The Spanish War
A Madrid telegram announces that an official report from Morocco states that the Spanish troops have entered Shespuan…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1924
574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 29
The Moving Picture Show War Horror Passes
A year ago the pessimists were telling us that future wars would be nightmares of horrors, beside which the Great War would pale into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Planes for Riffs Spanish War Order Declined London
A Scottish agent at Abdelerim approached the Supermanine Aviation Company and offered £54,000 in cash for six bombing 'planes. He…
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A message from Shanghai states that Lotion, six miles from Liuho, is in flames. Part of the city has been burned down…
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The galleries were crowded for the Assembly of the League of Nations' full-dress debate on the Disarmament Protocol, on which seventeen members…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Troops on Strike Chinese Government Army Unreliable Soldiers or Bandits ? Further Successes for General Chang Tso Lin's Men MUKDEN
There is increasing evidence [?]t at the Chinese Government forces are unreliable and that the leaders have little control over them. Civilians are nervous, fearing that the troops which are supposed to be defending Pekin man turn their backs on the enemy and loot the…
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The Federal Auditor-General's report for 1923-24 was presented to the House of Representatives to-day. It states that the losses on the War Service…
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Just at present New Zealand is having a big wash-up in connection with losses made by placing soldiers upon the land. The Government was pressed into this…
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The explanation afforded by Mr. Bruce of the protocol which has been agreed to by the Assembly of the League of Nations confirms the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Riff War Peace Now In Sight Spanish Offer London
The "Daily Mail's" Madrid correspondent states that there is a prospect of an early termination of the Biff war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Polycletan Beats David in the Last Few Yards of the Metropolitan Tragedy in Street Woman Found Dead Husband Wounded Auckland
A domestic tragedy last night resulted in the death of Mrs. James Simpkin from a terrible ranger wound. Her husband was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese War Heavy Fighting Chang Tso Lin Advances (Australian Cable Association.) SHANGHAI
Heavy fighting has broken out at Sungkiang, 22 miles south-west of Shanghai. The Fukien-Kiangsu troops are attacking. The Liuho-Hwangtu…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inadequate Defence Returned Soldiers Alarmed PERTH
Alarm at the "Inadequate measures taken" by the Commonwealth Government for the defence of Australia was expressed at the Returned…
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C. Craig (27). a married man of Church-street, Stockton, who is a carter employed by Hawkins, Ltd., was handling iron at F. ASh's Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidentally Shot Himself. Youth Wounded in Forehead
William Wrightson, a youth, aged 18 years, was cleaning a pea-rifle at his home, Sydney-road, Broadmeadow, at eleven o'clock last night, when a cartridge in…
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A message from Mukden states that Marshal Chang Tso Lin's headquarters reports that part of the third brigade under General Chang Tsung Chang, cut…
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A telegram from Shanghai reports that General Sun Chuang Fang has captured Sungkiang, twenty-two miles south-west of Shanghai. The Chekiang troops…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Why David Ran Crippled Soldier's Ticket SYDNEY
William Booth, trainer of David, stated after the Spring Stakes on Saturday that David would not start in the Metropolitan, and an…
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It is reported from Tientsin that Government troops yesterday morning made an attack on the Shanghai-Kuan front. A big engagement is proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Whose Hand? Gruesome Discovery at Weston Is It War Memento? Police Discredit the Possibility of a Crime
Newcastle and cessnock police busy to-day endeavouring to solve the mystery of the human hand unearthed near a house on the Weston soldiers settlement late yesterday afternoon. The possibility of the discovery having any relation to a criminal…
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