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The wars & local soldiers, 1950

5,598 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Magpies Win War With P.M.G. Men

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Magpies have won the war with telephone linesmen, and P.M.G. engineers have had to devise a means of overcoming interruptions to trunk lines caused by magpies…

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Magpies Win War With P.M.G. Men

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Magpies have won the war with telephone linesmen, and P.M.G. engineers have had to devise a means of overcoming interruptions to trunk lines caused by magpies…

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U.S. Steel Up 55 p.c. Since Pre-war

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 21

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.--Finished steel prices in the United States have increased by 55.2 per cent…

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U.S. Steel Up 55 p.c. Since Pre-war

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 21

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.--Finished steel prices in the United States have increased by 55.2 per cent…

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Yanks Want Allies As Allies of Aust. In New War

Tribune · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 3

General MacArthur wants us to have Japanese of the breed depicted in the pictures above as migrants in Australia and as allies in a war against the Soviet Union and the liberation movements of Asia. GENERAL Eichelberger…

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New Life For Czech Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 11

PRAGUE, Wednesday.--Things are getting better in Czechoslovakia, and even soldiers are finding…

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New Life For Czech Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 11

PRAGUE, Wednesday.--Things are getting better in Czechoslovakia, and even soldiers are finding…

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New Life For Czech Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 11

PRAGUE, Wednesday.--Things are getting better in Czechoslovakia, and even soldiers are finding…

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Intruder Wounded by Shot Gun

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 8

Hector Benbow wakened from his sleep, in the early hours of the morning, to find a strange man standing by his bed in a threatening attitude…

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Prisoners of War

The Biz · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

The Fall of Singapore will be commemorated by a memorial ceremony at the Cenotaph in Martin Place on February 15 this year. Many country…

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Tight silence on freeing Jap war crime suspects

The Sun · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 9

TOKIO, Thursday.--Japanese newspapers yesterday gave the first news to their people of the pending…

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H.S.[?]. Jewish War Memorial Communal Activities Members Activities

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 9

Sunday—March 5: War Memorial Dance. Sunday, February 19—Gala Night. Every Sunday night—Ex-Servicemen's…

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Drunkenness or War Neurosis? Car Driver Acquitted Of a Charge

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 6

STATED in policc evidence to have driven a car through High Street, Penrith, at a speed, at one stage, of up to 60-70 m.p.h.,…

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Czech Soldier Very Cultured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 6

PRAGUE.--"Wild West" stories are so much lumber in the Czech army libraries, according to the Army newspaper…

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Soldiers' Dinner

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

The annual dinner of the N.S.W. Limbless Soldiers' Association will be held at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, February 24, at…

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Soldiers' Dinner

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

The annual dinner of the N.S.W. Limbless Soldiers' Association will be held at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, February 24, at…

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Czech Soldier Very Cultured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 6

PRAGUE.--"Wild West" stories are so much lumber in the Czech army libraries, according to the Army newspaper…

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Aerial War On Rabbits

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 12

AN experiment in mass poisoning which is taking place at Triambie, Margraves, may provide the answer to the rabbit problem,…

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Aust. war bride shot dead

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thurs.--Four revolver bullets killed on Australian war bride…

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Czech War on Church Opposition

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 20

PRAGUE. -- The Czech Ministry of Church Affairs has set as its gaol for 1950 the complete stifling…

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