Empire War Unity—and After. (Australian Cable Association.)
LONDON, Friday.—Addressing the Imperial Mission Section of the Tariff Reform League on the promotion of Imperial unity. Sir Joseph Ward…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
3,607 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 181
Control of Shipping. a Win-the-war Policy. Australia Leads the World Melbourne
The following statement regarding the control of shipping by the Commonwealth Government is issued by Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →America Arming. Great War Preparations Resolution Passed. in the House of Representatives Washington, Friday, 3.5 a.m
The war resolution has been passed by the House of Representatives. A state of war against Germany will be formally declared to-day…
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LONDON, Friday.—A Petrograd telegram from Mr. Wilton states that 4,000 delegates will attend the Soldiers and Workman's Council. Every…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Notes from France. a West Wallsend Soldier
Private Alf. Searl, of "Ladysmith," West Wallsend, writing to his parents from the French war front, says that he was out of the trenches for a time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Loyal to Duma
PARIS, Friday.—The Petrograd correspondent of "Le Petit Paris[?]en" states that the Duma has received a deputation from troops at the front…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America's War
President Wilson's war preparations appear to be characteristically thorough. He was thorough to the verse of exasperating the world as well as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Underside of War
"The crest of the wave of war may be white with the splendour of sacrifice; but below, in its black depths, dark and dreadful things are astir…
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Although Germany has already brought eleven nations into the war against her, while China has broken off diplomatic relations, it is now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cuba Declares State of War
HAVANA, Sunday.—The Cuban Senate unanimously declared a State of war between Cuba and Germany. [Cuba is practically under the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War and Death. Abolish Funerals and Cemeteries
A curious and interesting fruit of the war is the change than has come over the ideas of thousands in all countries concerning death and its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →America's War Victims, 300 Perish at Sea
Three hundred Americana at least, probably more, have lost their lives through German and Austrian submarines while travelling on unarmed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tighe's Hill Soldiers
The president of the Tighe's Hill and Mayfield Military Presentation Committee (Mr. R. Little) comments strongly on the laxity of relatives of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bar to Enlistment Removed
WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The U.S. entry into the war will enable Britishers in the United States to enlist in the British army, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Surgeon's Work. Among Maimed Soldiers
The following is extracted from the letter of an officer in the Australian " Army Medical Corps to a friend in Melbourne (says the "Argus"). The writer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Courage of Soldiers
For rather more than eighteen months our citizen soldiers have been facing what seems to be regarded as the greatest test of nerves that has ever been set…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Casualties. Killed in Action
PRIVATE BRIGHT.—Mrs. O'Neal, of Cook's Hill, has received word from Mrs. Bright, of New Zealand, stating that her son, Private Norman Bright, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Feeling. in South America. Allied War Council. (Australian Cable Association.) WASHINGTON
Reports indicate a desire for war in Brazil, Peru, Chill, Uruguay, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. The attitude of the Argentine is doubtful…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America in War. Capacity to Aid
The American people are rapidly passing from a perilous stage, that of neutrality of fooling, of unconcern and indifference, says the New York "Outlook."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labour and the War. Australian Party's Cable
(Reuter's Cable.) LONDON, Monday.—Presiding at the Independent Labour party's annual conference at Leeds, Mr. Jowett, M.P., said that the casualties in the…
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