Anzac Day Competition
Entries will close on February 14 for a one-act play to be written by boys and girls under 21 years of age. The competition is being held in conjunction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1933
1,028 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 52
War Memorial at Maitland Flood Light Proposal
West Maitland Council last night agreed to receive a deputation from the local branch of the Returned Sol diers' League, to discuss a proposal,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Under War Conditions Fort Scratchley Gun Practice Port Will Be Closed
While mimic warfare is carried out at Fort Scratchley at the end of the month, Newcastle will reverberate to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Settle War Debts U.S. Attorney's Plan Armaments Holiday Also Progressive Reduction (Australian Press Association.) CHICAGO, January 16
Mr. Salmon P. Levinson, a Chicago attorney, who has participated in international negotiations on war debts, said to-day that he had evolved a plan to lift…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lively Leg Theory War Waged in England Defenders and Attackers Rights and Wrongs of Leg Attack M.C.C. Attitude London
With a liveliness not exceeded even in Australia, a controversy is being waged in England…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallsend Returned Soldiers' Club
To facilitate the organisation of a social club in conjunction with Wallsend Sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League, Wallsend Diggers, at a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Returned Soldiers' League
The secretary of the Newcastle returned Soldiers' League (Mr. G. Shaw) will be in Sydney next week for the purpose of attending a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in the Air
Addressing the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales in Sydney, Commander C. H. Rolleston (retired) said that in future war battles would be fought from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lloyd George's Book of the War London
"I am only 70, and I hope to finish it before I go," said Mr. Lloyd George, revealing that his history of the war had reached 1916…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Not Entirely Normal" Youths Born Since War Plea by Lord Somers
Before more than 100 members and guests of the Melbourne Legacy Club on Wednesday, Lord Somers, formerly Governor of Victoria, delivered his first public…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →President Hoover Conference with Successor Far East and War Debts Washington, January 18
The brief announcement this morning that President Hoover had invited the President-elect (Mr. Roosevelt) to visit him on Friday morning and word from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Leg Theory War: M.C.C. Meets on Monday Consider Australia's Protest Divided Views in England "Larwood As a Reply to Bradman's Batting" "Should Withdraw Protest" London
"Leg-theory is far from attempted assassination," writes H. A. Carson, in the "Evening News," and will stay, much as all regret it, until an easier way of getting wickets is discovered, or batsmen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Debts Must Reach Finality Financier's View No More Payments in Gold (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, January 19
Outspoken remarks on War Debts were made by the Chairman of Barclays Bank (Mr.. F. C. Goodenough) at the shareholders' meeting today. He declared that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Returned Soldiers' League
The annual meeting of the Cessnock sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League is to be held in the Memorial Hall on Tuesday night. The business will…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Injured Soldiers
The State Executive of the Returned Soldiers' Association has written to the New South Wales Cricket Association, asking that special entrance facilities be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatally Wounded Man Dies in Hospital Suicide After Attempt to Shoot Wife Melbourne
John Barber, 24, of Wandin North, died in Melbourne Hospital this evening from a gunshot wound, self-inflicted. Barber, who had been living apart from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queer Fascist Outrage Students Determined Raid on Barracks Two Dead, Six Wounded London
Arnica, with rifles and wearing steel helmets 50 Fascist students incited by a [?]eutenant of the Reserve, scaled the walls of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Leg Theory" War Players Come to Blows ADELAIDE
When Parkland cricketers to-day tried the "leg theory," four batsmen were struck by bumpers, and were treated at Adelaide Hospital. In one match feeling ran so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Debts Proposition for Britain Speculation in U.S. Lump Sum Payment Favoured (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, January 22
There have been no further developments in the war debts situation following the Hoover-Roosevelt conference. Semi-official speculation is now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers League's Annual Meeting
The annual report of the Cessnock sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, which is to be presented to-night, refers with pleasure to the increased activities…
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