Notes on News. London, December 31. Labour and War Aims
Labour has spoken out strongly on the subject of war aims. A conference representating over three millions of workers has adopted almost unanimously the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1918
3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 160
Easy Money Features of the War Loan Points for Wage-Earners
In a few minutes' conversation with Mr. G. A. Ball, Newcastle manager for the Commonwealth Bunk, one is not only convinced that is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Must Stick It Out Australia and the War New Governor's Appeal
The Governor, Sir Walter Davidson, was the guest of honour at a luncheon by the insitute of Journalists in Sydney yesterday. He made a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Postal Information Soldiers Mail on
Malls close at the Newcastle Post Office as follows:—MONDAY—Expeditionary forces France and England (newsnaner and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Comforts for Soldiers New Lambton Girls Effort
On Wednesday evening a concert and dance was held at New Lambton, under the auspices of the Girls' Patrioce League, to raise to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dead Land. What Germans Have Done. the Kaiser's Wilderness. Australian War Correspondent, C. E. W. Bean. (Copyright Reserved by the Crown.)
He was an ordinary peace-loving, kindly Australian, father of a small family of little girls, who far away in Australia were asking their mother, "Will daddy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Casualties. Wounded
PRIVATE M'DONALD.—Mr. J. M'Donald, of Close-street, Wallsend, has been advised that his son, Private S. R. M'Donald was admitted on the 17th January to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Expenditure
The total war expenditure of this country is mounting now to a figure that oven the worst of the pessimists at the beginning of the war would have ridiculed as impossible…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Chest Fund
At the last monthly meeting of the depot executive committee, Mrs. Harker, president, was in the chair. The report of the work done was pronounced satisfactory, the rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lloyd-george and the War
Answering the charge that the Government favoured beer as against bread, Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the Free Church Conference, quoted the reduction…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melbourne Gossip. State War Council. Melbourne, March 13
Senator Millen, as Minister for Repatriation, would seem to have made a bad break in his arrangements respecting the Victorian State War Council. Hitherto that body has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →City and District Matters. To-night: Starr-Bowkett appropriations. Taking the War Seriously
Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, president of the New South Wales Alliance, has recently visited Canada and America. The object of is visit wits to regain his health, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hamilton Soldiers
The Hamilton Soldiers' Presentation and Welcome Home Committee Intend holding a concert on Thursday next. Another 40 medals will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Libelling Soldiers Gaol Sentence Follows VANCOUVER
A message from Toronto states that Captain George Bailey, a medical officer, who recently told the Prohibition Convention that a large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merewether Soldiers Returned Men Entertained a Lone Pine Hero
On Saturday night the Merewether Beach Welcome Home and Send-off Committee tendered a welcome to four returned soldiers. There was a large attendance at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac Institute Support
"Arcsa" writes:—At considerable expense to the movers a Soldiers' Club (Anzac Institute) has been established in Perkin-street. There is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Slogans
Can the Kaiser Tin the Teut! Pickle the Prussian! Brice the Brute!…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain's War Pensions
The British expenditure on war pensions in 1917-18 amounted to £23,000,000, covering 633,000 cases. The expenditure in 1918-19 will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trotsky Talks of War
Messages form Mr. Francis, the former American Ambassador to petrograd, state that M. Trotsky is considering the organising of the army "under iron discipline,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Photographs of Fallen Collection for War Museum
Photographs of the men who have fallen on active service, and of others who have won awards and decoration for gallantry in the firing line, are to be collected by…
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