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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

4,891 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 245

Japanese "Better Fighters:" Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 1

Red Chinese soldiers are better rifle shots but "not half as good fighters as the Japanese," three…

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War Graves Film

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

A film, War Graves of the British Commonwealth and Empire, will be screened at the Assembly Hall next…

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Menzies At War Talks

Tribune · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 1

LONDON.—Co-ordination of Commonwealth countries behind the US war machine is the purpose of the Commonwealth Prime…

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War Preparations Inbaltic States

Meie Kodu - Our Home · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

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War Artist Dead At 71

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —Mr. Harold Septimus Power died to-day, aged 71. He was an artist widely known for his…

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War Tempo Eases In Indo-China

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 20

SAIGON, Thursday.--A French communique is sued here yesterday said there was a noted lessen…

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War Tempo Eases in Indo-China

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 20

SAIGON, Thursday.--A French communique issued here yesterday said there was a noted lessen…

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War Tempo Eases in Indo-China

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 20

SAIGON, Thursday.--A French communique issued here yesterday said there was a noted lessen…

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War Tempo Eases In Indo-China

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 20

SAIGON, Thursday.--A French communique issued here yesterday said there was a noted…

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Wharfies Protest at War And High Prices

Tribune · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

M[?]ENZIES’ policy of an “insane drive to war” was unanimously condemned on Wednesday at a lunch hour meeting of wharfies at No. 12…

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World Revulsion Growing Against US War On Korea

Tribune · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 1

World revulsion against US imperialism's brutal and aggressive war against the Korean people has spread even to the ranks of American industrialists and conservative intellectuals. THE democratic demands—…

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Financial News: World Tin Output Post-war Peak In 1950

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

A post-war peak in world tin production is expected to be shown for 1950, and an even higher output is likely…

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Chinese waif found in war zone will be trained by nuns in U.S.

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 2

ONE of the most fabulous personalities to emerge from World War II., I5-years-of Patsi Li, is in the news again. Patsi is the Chinese girl who. as a waif, was found by hard-boiled Marines on Gualadcanal in 1942 and was befriended by a Catholic chaplain. How she got to "the Canal"…

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Dead Soldiers Sent Home In Gunny Sacks

Tribune · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

PEKING.—American and British troops killed in Korea are being shipped home in gunny sacks…

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White Christmas for Australian soldiers serving in Korea

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 5

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS in Korea made their White Christmas as happy as possible. ABOVE LEFT: Padre A. W. Lainge conducts a Christmas church service under flags of Australia and the United Nations on a…

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US Plan To Rearm Germany, Japan Is Direct Threat To Australia The American plan to rearm Germany and Japan is a step to a terrible world war in which countless Australians will lose their lives

Tribune · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 2

THE plan, which is a flagrant violation of postwar treaties and an insult to our war dead, has aroused mass protest…

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With Wounded Turks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Jan. 4 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Flight Sister Gwen Threlkald, of Canberra, and an English flight sister arrived in…

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War Graves Film

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 4

A film, "War Graves of the British Commonwealth and Empire," will be shown in the Assembly Hall, Margaret Street, Sydney, next…

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World war 'imminent'

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

MANILA, Thurs. -- A third world war might begin "in the immediate future," General Carlos…

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Choral Singing, Play Writing Contests To Commemorate Anzac Day

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 5

ANZAC Festival Committee has arranged six competitions to commemorate Anzac Day this year. They will include choral singing, play and poem writing, verse speaking and a programme cover design…

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