Britain Builds Most Powerful Airships of War France Buys 'Planes for Her Navy Public Exhibition London
The world's most powerful fighting aircraft will be included among several new types of machines to be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1931
983 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 50
Soldiers' Pensions Deputation to Treasurer CANBERRA
The Treasurer (Mr. E. G. Theodore) to-night received a deputation representing the Limbless and T.B. Associations, which asked that the Government should…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Farmers Combating "Milk War" West Maitland Meeting
Representatives of the metropolitan and suburban area dairymen met delegates of the Maitland and district dairymen at West Maitland last night to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A War Story Lord Birkenhead's Arrest Bonar Law and Generals London, June 17
Lord Beaverbrook, in the "Daily Express," tells the story of the late Lord Birkenhead's arrest in 1916, and how he drove a motor car from Boulogne to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Professor's Defence of War 'Nature's Pruning Hook' He Declares Evolutionary History London
SEATED in his room at the Royal College of Surgeons, Professor Arthur Keast to-day replied to the criticisms of his remarkable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pershing Talks of War How America Won the Battle! British Press Comment London
"As far as the land battle was concerned, the crisis was ended before the Americans' presence was felt," says the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. James's Protest Soldiers' Pension Cuts
"Assure members of the League that I will strenuously oppose the Government policy regarding pension cuts." This message was received…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldiers' Committee to Devise Way to Avoid Pension Cuts Prime Minister's Offer Accepted Must Report July 2 CANBERRA
In moving the adjournment of the House until Tuesday, Mr. Scullin said that, in addition to the Debts Conversion Bill, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain's War Pictures
Britain's glorious military history is now portrayed at the Guildhall Gallery in a line collection of battle prints and of curios connected with our military history. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Historian Attacks Kitchener
The surprising criticism that Lord Kitchener's "capacity for disorganising was beyond exaggeration" is made by Sir John Fortescue, the historian of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Debts Revision Object of Mr. Mellon's Visit "Daily Express's" Comment London, June 18
The United States Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Andrew Mellon), who is in London on an informal visit, was visited at his hotel to-day by Mr. Montague…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers' Pensions Newcastle Protest Disorderly Proceedings
The meeting of returned soldiers and citizens held last night at the Soldiers' Memorial Institute was marked by boisterousness and disorder…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Returned Soldiers Committee to Inquire Trade-unions' Demands Canberra
On the motion for the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) announced that there had been sitting in Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Labour Preferred Federal A.L.P. Executive's Stand Economy Proposals Committee of Soldiers to Consider Alternatives to Pension Reductions
The Federal Executive of the Australian Labour Party yesterday indicated its attitude towards the economy proposals of the Commonwealth Government. Definite opposition was expressed to that part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maimed Soldiers' Golf Tourney 200 Yards Drive Made London
SIR IAN HAMILTON presented a trophy for an unusual golf tourney at Moore Park, when 36 ex-service man, mostly one-armed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tug O' War
Following are the results of tug o' war contests at Lavender Park, Cessnock, on Saturday. Sweepstakes, with £3 added—Bellbird defeated Cessnock. Twelve and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The War Burden We Still Carry
THE offer by President Hoover of a moratorium of Government war debts is of profound interest to the world, not only because of the measure of immediate relief such a respite would provide, out from the probable implications and sequels of its acceptance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Forego War Debts" Year's Suspension to Aid Recovery America's Offer to World "Germany Now on the Brink of Financial Disaster"
President Hoover announced on Saturday night that the United States was prepared to suspend all war debts and reparations payments for one year in order to aid the financial and economic recovery of the world…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One-armed Soldiers' Golf London, June 20
A. W. Edwards, who lost his right arm at Cambrai in 1917, took up gold after the war and won Sir Jan Hamilton's golf trophy for one-armed ex-service men…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Six Soldiers Killed Lightning Strikes Barn WARSAW, June 20
A barn in the village of Sierpee, in which 24 soldiers were sheltering front a storm, was struck by lightning, and the ammunition exploded, killing six and…
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