The War. on the Meuse. Germans Fail. with Enormous Losses. Paris
The latest communique states: A strong enemy attack near H[?] 287 was completely repulsed. We took some elements of a German trench west of Morthomme. We…
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 41 of 130
Interstate Labour Conference. Soldiers' Pay. Melbourne
The Interstate Labour Conference adopted a resolution calling on the Federal Government to increase the pay of privates to 10s per day, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded Queenslanders
Alderman Moroney, the Mayor of Newcastle, has been advised that 217 invalided Queensland soldiers will be leaving Sydney for Brisbane to-morrow afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Anzac Band
Under the auspices of the Newcastle branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, the Anzac Paned will visit Newcastle next week. The full programme is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Office Resignation
Major-General Sodden Long, who has resigned the post of Director of Supplies and Transports, is regarded as one of the best organisers in the army. He had held…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Last War?
Yet some men say that this is "nothing to what it will be." Captain Fortescue for instance, of whom we have read before, says that some day men will fight in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An After-war Problem
Next to the winning of the war, the most important problem that we have to face is the economic one. There will be little use in defeating the Germans new…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Churches After the War
I look forward after the war to the Church and Conconformist bodies being brought closer together…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Lesson of the War
War has taught us that the essential thing for a nation is the power to produce commodities. That power depends upon the industry, energy, and enterprise of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Our New Zealand Letter Wellington, May 4. War Bonuses to Workers
The Government have at length yielded in a measure to the demand of the second division railwaymen for an increase of is per day. The A.S.R.S demanded an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. on the West Front. Enemy Raids Successfully Combated. Paris
The latest communique of states:âThe enemy violently bombarded our positions in the Bois de Caillette and the second lines on the right bank of the Mouse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Discharged Soldiers
Very useful work is being done by a department established some months age for the purpose of aiding discharged soldiers to get buck into civilian life. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Soldier
There appears to be an idea prevalent in foreign countries that the Briton is a stolid and phlegmatic person, without Imagination or humour, and, indeed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 12. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) Charges Against Soldiers
William Russell (25), soldier, was charged with using improper language in Bolton-street, with unlawfully assaulting Richard Ernest Evans, and with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germans Burn Their Dead. Soldiers Who Are "Missing."
From Armsterdam comes a report (writes a "Central News' " correspondent on March 14), vouched for by "a Belgian gentleman, a resident of Scraing, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldiers and Public Meetings. Sydney
To-day's district orders contain a paragraph which sets out that it has been reported that at a meeting recently held, soldiers in uniform removed from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War's Terrors. Vivid Pen Pictures
An American officer, writing in the New York "Times," describes the effect of new inventions which have added to war's terrors. He says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Western Front. War Correspondent's Lecture
Mr. Harry Gullett, official Australian correspondent on the Western war front, lectured to a fairly large audience at the Central Hall on Saturday night on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Socialist Appeal. to Stop the War Amsterdam
In his May Day appeal to the workers, Dr. Lie[?]knecht summoned them to no longer tolerate the hell of war and the crime of human butchery. He said they were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. German Defeats. Their Attacks Futile. Losses Mounting Up. Paris
The latest communique states:—We made further progress in the night, in the vicinity of Hill 27. The enemy's renewed attacks were…
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