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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 63 of 130
It is officially announced that the Russians under General Sakaroff, have captured the town of Brody, on the northern borders of Galicia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The question of the hour is the people have responded. This War Loan has got to be subscribed. Tuesday will be the last day for sending…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lieutenant Hogarth, of the Field Artillery, formerly of Toowoomba, has been billed in action…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman Moroney the Mayor of Newcastle, has convened a meeting to be held in the council chambers on Friday evening next to mark the second…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New York newspapers, in lengthy reviews of the two years of war, emphasise the relatively strong position of the Allies as compared with a year ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The subscription list in connection with the third instalment of the Commonwealth war loan will close to-day. The for and second instalments were each…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The enemy is concentrating at Kovel. The battle now developing is becoming the most fierce of the campaign. The battle of Kovel threatens the entire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. W. E. Johnson, a member of the Australian House of Representatives, has been slightly wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There was a great rush all day at the Commonwealth Bank, in connection with the War Loan, but no information will be available until to-morrow, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A new England is being born out of the travail of war; and a new British Empire, too, whose relations with the Mother country will be sensibly different when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Women's labour could be far more extensively used than it is at present, says a London paper. In gas and electricity works there are still between 25,000 and 30,000 men of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Although the Germans are stubbornly resisting about five and a half miles west of the River Stokhod, on the road to Kovel, Russian balloon observers regard…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An interesting ceremony took place in the Minister's room of the Lands Department this afternoon, when the first practical results of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Higgs, the Federal Treasurer, has issued the following approximation of the war loan:— The total subscription was £20,569,400…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports from the press tug says that the Deutschland passed Annapolis last evening, running at fourteen knots. She is expected to reach a favourable point…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The latest communique states: A German rush attack at Smoliary, reached the west bank of the Stokhod, but was repulsed with heavy losses. The battle is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Lambton Patriotic Committee is extending its influence in the direction of perpetuating the memories of the volunteers from the town by the erection of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting of ladies convened by Mrs. R. G. Kilgour was held at the Newcastle Soldiers' Club on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of forming a committee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The July successes are only the commencement of the new era which will assure the triumph of the Allies. The task may yet be long and hard,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When Mr. Higgs, the Federal Treasurer, put his war loan of £50,000,000 on the Australian market, he admitted that he was asking for more than he…
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