Charges Against War Office
LONDON. Friday.—The Earl of Derby (Secretary of State for War). has ordered an inquiry into the Cook case…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
3,607 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 181
Kurri War Service Committee
The Kurri Kurri War Service Committee will meet at the School of Arts tomorrow morning. Important business is to be considered—notably…
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General Belaieff has been appointed Minister for War in Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Federal War Loan. Appeal by the Treasurer. Melbourne
Many Australians do not seem to realise that the recruiting appeal now being made throughout the Commonwealth is two-sided. Not only are men needed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Russia's Attack. Germans Overwhelmed. Surrender Wholesale. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that General Dimitrieff's surprise attack on the eve of the Russian Christmas almost recaptured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Loan. New Conditions of Capital and Labour. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressing 4000 people in St. Andrew's Hall, in Glasgow, made a stirring appeal to Scotsmen to support the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Aid Society. Cessnock Annual Meeting
Resentment is expressed by members of the cessnock Returned Soldiers' Aid Society at the proposal of the State War Council to contiscale…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cook's Hill Soldier Honoured
Corporal Harald ("Snowy") Bay has been awarded the military medal for bravery on the battlefield. This gratifying information is contained in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' Sports
Judging from the promises of support received, the sports carnival to be held on the Sports Ground, Newcastle, on Saturday next, the 27th inst, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Our Soldiers' Graves. London
Presiding over the Soldiers' Graves Committee, the Prince of Wales stated that 15,000 graves were registered in France and Belgium. Sixty of 400 burial grounds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded in Action
Mr. G. H. Trevallion of Estell Street, Maryville has received a cable message from his son, N.W. Trovallion (Witta), notifying that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Win-the-war League
The New South ales Recruiting Committee has Issued the following appeal :—The formation of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →America's War Exports. London
German newspapers state that the United States from August. 1914, to September, 1916, have shipped to the Allies £394,000,000 worth of war material, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Loan. Large Subscriptions. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The subscriptions to the War Loan are mostly new money. The North-eastern Railway Company has subscribed £2,000,000, the Edinburgh…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. the West Front. British Raids. Carried Out Satisfactorily. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We carried out a successful raid eastward of St. Elol. There was considerable artillery fire on both sides,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Land for Returned Soldiers
Speaking at Tighe's Hill on Saturday night, Mr. Keating, president of the Friendly Societies' Association, said that the societies had made a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Family of Soldiers
All the sons of Mr. and Mrs. James Clark, of Morpeth, with one exception, have enlisted and two of them have been wounded in France quite recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British War Loan
LONDON, Monday.—Deposits in London banks increased during 1916 from £779,000,000 to £900,000,000 this showing that there is a vast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Socialists and War
PARIS, Monday.—M. Albert Thomas (Minister of Munitions) stated to-day that the Socialist party, which laboured before the war to organise…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian War Loan
PETROGRAD, Monday.—Russia has established 115 saving banks at the various fronts in order to encourage soldiers to subscribe to her war loan…
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