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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
860 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 43
The "Daily Mail's" correspondent, at Durban states that the Government has granted a five days' armistice. A deputation, mostly of loyal Dutch,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Paris communique sates :—The Germans continue a violent cannonade in the west front. The enemy unsuccessfully attempted to recapture ground lost in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the Allies in Flanders are daily fighting with magnificent elan and splendid spirit, the Germans are struggling with the valour of desperation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Sir Walter Barttelot, Bart., whose name appears in the list of wounded, received his first appointment in the Dorset Regiment in December, 1899, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, this morning received a wireless message from Colonel Holmes, the Administrator at Rahaul, stating that all the wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →September seems likely to enhance its reputation as a battle month, for almost every day in it (says the "Daily Chronicle") is the anniversary of a fight. On…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Truly war is not a Christian weapon. Nevertheless, there are circumstances when the safety of our own country and our obligations to sister countries compel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The toll—counted in human lives—of the great struggle against German militarism is going to be terribly heavy. Of that there are already unmistakable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Paris remains marvellous," writes the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph." "It knows that a great battle is forward, know it yesterday, and yet…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attention has been directed by a New York journal to a remarkable prophetic warning by Leo Tolstoi, whose death occurred long before the cloud of war…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An interview given by the First Lord of the Admiralty to Mr. William G. Shepherd, the representative of the United Press Associations of America…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is officially announced that, replying to the demands made by the Triple Entente, Turkey confined herself to a proposition to recall the Turkish warships,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Paris communique states:—Despite the continuous violent German offensive, we have advanced slightly between Dixmude and Lys, except at Messines, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The announcement of the improved se[?], of separation allowance for the families of married soldiers must have been glad news in many homes, and to many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Private Reginald C. Pluck, of Hamilton, Newcastle, who is attached to the "A" Company of the First Australian Imperial. Expeditionary Force, writes the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advices from Berlin state that an extraordinary number of wounded are arriving at the German capital, and the enthusiasm of the people is abating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The peculiar interest which America takes in the news of the war with Germany lies in the fact that the United States is largely made up of Europeans…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While the fighting in Europe continues to be of a desperate character there is evidence that the German military machine is, reaching the end…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—A correspondent, in your issue on yesterday's date, has made known a discovery which should entitle him to the thanks of all who at present spend a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Advices from Berlin report that there in a general feeling in Germany that the war will-terminate by the cad of Januar."…
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