Dangers to Soldiers
LONDON. Thursday.—The Executive Council for combating venereal diseases, of which committee Lord Sydenham is president, has written…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
3,607 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 181
The State Policy. New Arbitration Scheme. a Strike Ballot. Generous Help for Soldiers. Post-borrowing Justified. Amending Land Legislation
Last evening Mr. Holman announced the policy of the National Government in an address delivered at Gundagai. Dealing first with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →East-end Soldiers. London
Mr. Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, opened a temperance club at Poplar, financed by an anonymous benefactor. In the memory of men from the…
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CORPORAL ELBOURNE.—Mrs. J. M'Fadyen, of Hamilton has arrived word that her nephew. Corporal E. E. Elbourne of Clarencetown has been killed in action…
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Mr. Poynton, the Federal Treasurer, was a happy man on Friday last when he learnt that his war loan had been more than subscribed. It has apparently…
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Arrangements have been made to accommodate the overseas members of the War Conference at the Savoy Hotel. The first meeting will be held at the…
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Lord Curzon, the President of the Council, replying in the House of Lords to the criticism of the multiplication of officials in the departments, pleaded that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miscellaneous. British War Loan. Rush by Subscribers
LONDON, Friday.—Extraordinary scenes occurred on the last day for the subscriptions to the War Loan. The City was invaded by thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Empire War Council. Need for Mr. Hughes
LONDON, Friday.—Sir J. A. cockburn, speaking at the City of London Tradesmen's Club, declared that there is a sinister movement on foot to hold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miscellaneous. British War Lean Success. Cataract of Millions
LONDON, Friday.—Financial experts believe that the British War Load Fortnight" has been an immensely greater success than the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Friendly Societies and the War. Strain of Finances. No Candidates of Military Age
At the annual meeting of the Hunter District of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows, held in Newcastle to-day, the report of the district…
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London made a splendid final effort to awaken laggards to a sense of their duty to the War Loan. All the newspapers devoted much space…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. (Continued from Page 1.) This Afternoon's Cables Huns' Vain Hope. Terrerisation of the World. (Published in "The Times.")
PARIS, Friday.—The members of Mr. Gerald's party are talking frankly in Paris. "Le Matin" publishes an account of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Help for Blind Soldiers. a Novelists Letter
The eminent French playwright and propagandist, Eugene Bricux, has conceived the happy idea of constituting himself a special godfather to all the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Honouring a Free Gardener. a Returned Soldier
Captain E. T. Harnett, who lately returned from active service in Gallipoli and France, was entertained by the Tansy Lodge of the Grand United…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wickham and Linwood Soldiers
A welcome, home is to be extended at the Wickham School of Arm to-nigh to eight soldiers of Wickham and and Linwood, who have returned from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Emigration of Soldiers. London
The Press Bureau states that Mr. Walter Long, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has appointed a committee of twenty-five to report on measures for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Washington Outlook Merchant Shipping Congestion Decisive Sea Battle Threatened On the Verge of War. Fact Accepted at Washington. (Published In "The Times.")
WASHINGTON, Friday.—Pessimism prevails here. It is realised that President Wilson is being impelled towards intervention, and it is fell…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Casualties. Killed in Action
CORPORAL MULLEN.—Mr. and Mrs. Mullen, of Cardiff, have received, word, through the Rev. F. J. Beeman, of New Lambton, that their son, Corporal S. D…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Wallsend and Plattsburg. Oddfellows' Honour Roll
A Roll of Honour, in recognition of the member of the Prince of Wales' Lodge, M.U.O.C.F., was unvelled in the mechanics' institute yesterday afternoon, by Deputy…
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