War Savings Week
The National War Savings Week is an excellent idea. All of us must do our best in that week, beginning on July 16. to help the nation. "If you cannot fight…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1916
2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 71 of 130
The War. Rumania's Decision. World-wide Excitement. War Will Be Shortened. Central Powers Doomed. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
There was a momentous Crown Council in Bucharest, capital of Rumania, on Sunday night, at which MM. Marghiloman, Carp, Magorescu, Rositti, Filpescu, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldiers on Final Leave
Sir,—Many of the men in the Miners' Reinforcements at present in a certain camp in another State are miners from different districts in Now South Wales, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Railway Fares
Although the question of the payment of railway fares by members of the expeditionary forces has been under discussion for many months, it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Rumania's Advance. Fighting on the Danube and Transylvanian Alps. (Australian Cable Association.) BUCHAREST
Austrian monitors and batteries bombarded the towns of Verci and Crova ate the Iron Gates (in the Danube); also Turnu, Soverin, and Glurgevo, where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Votes for Soldiers. Sydney
The State Government has definitely decided to give soldiers at the front or on their way to the front a voting interest in the forthcoming election…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers. Association Meeting
The annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association was held at the Soldiers' Club on Tuesday night, Mr. S. Dark, the president,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Sydney Letter. an Inspiriting Position.—war Profits.—a Lesson From New Zealand.—helping Belgium.—the State Aviation School.—youthful Heroes.—the State Colliery. Sydney
"Are we down-hearted? No!" Apart from other things Italy has come in more thoroughly and Rumania "backed the winning horse." This expression is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded in Action
Mr. L. Vickery, of the Horseshoe Bend, West Maitland, was yesterday informed by the Base Records Office, Melbourne, that his son. Private Raymond Vickery, had been wounded in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Badges Sydney
Mr. Holman, the State Premier recently communicated with the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth suffering that bronze or other medals he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War and Shipping
A special tally on the destruction of shipping during the war is being kept by the New York "Journal of Commerce." At the beginning of July this authority…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Council in Vienna. Zurich
A war council has been summoned at Vienna to consider Rumanian's entry into the war. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is to attend the council…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in a Storm. Prussians Surrender London
Mr. Philip Gibbs, in a message to the "Daily Chronicle," gives a vidid description of a storm seen from a vantage point overlooking Pozieres ridge and Thiepval…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Rumanian Attack Progressing Well. Invasion of Hungary. (Australian Cable Association.) BUCHAREST
The latest Rumanian communique states:—The Rumanians crossed the frontier on Sunday night. There was lively lighting in many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rumania's Coup. Spies All Deceived. Suddenness of the War. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Only meagre accounts of the early Rumanian successes have been received. London has not even received the Rumanian account of the capture of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murrumbidgee Irrigation. Farms for Returned Soldiers. Sydney
The Irrigation Commission has been giving attention to the question of providing irrigation farms for returned soldiers, and has set aside a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Euclid of War
The "Lyonian," the organ of the Lower School at Harrow, has the following propositions in the current issue:— A subaltern is one who has position but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland District. Miners and the War. Patriotic Levy Resisted
An interesting cruse, arising out of the refusal of a miner to lily a compulsory levy imposed by a majority of the members of his lodge, at a meeting, in favour of a patriotic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Germany Frightened. Lest America Joins the War. New York
Herr von Weigand, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," says that the German despatch to America announcing that there will not be recourse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Austrian Retreat. Allies Advancing Through Transylvania. Command of the Danube. Marching on Bulgaria. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Though Bucharest telegrams are much delayed. Rome and Petrograd messages insist that there were splendid results from the Rumanian attacks…
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