Soldiers' Benevolent Fund
Mr. C. A. Earp, President of the Newcastle District Memorial Institute Distressed Sailor and Soldiers and benevolent Fund, has received from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1929
830 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 42
War Appeal Tribunals
Mr. Bruce, the Prime Minister, stated yesterday that an error had been made in his announcement in regard to the salaries of the chairmen of the War…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →May Day Riots in Berlin Six Dead; 80 Wounded Communists and Police (Australian Press Association.) BERLIN
May Day celebrations were marked by riotous scenes in Berlin. The actual casualties are not known, but, as far as could be ascertained at midnight, six men had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DISMISSED Scotland Yard Men Sudden Swoop War Office Secrets Betrayed LONDON
Following on a communication from the War Office regarding the leakage of very confidential Information to associates of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For Blind Soldiers Kensington Man's Will SYDNEY
Two-thirds of his estate for the Returned Soldiers League for the sole benefit for the sole blinded returned soldiers, and the remaining third for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tug-of-war
A tug-of-war will be bulled at J. Maisey's Criterion Hotel, Wickham, this afternoon by teams limited to five members. Post entries will be received at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Waif and War Ministers
Stephen Walsh, whose death has aroused widespread regret, was an example of the dominance of personality. No man ever owned less to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Afghan War Heavy Casualties Calcutta
A dramatic struggle for the Afghan Throne has begum Amanullah's and Baceha Sakdun's armies clashed near Ghaznie…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Settlement
Mr. Booth, M.L.A., has been informed by the Minister for Education that, after perusal of a report which has been submitted to him regarding the establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Hopes Reparations Row War Debts London
A completely new turn has been taken in the Reparations discussion as the result of a conversation between the chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Materials Determining Reserves Discussion at Geneva Geneva
The Geneva Disarmament Commission on Friday discussed the method whereby reserves of war material should be determined, Germans, Russians, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Casualties Guerilla Warfare in Berlin 25 Dead; Over 200 Wounded Drastic Suppression of Rioters (Australian Press Association) BERLIN
Guerilla warfare, which followed the May Day disturbances in Berlin, continued on Thursday and Friday. Yesterday, however, as the result of the drastic measures adopted by the police to suppress the Communists, conditions in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Talkie" War Is Australia Involved ? German Patents Sound Film Competition LONDON
Will Australia be involved in the "Talkie" war? FOLLOWING the postponement of three German film inventors the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Era. For War-Weary World Peace Hopes Reparations—Disarmament LONDON
The evacuation of the Rhincland, the readjustment of reparations and reductions in naval and military armaments, are foreshadowed in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TUG-O'-WAR Blast Furnace Team Beaten
Tug-o-war [?] have been revived at [?] Saturday a pumber of [?] land near the wool [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shot in Bed Remanded Man Badly Wounded He Won't Tell Attack Follows Darlinghust Brawl SYDNEY
Released cr[?] 3 a.m. to-day after a fierce melee in Eatonavenue, Darlinghurst, Phillip Jeffs, known as "Phil the Jew," was found in a semi-conscious condition near his home at South Kensington three hours later suffering from two wounds which may result In his death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"FIZZLING!" Resistance to Price-cutting Bread War Bakers' Shortage of "Munitions'
"Newcastle bakers' heroic resistance of the cash and carry grocery shop price-cutting seems to be fizzling into an anticlimax," says the "Australasian Bakers and Millers' Journal," the official organ of the master bakers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Appeal Board
The personnel of the Returned Soldiers' Pensions Appeal Board has not yet been completed, although Sir Neville Howse, the Minister for Repatriation, visited…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gangs Clash Stealthy Underworld War Cocaine Blamed Alarming Growth of Illegal Traffic SYDNEY
Furtive shadows—a shot—and a man badly wounded. There is stealthy war in the underworld. Police do not have to delve deeply or think long to find the cause for this clash between gang-leaders…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hope Reigns Settling Cost of the War Parley Still on Empire Won't Forfeit a Penny LONDON
Hopefullness that a settlement will eventually be reached, despite the confusion that survives, following the abandonment of the reparation plans of Mr. Owen Young (U.S.A.), chairman of the Experts Committee, is the feeling that prevails in British…
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