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The wars & local soldiers, 1950

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Indians Warned of Indo-pakistan War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 9

BOMBAY, Thursday.--Deputy Indian Prime Minister Sardar Patel warned a crowd of 30,000 people last night that relations between India and Pakistan had become so strained and bitter that the situation was "capable of provoking war "…

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Mother Finds Baby Lost During War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 11

PARIS.--It was early summer in 1940. The Panzer divisions were sweeping through France…

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Indians Warned of Indo-pakistan War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 11

BOMBAY, Thursday.--Deputy Indian Prime Minister Sardar Patel warned a crowd of 30,000 people last night that relations between India and Pakistan had become so strained and bitter that the situation was "capable of provoking war."…

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Warning to Indians on Possibility of Indo-pakistan War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 5

BOMBAY, Thursday.--Deputy Indian Prime Minister Sardar Patel warned a crowd of 30,000 people last night that relations between India and Pakistan had become so strained and bitter that the situation was "capable…

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Warning to Indians on Possibility of Indo-pakistan War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 5

BOMBAY, Thursday.--Deputy Indian Prime Minister Sardar Patel warned a crowd of 30,000 people last night that relations between India and Pakistan had become so strained and bitter that the situation was "capable…

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Communal Activities H.S.W. [?]wish War Memorial Members Activities

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 7

Sunday, January 8 — War Memorial Dance. Every Wednesday Night — Basketball Practice…

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Australia and the Defeated—no.1 The aftermath of war and the problem of Japan

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 3

YOU can't solve a problem by pretending that it doesn't exist. And when the problem is your own, it won't help by trying to load it on to someone else's shoulders. To-day the problems posed by the defeated nations in World War II are crying out for settlement. And one of them, at least, intimately concerns us…

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Circumstances Of War

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 14

BRITISH wool clip has decreased by 33 per cent, since before the war. Mr. J. H. Shaw, a prominent member of the Bradford wool trade…

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Australia Signs Rules Of War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 5 (A.A.P.). —Four conventions for the protection of war victims were signed at Berne yesterday by…

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First Post-War Smithfield Show Breeding Centre Of World's Livestock

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 10

LONDON.—For more than 150 years, Britain has been breeding centre of the world's livestock, and the first post-war Smithfield Show of meat animals which closed in London in December was a timely reminder of the importance of this vital industry…

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Modern Knowledge And Ancient Wisdom In Grain Growing Out Of World War Necessity

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 6

ONE of the major achievements of British farmers during World War II, was to turn Britain from a pastoral to an arable country in two short years. That was to save space in the ships by growing at home that bulky commodity, grain. She must still grow grain, to save dollars and to produce the feeding stuffs .which she can no longer import for her livestock on the pre-war scale…

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U.S. favors cuts in British war debts 'Big Factor in Dollar Drain'

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Thurs.--American economists believed that Britain's war debts should now be scaled down, an official U.S. spokesman said last…

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States Want Federal Action on Soldiers' Land Values

The Land · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

THE Victorian Government will ask the Federal Government to amend the Commonwealth-State Soldier Settlement Agreement Act to enable the to acquire land at current instead of at 1942 values…

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Woman wounded in gun duel with police sergeant

The Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

PERTH, Saturday.--A police sergeant wounded a quarter-caste native woman last night when she aimed a double-barrel shotgun at him…

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AUSTRALIANA War waste

The World's News · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 20

WITH regard to road-making, the Yanks must rank with the Romans; the road to Darwin is a national asset, but equally valuable…

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Civilians Conscripted For Malay War

Tribune · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 6

SINGAPORE.—All civilian resources will be conscripted early this year in the war against Malayan freedom…

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War Neurosis Victims May Get A New Deal

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 4

Chief hope for war neurosis sufferers at the moment is the elevation of Senator W. J. Cooper, M.B.E. (Q.), to the Repatriation portfolio in the new Menzies Government. THEY got a raw deal from…

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Conflict on Pension Law Hits Soldier

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 27

The Social Services Department refuses to recognise a clause in the Repatriation Act setting out unequivocally that pensions are absolutely inalienable…

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Termites, rain damaging War Memorial

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 8

Termites and leaking water are spoiling the interior of the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park. White ants have…

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The War Of The Stooping Men

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 6

Twenty-two-year old law student Peter R. Tranter, leader of 200 Sydney University sixfooters, was busy yesterday thinking out a new move against the no-standing ban on Sydney's bus…

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