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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 130
Unless they have passed out to the sound of the Last Post since the declaration, there are five old gentlemen who may foregather on the 29th instant, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Federal Government intend asking everyone in receipt of an income of more than £300 a year of subscribe to the War Loan. A circular has been printed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"The cost of the war is about £5,000,000 a day, or £1,800,000,000 a year, against a total national income of £2,400,000,000. The enormous significance of these figures…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The latest Russian communique states: The enemy in Galicia, east of Czernovitz, suffered such losses as a result of our blow, and were so…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lieutenant J. Rutledge, of the Field Artillery, a New Zealander, has been wounded in France…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South African war expenses amount to £1,000,000 per month…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Council of New South Wales had added its voice to that of the Federal Government, and urged an immediate and whole-hearted response to War Loan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The latest communique states:—In the Champagne fights of the most violent nature continue between the Mesnil and Courtine Heights…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brigadier-General George Wyndham Chichester Knatchbull, who has been wounded at the Dardanelles, is a son of Lieutenant-General Reginald E…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During last year Professor G. C. Henderson, M.A. (Oxon.), Professor of History at the Adelaide University, delivered upwards of thirty lectures in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first Trades Fair which was promoted by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce had a great influence in directing the attention of the people…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Now that winter is upon London, and night creeps upon so at four in the afternoon—to say naught of the heavy logs that often shroud the city all day—it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The second reading of the Compulsion Bill has bean carried in the House of Commons. Mr. Anderson's motion for its rejection was negatived by 431 to 39…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Methodist Church, Kurri Kurri, has on its roll of honour no less than forty-six names of young men who have enlisted. A large number of friends assembled…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—I am again forced to write regarding railway pa[?]ses for soldiers. If in the event of my over being prosecuted for travelling to my home for not paying my…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Newcastle branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia has installed a roll of honour in the office of the union at the Newcastle Trades Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There was a large attendance at the Soldiers' Club, Newcastle, last night, on the occasion of a welcome home tendered by the ladles' committee of the club to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amid the dally tragedies of the trenches the British soldier finds time for the circulation of grimly humorous stories. One of the best of these stories concerns the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members of some of the district committees which have been appointed in connection with the scheme to raise the new army of 50,000 men have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Respecting the £10,000,000 war loan, Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, is asking us to stand by the Commonwealth Government. Quite right…
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