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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,068 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 54
On the one hand a group of unoccupied soldiers' homes going to rack and ruin, and on the other the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The newly formed Newcastle Legacy Club met widows and children of deceased soldiers in the Newcastle Town Hall last night to obtain particulars regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London, November 30.—Colonel B. C. Freyberg has been appointed General staff Officer at the War Office. The appointment will be effective from 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The £ jumped nearly five cents at the opening to-day, to above 3.20 dollars, for cables, and continued to show strength, reaching 3.21 dollars within half an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While the League of Nations is vainly seeking a solution of the Manchurian affair, and Japanese and Chinese delegates are wrangling in Geneva, fighting,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The British reply to the United States's Note on war debts received its final form at a meeting of Cabinet to-day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →West Australia has launched a war on emus, mowing them down—or attempting to mow them down—with machine-guns. Queensland made a less spectacular hut…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The funeral of the returned soldier, Joseph Lynch, whose death occurred in the Newcastle Hospital on Thursday, took place in Newcastle yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The King and Queen have given their patronage to the Old War Horse Fund, on organisation for reclaimlnn the tired and broken veterans of the cavalry and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No change has been noted in the attitude of influential Congressmen in the United States to the war debts question as a result of the second British Note detailing reasons for the request for a suspension of the December payment until the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late last night Mrs. Madge McPherson, 53, of Kemp-street, Newtown, was treated at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for an incised wound to the back and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Returned Soldiers' League recently urged the Federal Government to take action to reappraise all war service homes on present-day values. The Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Although the Shantung civil war has been satisfactorily settled, the rival Generals in the Szechuan are fighting bitterly for the possession of the opium rights of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The final or so-called short session of the 72nd Congress will be convened at noon to-morrow, and will continue until March 4, with the most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Latest photograph of Mr. Compton McKenzie, whose book of counter espionage during the war, entitled "Greek Memories,"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fascist Grand Council has decided that Italy shall pay her war debt to America. The Council, over which Signor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is emphasised in official circles that the Anglo-French conversations on the Lausanne agreements do not in any way…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →President Hoover today decided to transmit a special Foreign Affairs Note to Congress late this week. The Note will incorporate war debt…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) stated to-day that Cabinet had decided to grant £2000 to the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League, to provide Christmas fare…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →President Hoover's final message to Congress recommends an 11 per cent, pay cut for Federal employees. A blanketing manufacturers' sales tax…
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