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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

4,237 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 212

Elephants Trampled Life From 20,000 to End War Without Pity Massacre Of Carthaginian Mercenaries

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 11

IN the summer of 237 B.C. a desperate force of mercenaries, reduced almost to skeletons by starvation, burst from the gates of Tunis and flung themselves in a suicide attack against a well-fed army which was investing the North African town. Aim of the mercenaries was to…

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Elephants Trampled Life From 20,000 to End War Without Pity Massacre Of Carthaginian Mercenaries

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 11

IN the summer of 237 B.C. a desperate force of mercenaries, reduced almost to skeletons by starvation, burst from the gates of Tunis and flung themselves in a suicide attack against a well-fed army which was investing the North African town. Aim of the mercenaries was to…

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Elephants Trampled Life From 20,000 to End War Without Pity Massacre Of Carthaginian Mercenaries

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 11

IN the summer of 237 B.C. a desperate force of mercenaries, reduced almost to skeletons by starvation, burst from the gates of Tunis and flung themselves in a suicide attack against a well-fed army which was investing the North African town. Aim of the mercenaries was to…

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Elephants Trampled Life From 20,000 to End War Without Pity Massacre Of Carthaginian Mercenaries

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 11

IN the summer of 237 B.C. a desperate force of mercenaries, reduced almost to skeletons by starvation, burst from the gates of Tunis and flung themselves in a suicide attack against a well-fed army which was investing the North African town. Aim of the mercenaries was to…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Elephants Trampled Life From 20,000 to End War Without Pity Massacre Of Carthaginian Mercenaries

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 11

IN the summer of 237 B.C. a desperate force of mercenaries, reduced almost to skeletons by starvation, burst from the gates of Tunis and flung themselves in a suicide attack against a well-fed army which was investing the North African town. Aim of the mercenaries was to…

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Popular "soldier" to stay home

The Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 1

PRIVATE SEPTIMUS--the most popular soldier in Australia's 1st Battalion--is to be left behind when the unit sails for Korea in a few weeks. Sep is the Shetland pony. He's six…

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Red Soldier's Desertion

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 3

Sergeant Vadim Baykhin Demidovitch, formerly of the Guards Rifle Division of the Red Army,…

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Soldier Names Brothers Co - Respondents in Suit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

A young soldier, whose wife committed adultery with his two brothers while he was away fighting with the Australian forces in Korea, obtained a decree nisi against her in Mr. Acting - Justice Nield's Divorce Court today…

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Soldier Names Brothers Co-respondents in Suit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

A young soldier, whose wife committed adultery with his two brothers while he was away fighting with the Australian forces in Korea, obtained a decree nisi against her in Mr. Acting-Justice Nield's Divorce Court today…

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Red Soldier's Desertion

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 3

Sergeant Vadim Baykhin Demidovitch, formerly of the Guards Rifle Division of the Red Army,'…

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Soldier Names Brothers Co - Respondents in Suit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

A young soldier, whose wife committed adultery with his two brothers while he was away fighting with the Australian forces in Korea, obtained a decree nisi against her in Mr. Acting - Justice Nield's Divorce Court today…

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Comforts for wounded men

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 5

Eighty-one cases of Red Cross comforts for sick and wounded servicemen left Sydney in…

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Atomic War Head

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 18

LONDON (Extel.). --A colored photograph' of an atomic explosion in the United States was shown…

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Atomic War Head

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 18

LONDON (Extel.). -- A colored photograph of an atomic explosion in the United States was shown…

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Atomic War Head

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 18

LONDON (Extel.).--A colored photograph of an atomic explosion in the United States was shown…

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Stalin at 'war' talk

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 4

MOSCOW, Tues.-- Marshal Stalin was among Soviet Government leaders who…

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War Hero Cook Back to Hospital

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 5

War hero William Cook, who spent 14 weeks in Sydney Hospital after his legs were…

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War Combatants Hinged on Secret Mission

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 18

CAPETOWN, Wed. (A.P.).--Former South African Defence Minister (Mr. Oswald Pirow) said here this week that he had been instructed by the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain to offer Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe in 1938 if the Jews were allowed to leave the Reich with half their property…

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War Combatants Hinged on Secret Mission

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 18

CAPETOWN, Wed. (A.P.).--Former South African Defence Minister (Mr. Oswald Pirow) said here this week that he had been instructed by the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain to offer Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe in 1938 if the Jews were allowed to leave the Reich with half their property…

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War Combatants Hinged on Secret Mission

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 18

CAPETOWN, Wed. (A.P.).-- South African Defence Minister (Mr. Oswald Pirow) said here this week that he had been instructed by the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain to offer Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe in 1938 if the Jews were allowed to leave the Reich with half their property…

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