War Costs
Replying to a question in Parliament, the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Casey) said that the Great War had cost Australia to date £843,914,000…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1937
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War Homes Arrears Written Off. Commission Shows Profit
Arrears of instalments on war service homes in Australia amount to £865,499, or 4.22 of the total value of 37,159 homes built by the War Service Homes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in China
It is reported that the Japanese are bombing Red Cross lorries and shooting Red Cross workers. Fierce fighting continues in the Shanghai area…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Fatally Wounded. While on Hunting Expedition. Queanbeyan
While Edmund Joseph Morrison (30) was with two friends on a shooting expedition in Queanbeyan his horse bolted, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Payment of War Pensions
Owing to the Singleton Show holiday falling on Thursday next, war pensions will be paid at the Muswellbrook Post Office on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sino-jap. War. Heavy Fighting
After a month's strenuous fighting around the Shanghai-Woosing area, the Japanese have made progress over a 20-mile front, during which the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Fire on Fleet of Junks. Many Refugees Killed and Wounded. Chinese Withdrawal to New Defences. Shanghai
The Chinese withdrawal on the northern and eastern fronts was yesterday carried out without loss and in admirable order. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallace Beery Wounded HOLLYWOOD Sept. 14
Wallace Beery, while holding two drawn revolvers, tripped in the course of a scene in a film entited "Badman of Brimstone."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers' Congress Melbourne
The Federal Congress of the Returned Soldiers' League will meet in Hobart on November 17. The Federal president (Sir Gilbert Dycit) will preside…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Untouched by War, Killed by Wasps Ex-soldier's Harvest Death
Ten minutes after being stung by wasps a Suffolk (Eng.) farm worker dropped dead. He had gone right through the war, including the retreat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatally Wounded by Pea-rifle Bullet Youth Committed for Trial
The Newcastle District Coroner (Mr Chiplin) returned a finding of manslaughter after an inquest on Wednesday afternoon on Norman Clive Fakes,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War on Grass Hoppers
Plans were laid for a systematic grasshopper campaign at the last meeting of Tamworth P.P. Board. As a commencement 20 tons of bran is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shots at King's Cross Cabaret. Man Wounded. Assailant Escapes. Sydney
George Thomas Lynch (37) was shot twice early this morning during a brawl at "The Top-Hatters' Cabaret" In King's Cross. Pellets of shot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overseas News. the War in China
The northern battle, in which the Japanese are employing 100,000 men, has been extended to a 79-mile front. The front extends from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italy's Plans to Finish Spanish War Secret Mission
Italy is planning a new campaign to finish the Spanish war, declares the French newspaper "l'O[?]uvre." Marshal Vadoglio, who has just returned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Study Circle Primary Final Aid the Great War
To understand the causes of the Great War we must go back many years and trace the steps that led up to the tragedy of 1914-18…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Relic of World War. Italian Torpedo Found. Marseilles
The authorities at the Touslose arsenal declare that the torpedo picked up by a French trawler in the Mediterranean was of Italian manufacture,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Pensions Extension of Payments
The Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, stated yesterday that the Commonwealth Government had decided to enact as from January 1, 1938, that wives…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.Z. High Commissioner's Fiery Speech to League Council "Who Will Be Next to Appeal Against War Ring?" Suggests that Spain be Made a Mandated Country. GENEVA
In a fiery and moving speech to the League Council, the New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr. Jordon) appealed for League action to stop the wars while the League Council was debating the Spanish appeal against foreign intervention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Bridge Parents and Citizens
The war bridge evening being held in connection with the Parents and Citizen's Association in the Boys' School on September 23 gives promise of being the…
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