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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

3,484 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 175

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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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 Ouery

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 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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Dangers to Health and Politics Declare War on All Rats

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 8

Strange and startling mishaps are caused by rats. Some years ago, in Germany, three elephants had to be destroyed because hungry rats had gnawed their feet. Disastrous floods have been…

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Lead, Zinc For Anglo-USA War Stockpiles: Aust Homebuilders Go Without

Tribune · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 3

While farmers cannot get wire-netting to fight the rabbit pest, and building held up for want of zinc and lead, the big metal monopolies in Australia are exporting at least three-quarters of the nation’s lead and zinc output and large quantities of steel…

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North Atlantic Pact’s War Aims Soviet Union Steps Up Peace Drive

Tribune · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

LONDON.—The North Atlantic Pact has become the chief instrument of the aggressive policy of the ruling circles of Great Britain and the United States…

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Mystery Death of Ex-soldier

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 4

A post -mortem will be held today in an effort to find the cause of death of an ex- serviceman who slumped to the floor dead at his home last night…

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Mystery Death of Ex-soldier

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 4

A post- mortem will be held today in an effort to find the cause of death of an ex- serviceman who slumped to the floor dead at his home last night…

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12,000 Acres In S.A. For Soldiers' Farms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 11

CANBERRA, Tuesday.— The Federal Government would develop and improve about 12,000 acres of land…

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Preventing Atom War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (A.A.P.). — Representative Melvin Price (Illinois) told Congress to-day that it might…

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War Inevitable, Say Russians

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 12

NEW YORK, Thursday.--War between Russia and America is inevitable and will come just when the Soviet is ready, according to two Russian fliers who recently fled from…

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War Inevitable, Say Russians

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 12

NEW YORK, Thursday.--War between Russia and America is inevitable and will come just when the Soviet is ready, according to two Russian fliers who recently fled from…

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War Inevitable, Say Russians

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday.--War between Russia and America is inevitable and will come just when the Soviet is ready, according to two Russian fliers who recently fled from…

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War Inevitable, Say Russians

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 12

NEW YORK, Thursday.--War between Russia and America is inevitable and will come just when the Soviet is ready, according to two Russian fliers who recently fled from…

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War Inevitable, Say Russians

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 12

NEW YORK, Thursday.--War between Russia and America is inevitable and will come just when the Soviet is ready, according to two Russian fliers who recently fled from…

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Rabbit "War" in Victoria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Open war on rabbits was officially declared in Victoria to-day. A regulation has been…

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War on Rabbits in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--By official proclamation, the war on rabbits throughout Victoria commenced yesterday…

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