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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

3,484 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 175

Legacy of Poverty From Civil War in China

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 2

An aged Chinese woman, pathetic and miserable refugee from war -ravaged North China, squats in her…

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Legacy of Poverty From Civil War in China

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 2

An aged Chinese woman, pathetic and miserable refugee from war -ravaged North China, squats in her…

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(Crusade for Christ) Youth Enlists

The Methodist · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 4

"Members of the General Grand Council of the Methodist Girls' Comradeship and the General Court of the Order of Knights and Keenly sensible of the urgent need for a Commonwealth…

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Lost Legion Of Ex-Soldiers In Asylums

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

What is Barnard going to do about this lost legion of ex-servicemen -- the men suffering from war neurosis,…

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No War By Trainers Over Fees

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 17

Many Sydney horse trainers have not yet increased their training fee to £5 because they were…

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Files on top Nazis "mislaid" by War Office

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 8

LONDON, Sat. -- The trial of two German field-marshals and a general has been delayed a year because their files have been "mislaid" in the British…

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Wounded beauty's romance

The Sun · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 1

PARIS, Monday. -- Husband of a former Swedish beauty queen, Elizabeth Bjerstroem, 26, shot her because…

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Britain Making More Than Before War

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 3

LORD KNOLLYS, managing director of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, arrived in Sydney today…

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Australian War Brides Come Back to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN WAR BRIDES smile happily on their return to Sydney today aboard the Georgic after more than two years in Britain. Left to right, they are: Mrs. R. Wakefield (22), of Haberfield, and her son, Douglas (2); Mrs. S. Evans (25), Redfern; Mrs. D. Sanderson (27). King's Cross; Mrs. E. Medlock (23). Fairfield, with daughter…

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Australian War Brides Come Back to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN WAR BRIDES smile happily on their return to Sydney today aboard the, Georgic after more than two years in Britain. Left to right, they are: Mrs. R. Wakefield (22), of Haberfield, and her son, Douglas (2); Mrs. S. Evans (25), Redfern; Mrs. D. Sanderson (27), King's Cross; Mrs. E. Medloclt (23), Fairfield, with daughter…

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New Chemical Used In War On Cockroaches

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 2

Another stage in "Operation Cockroach" -- the Ashfield tip, from which thousands of cockroaches have been…

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Australian War Brides Come Back to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 3

Australian war brides smile happily on their return to Sydney today aboard the Georgic after…

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Australian War Brides Come Back to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN WAR BRIDES smile happily on their return to Sydney today aboard the Georgic after more than two years in Britain. Left to right, they are: Mrs. R. Wakefield (22), of Haberfield, and her son, Douglas (2); Mrs. S. Evans (25), Redfern; 2 1 Mrs. D. Sanderson (27), King's Cross: Mrs. E. Medlock (23). Fairfield, with daughter…

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Australian War Brides Come Back to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN WAR BRIDES smile happily on their return to Sydney today aboard the Georgic after more than two years in Britain. Left to right, they are: Mrs. R. Wakefield (22), of Haberfield, and her son, Douglas (2); Mrs. S. Evans (25), Redfern; Mrs. D. Sanderson (27), King's Cross; Mrs. E. Medlock (23), Fairfield, with daughter…

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War Ship Took Body of Poet Home to His Beloved Eire

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 11

THE most dramatic incident in the life of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats happened, as only the Irish could say, some nine years after his death. The lyrical master died at Cap Martin, in the sun-soaked French Riviera that he loved so well, in January 1939. His body lay in the tiny cemetery of Roguebrune a few…

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Oppose War Pledge Under Atlantic Pact

The Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 7

WASHINGTON, Monday.--Two US leaders declared today they were opposed to committing their country to any moral obligation to go to war under the Atlantic Pact. These declarations were…

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Bow-and-Arrow War Against Cowra's Rabbits

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 1

YOUNG, Monday.— Shanghais and bows and arrows are being used in the Cowra district to fight…

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Preparedness for War Query

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Australia's preparedness for war is much better than it was before the…

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Preparedness for War Query

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Australia's preparedness for war is much better than it was before the…

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Preparedness for War Query

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Australia's preparedness for war is much better than it was before the…

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