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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 99
The money-raising campaign, organised by the citizens of Newcastle in aid of the Australian Wounded Soldiers' Fund, was advanced a further stage yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Hilaire Belloc made a remarkable prophecy to some school teachers in the Kingsway Hall at the beginning of June. After expressing the opinion that the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →There was a little friction over the election of the Joint War Committee which might easily have developed into a nasty unpleasantness. It was due to the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. Holman, the State Premier, stated to-day that the Government had recently had under consideration the question of commemorating in some special…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The peculiarity about the debate in the house of Representatives last week was that the Ministerial supporters were more critical of the War Census Bill than…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"Le Matin" makes the striking statement that the total number killed in the war throughout Europe is five millions end the number of wounded seven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Defence Minister introduced to Parliament last week his War Pensions Bill, defining the rates of pensions to [?] Payable to soldiers incapacitated by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Senate continued its sitting after the report closed this morning. Senator GARDINER, the Vice-president of the Executive Council, moved that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The public is absorbed in the desperate [?] ruggle for Warsaw. Russian Communiques show that the Russians are holding all the vital points…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No one who goes freely about London can doubt that during the past fortnight our public has come to regard the war more seriously than ever before. There…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the House of Representatives, to-day, Mr. Fleming (N.S.W.) asked if the Minister for the Navy would have an inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sapper W[?] Corr[?] who is with the Second Signal Troop of the Second Australian Light Ho[?] be at the Dardanolies has forwarded an account of his…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Nearly every second or third woman one meets in tram or train is busily engaged knitting, knitting, knitting, knitting socks for our gallant soldier boys…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Owing to the opening of recruiting depots in the country, there is naturally a failing off in the number now offering at Victoria Barracks. About 150 offered their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first of the recovered. Australian and Now Zealand soldiers have left Weymouht in Dorsetshire. They were given a hearty farewell by the convalescents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first outdoor function in connection with the Newcastle district Australia Day celebrations took the form of a naval and military, tattoo, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Indignation was expressed at a reunion of the Newcastle Branch of the Master Builders' Association in the Masonic Hall on Saturday evening regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The latest official communique says—The enemy continues to advance on the Janishal-Shavli-Russient front. On the Narew front, on the left side…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The public generally will be pleased with and admire the promptness with which Mr. Justice Rich[?] his interim report concerning one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All German soldiers on leave have been ordered to rejoin their regiments immediately…
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