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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
3,188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 160
It is reported from Washington that the American casualties, in six days were 447. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states the America…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Official Press Bureau states that. with a view to avoiding serious delays, the Postmaster-General advises correspondents to address letters to the "Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The administration of the Newcastle Returned Soldiers' Association is to be altered as a result of representatives embodied in a report of the hon: auditors Messers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PRIVATE KAFER.—Mrs. Kafer, of Toronto, late of Carrington, has received information that her husband, Private Frederick Kafer, was admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Orchard, the Minister for Recruiting is arranging with school conductors for the children to light bonfires in all schools at 7.30 p.m. on Anzac Day, in celebration…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The loan which is now on the market is reported to be going rather badly. Of course there is no official statement to this effect, and as the Treasurer always takes up the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—The success of the war loan campaign indicates that the people of Australia realise that the war can be more speedily brought to a conclusion by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During the long history of this country there has been no important scheme propounded which has met with such vigorous opposition as the project for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Watt, the Federal Treasurer, announced to-day that subscriptions to the war loan now total £38,000,000. No further announcement will be made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The war is reducing itself in part to a trial of strength and endurance between the civilian population of the different nations. The civilian population of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—At the meeting attended by the Mayors of the district municipalities. Presidents of shires, and others, for the purpose of considering the scheme under the Repatriation Act, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The grievance of the Newcastle returned soldier who went to Sydney to meet his English bride and met only with a chain of ill-luck, is calculated to arouse mixed feelings among the Australian women who read it in "The Newcastle Sun" the other day. The complaint was directed more at an "officialdom" which obliged him to keep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Daily Express" correspondent at Geneva reports that Field-Marshal Hindenburg has been confined to hospital at Strassburg, owing to a slight wound, due…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War assumed in ages past a romance it had not, because the facts were falsified by historians and other non-combatants theorists without personal experience of its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An early visitor to Farmer's this morning was Mr. E. J. Coote. of the firm of, Angus and Coote, who bought £10,000 worth of war loan bonds. Farmer's have several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The tank went to Hamilton, Lambton, and Wallsend on Saturday morning, and sold £180 worth of bonds. The final appeal from the tank was made to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American Consul in Melbourne furnishes the following wireless message received from Honolulu: "President Wilson has appointed W. H. Taft and F. P. Walsh…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord Derby, Secretary of State, for War, made a vigorous defence in an address to members of the Aldwych Club, a body lately favored with much oratory by people of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trustees of the Manchester Unity independent Order of Oddfellows in New South Wales have invested £110,000 in the War Loan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Loan figures have been published but what of the cheers? In referring to the American Liberty Loans, our critics used such words as…
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