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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 160
The "Standard" asks what Ireland intends to do in order to avoid creating a gulf not only between herself and Great Britain, but between herself and all the free nations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reuter's Capetown correspondent suites that General Botha has issued an eloquent public appeal addressed to "Fellow South Africans" to give the utmost response to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two laborers, Edward Daniels (22) and James Cowle (20), were before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court this morning, charged with having travelled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Resolutions have been framed by the Repatriation Commission, of which the Minister, Senator Millen, is chairman, for the new repatriation scheme to operate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reuter's Petrograd correspondent states that the ex-Czar's family, who have been receiving soldiers' rations, and several members of whom are consequently ill, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What do they really think of It? asks Max Pamberton in an English exchange. Not the red hats, mind you, nor C.O.'s in chateaux behind the lines: nor the brisk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mahlon Shaaber. called "Lincoln's Tall Soldier Boy," recently died. The sobriquet given to him. It is said, because of an experience during the Civil War in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"I am over sixty now, but I cannot forget that I was once twenty-one." Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd created this epigram when a representative of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PRIVATE BEBBINGTON.—Mrs. M. E. Bebbington, of 18 Railway-ts[?]eet, Cook's Hill, has been advised that her son. Private George Bebbington, was killed in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dean of Newcastle announces that on Anzac Day, April 25, there will be a special civic service in the Newcastle Cathedral at 12.15 p.m. This will be over by 1 o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It would be affection to pretend that the conditions in the Country before the war were such as could be regarded with satisfaction or contentment by any class,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further subscriptions to the war loan were announced at Newcastle yesterday, bringing Newcastle's contribution to date to about £185,000. The subscriptions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir.—Yesterday Mr. Ball and the writer interviewed the executive of the Miners' Association with a view to enlisting their aid in the matter of raising war bonds, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The war loan competition between Newcastle and Hobart has reached an exciting stage, with Hobart in the lead. This afternoon the barometer shows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is almost a platitude to say that this war grows bigger and bigger as it continues, and yet with the economic strain and other sorts, of strain the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A parcel mail for the expeditionary forces in France will close at Newcastle at 5 p.m. to-day. Letters, packets, and newspapers for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PRIVATE PARROTT.—Mrs. Wold, of 21 Newcomen-street, Newcastle, has received word that her son, Sapper C. Parrott, has been wounded and gassed. Sapper Parrott…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Applications for the sixth Commonwealth war loan will close on Wednesday. There is therefore only a short time in which those who are hesitating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Disease as a factor in the Army death-rate has almost been wiped out, completely so in the sense that the amount of sickness in the camps and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is reported from Amsterdam that Captain Persius, the German Naval writer, in the "Berliner Tageblatt," admits that the submarine war has largely failed. He…
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