War Pensions. Melbourne
A deputation of Australian journalists waited to-day on Mr. Higgs, the Federal Treasurer, and urged that war pensions should be increased. They contended that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1916
2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 130
Post War Trade. Melbourne
Mr. Tudor, the Minister for Customs, to-day expressed cordial approval of resolutions passed by the London Associated Chamber of Commerce, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russia's Finances. Cost of the War. Petrograd
M. P. L. Bark, the Russian Minister for Finance, delivered his Budget speech. He stated that there was a deficit of £37,000,000, and that the war was costing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Second Edition. the War. Germany and Turkey. How Yussuf Died. Cairo
The newspaper "Mokattam" publishes a message from Constantinople, which states that Count von Sanders went to Berlin and informed the Kaiser that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Lull at Verdun Germans Stopped. Fail on Two Fronts. Another Attack Expected. Paris
The latest communique states:—Our guns with the British guns effectively fired the enemy trenches south-east of Boesinghe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returning Soldiers. Sydney
Over 900 wounded and sick soldiers will arrived in Sydney during the next few days. To-morrow morning 106 men from New South Wales and 43 from Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Honours. Rewards for Officers. London
Colonel Lockwood asked in the House of Commons when the special rewards for officers concerned in the Gallipoli evacuation would be announced, and also…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ireland's War
We in Ireland regard this as our war in a way that was never true of any war in which the Empire was engaged in the past…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A War Miracle
The really astonishing thing has been the raising of three millions of men in 13 months by voluntary enlistment by a nation which the enemy thought was…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →After the War
In a very short while after the war we shall have the German drummer here, speaking our language with the utmost effrontery in what he considers to be…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Japan and the War
Discussing the part taken by Japan in the war Baron Kato former Japanese Ambassador in London, declared that Europe had little real idea…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Portugal and the War
The action of Portugal in taking possession of all the German vessels interned in its ports was in itself a declaration of war. Consequently the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Allies After the War
After the war I would like to see an international conference at which all the Allied nations should be represented, for the purpose of considering how to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Clergy and the War
To say that while young doctors are needed for the work of their calling and skilled workers for their trades, the work of the clergy is so superfluous and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wounds in War. Scenes After a Big Battle
Between the fields of war in South Africa and in France, remarked Surgeon-General Sir Anthony Bowlby in a lecture in London on "Wounds in War," there…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The War. Verdun Battle. Attacks Resumed But Driven Back. the Germans Checked
The latest communique states:—The enemy's artillery northward of Verdun and the Woeuvre has greatly increased its activity along the whole front, chiefly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers. Sydney
Another transport arrived in Woolloomooloo Bay this morning. She had on board 107 returned soldiers for Sydney and 43 for Queensland. The vessel came from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Sentenced. Remarks by Judge Docker. Sydney
At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day Judge Docker, in sentencing a soldier to penal servitude, referred to a cable message, which made reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District. the Soldiers' Club
A meeting of the ladies committee of the Soldiers' Club was held at the school of arts in Thursday evening, when there was a good attendance, presided over by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About Returned Soldiers
Already the returned soldier is becoming a problem of sorts. A few of the less reputable of them are working the sympathy touch for more than it is…
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