War Service Homes. Inquiry in Newcastle
The Parliamentary Joint Committee of Public Accounts was occupied during the greater part of yesterday in the South Maitland district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1921
847 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 43
Irish Rebels. Attack on a Train. Seven Soldiers Killed. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Republicans attacked a train at Headford Junction (Kerry), killing an officer and six men of the Royal Fuslliers, and wounding twelve others. They also killed…
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Sir Joseph Cook, the Federal Treasurer explained this afternoon that £8,250,00[?] had been allocated to New South Wales and spent in eight months in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Appreciation of Mr. Hughes Mothers and Widows of Soldiers. Sydney
A remarkable demonstration of appreciation of and confidence in the Prime Minister by the mothers and widows of soldiers who have fallen at the front…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Adamstown Soldiers Monument and Homes Muinifcent Donations
Adamstown Soldiers' Memorial Committee met last night, the Mayor (Alderman Arthur) presiding, Mr. Brown (the secretary) reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →REPARATIONS Germany Refuses to Pay Fresh Trickery "Who Caused the War?" LONDON, Wednesday Night
Germany has refused to pay the £600,000,000 which represents the balance of reparations due on May 1…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Vicious Threats" Sir J. Cook's Retort Mr. Loughlin and Soldiers SYDNEY
"If Mr. Loughlin has some setae terrible visitations to Inflict upon the soldier settlements, all I can say is that it is cowardly and contemptible, and such…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Settlements. Sir Joseph Cook in Reply. Sydney
A reply was made to-day by Sir Joseph Cook, the Federal Treasurer, to Mr. Loughlin, State Minister for Lands, on the question of the financial side of soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Canteen Profits
The War Office Canteens Board, notwithstanding pressure from Australia House extending over several months, has failed to supply and estimate of Australia's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waratah War Trophy
The gun n Waratah Park is to be painted a navel grey. This will hide some of the scars received in action…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Reflections Valuable Scientific Devices
Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson, in the course of a lecture at the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, on "Some Reflections of the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Preference to Soldiers
The organisations formed for the protection of returned soldiers are particularly lively just now. They are actively engaged in insisting that the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Britain's Dead Soldiers
The Imperial War Graves Commission reports that of deaths approximating ones million, 617,000 bodies of British soldiers buried on the battlefields have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Belmont. Soldiers' Memorial Fair
The effort made on Saturday in aid of the fund for the erection of the soldiers' memorial hall was crowned with success. The literary institute and its grounds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Weapons of the Next War
Discussing the importance of the dye industry in Britain in relation to national defence, Dr. Levinstein, technical managing director of the British Dye Stuffs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Debts National Burdens Question of Cancellation
The question of the cancellation of the debts which the other Allies incurred with Great Britain and the United States during the prosecution…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Day Newcastle Arrangements
Newcastle Diggers are anxious to celebrate Anzac Day properly, and already arrangements are well in hand. To-morrow night a meeting will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Service Homes First Annual Picnic
The first annual picnic of the officers and employees of the War Service Homes Commission (Newcastle district), held at Toronto on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Book of the War. Lively Revelations
The Great War is likely to be much better chronicled than other wars, for the reason that in the millions who were swept into its maelstrom were scores of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War and Missions Posts Deserted Politics or Religion
Political shake-ups growing out of the world-war left many missionary posts deserted, and Christian leaders are seriously disturbed at the fact…
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