Matters in Sydney. Another Batch of Wounded. Sydney
It was announced to-day that a hospital ship left Suez on August 29th with 24 officers, three passengers, and 411 soldiers of the rank and file on board. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1915
1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 99
Britain's Part in the War
The fact that the Allies are able to raise a vast loan in America is no doubt gall and wormwood to the Germans, and doubly so because they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Pensions. the New Management. London
The London "Daily Telegraph" states that the Government is introducing a practically new Naval and Military War Pensions' Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Kitchener's Views. Germany's Failure. Britain's Solid Position. London
Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, reviewed the progress of the campaign in the House of Lords yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cost of the War. Mr. Asquith's Speech. Aid to Our Allies. London
In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, moved a credit vote of £250,000,000 The vote covers not only the army and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Discharged Soldiers. Sydney
Mr. Holman, the State Premier, has received from the Secretary to the Federal Parliamentary War Committee the following suggestions from the Defence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Care of the Wounded
Good provision is being made for the care in New Zealand of men returning from the war sick or wounded. A few of the medical men have advised the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Outlook
The speech delivered by Lord Kitchener in the House of Lords will be valued chiefly on account of the assurance which it affords, coming from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Census Points
To call upon the average citizen to state the exact amount of cash contained in his pockets at a particular date, a couple of months previously, is a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Munitions of War
The new Minister with the new portfolio of Munitions and Supplies organised a conference of ironmasters and other technical experts recently, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spain and the War
A number of Spanish intellectuals desirous of keeping themselves right with history, have issued a kind of manifesto defining the view they take of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Berlin in War Time
"Vorwaerts," the leading Socialist newspaper in Germany, publishes an article on "Berlin Streets in War Time," in which attention is drawn to the military life in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Workers and the War Loan
The Vickers Company has offered to its workers in all factories a scheme, having a threefold advantage—encouragement to thrift, inventive to good time-keeping, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Tax on War Profit
Nobody will grudge his share of the war taxes if it be a fair share; but the nation as a whole has a right to insist upon a tax on war profits. The people who have…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →In the Trenches. War Writer's Impressions
Phillip Gibbs had an interesting story in the London "Daily Chronicle," written from general headquarters, on August 2. He said:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If America Went to War. Shortage of Munitions
Notwithstanding Germany's assertions, says the "Sun," that the United States is furnishing a great part of the war munitions used by the Allies, and contrary to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Humour of War. Jokes of the Trenches
Some notion of the rough jests and robust humour which characterise the life of the trenches is given by Mr. Philip Gibbs in an article in the "Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Enemy Bases in Brazil. War Munitions From New York
According to the "New York Herald," steamships have been leaving for ports in Southern Brazil loaded with arms, shells, barbed wire, chemicals of all kinds,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The War. Compulsory Service. Warning by Labour. a Plea for Freedom. Great Speech in the Commons. London
On the report stage of the credit vote of £250,000,000 Colonel Arthur Lee advocated compulsory recruiting. The Allies could not achieve victory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Land for Soldiers and Sailors. London, Thrsday
Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, gave evidence to-day before the committee which is inquiring into the subject of land…
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