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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 130
The speeches delivered by Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia. Sir George Raid, M.P., Sir George Foster (Canadian Minister for Trade and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following is the latest communique:— The village of Gruziatine changed hands several times. We raided the village yesterday, capturing 400 of the enemy. Heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Up to June 15 the enlistments in the Dominion of Canada totalled 340,000 men. The recruiting campaign is bringing in men at the rate of 500 daily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chains are worse than bayonets.—Douglas Jerrold. LAUGH AND GROW—VICTORIOUS. So long as we can laugh, Germany can…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There are certain things for which all countries invariably decline to be dependent on their neighbours. Nobody ever suggested that we should be wise to depend…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →As a result of the war we intend to establish the principle that international problems must be handled by tree negotiation on equal terms between free…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Labour, except for on insignificant minority, is for the war; and it is not too much to say that without its co-operation neither this war nor any other war…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Church at this crisis cannot be like a dumb dog. We mu[?]e this war through, and there mus[?]no listening for a moment to foolish and shortsighted…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →In delivering his award to-day in the dispute between the Mining Employers' Association and the Oswald Gold Miners' Association, Mr. Justice Powers, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Daily Chronicle" says that it is almost certain that Mr. Lloyd George will accept the portfolio of Minister for War. The official announcement is not likely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Excellent progress is being made with the arrangement for war chest Button Day on Friday next, and much enthusiasm is being shown. Miss Dora Sparke and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Sir Douglas Haig reports:— The enemy exploded an exceptionally large mind at Givenchy, just north of the La Bassee Canal, on Thursday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By the occupation of Gurahumura, General Lechitsky jammed a portion of General von Pflanzer's right wing against the Roumanian frontier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A batch of sick and wounded Australian soldiers—224 for New South Wales, and 44 for Queensland—arrived in Sydney this morning by hospital ship. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is notified that No. 1748, Private A. H. Day, 4th Battalion, has been reported as a casualty, but all efforts to trace his next of kin, as recorded, Mr. Day, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"How do the Germans do it?" ask friends and foes alike. According to E. A. 'Langdon, in "The Automobile," the Teutonic successes in Poland were the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Chief Secretary's Department has received advice from the Acting Prime Minister that war pensioners are permitted to draw their pensions and receive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Professor C. W. Eliot, of Harvard University, has sent to the Boston "Herald" a letter in which he argues that the future safety of the United States can only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A communique says:— We carried a redoubt by a coup do main three versts south of Zminy, on the Styr. We bayoneted the garrison after a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killingworth Institute Hall was crowded on Saturday night, when the local patriotic committee tendered a send-off to another batch of eleven recruits to join our…
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