrey Lane, King's Gross, today. VICTIM of the tragedy,…

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Soldier's Leap To Death From Flat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 7

A young returned soldier who was to consult a leading nerve specialist this morning cut his wrists and jumped from a window of his flat to his death 70 feet below in Surrey Lane, King's Cross, today. VICTIM of the tragedy,…

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Soldier's Leap To Death From Flat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 7

A young returned soldier who was to consult a leading nerve specialist this morning cut his wrists and jumped from a window of his flat to his death 70 feet below in Surrey Lane, King's Cross, toddy. VICTIM of the tragedy,…

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Soldier's Leap To Death From Flat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 7

A young returned soldier who was to consult a leading nerve specialist this morning cut his wrists and jumped from a window of his flat to his death 70 feet below in Surrey Lane, King's Cross, today. VICTIM of the tragedy,…

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Anzac House Competition Anzac House Competition Exhibition of Drawings

Construction · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 2

The Exhibition of the thirty-nine sets of drawings entered for the Anzac House Architectural Competition was opened at the Department of Education’s Art Gallery, Bridge Street, Sydney,…

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War Pilots Enjoy Glider Thrills

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 2

A FEW weeks ago a young glider pilot, of Caulfield, Victoria, flying his craft over Benalla, was caught in a chimney of…

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U.S. building up war materials

The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.-- America has completed as to 39 per cent the stockpiling of strategic war…

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