France Defaults War Debts Instalment Note to America Washington, December 15
France formally defaulted with her war debts instalment today. The French Ambassador (M. L Boulaye), and the Acting Secretary of State (Mr. Wm…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1933
1,028 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 52
Kilts for Soldiers
On the recommendation of the Minister for Defence (Senator Sir George Pearce) the Federal Cabinet has accepted a proposal that units of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Ill-starred General Austrian War Figure's Death London
Field Marshal Oskar Von Potlorek died to-day. It was in his motor car that the Archduke Franz Ferninand was assassinated at Sarajevo. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anti-war Body Second Visit from Police Decision to Vacate Offices Sydney
After protesting for more than a month against an order of the owners of the building to quit, the Anti-War Movement has decided to vacate their offices. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prawning War! Professionals and Amateurs at Tuggerah Lakes Sydney
Punishment meted out by magistrates in fisheries prosecutions frequently were an encouragement rather than a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Hall Opened Gathering at Soldiers' Point
A very large crowd assembled at Soldiers' Point. Port Stephens, for the opening of the Thonwhalla Hall (native name for meeting-place), from all parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Returned Soldiers Christmas Hamper Appeal
Hampers provided by the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League through its Christmas appeal will be distributed on Friday, at 2 p.m., at the League rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Returned Men's Fund
The Secretary of the Newcastle Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. G. H. Shaw) announced yesterday that the following additional donations…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court in Hospital Wounded Man Charged
In the hushed atmosphere of a ward at Newcastle Hospital yesterday morning, a patient was formally charged by the police in connection with a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Call Up Recruits "France Must Be Strong" M. Tardieu's Demand Clash with War Minister (Australian Press Association.) PARIS, December 19
Fiery exchanges between the Minister for War (M. Daladier) and M. Tardien marked the passage of a bill altering the date for calling up recruits in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bombs Thrown British Soldiers Injured CALCUTTA, December 20
Terrorism has taken a new form in the town of Hyderabad in Sind. On four occasions' recently bomb were flung among small groups of British soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wounded Constable Heavy Sentence Confirmed SYDNEY
John Douglas applied to the Court of Criminal Appeal to-day for a reduction of the sentence of 15 years imposed on him for having wounded a police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Christmas Bounty for Returned Soldiers' Families
Newcastle branch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' League, thanks to the generous response to the appeal for funds for Christmas cheer, was able to provide well for the families of returned men. The distribution was carried out under the supervision of the Secretary of the League, Mr. G. H. Shaw, who is shown in the centre, with his assistants…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Returned Soldiers
Sir,—With reference to a statement in the. "Newcastle Morning Herald" of December 6 and headed "Christmas Cheer for Returned Soldiers," 1 wish to pass a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Returned Soldiers Christmas Relief Issue
The whole of yesterday afternoon was devoted to the distribution of food relief parcels to returned men at the Anzae Institute. Perkin-street, Newcastle. The guts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend Returned Men's Social
Wallsend returned men celebrated Christmas in the Drill Hall on Saturday evening, with a social, following a children's entertainment. Both were great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Film War Again "Fight to a Finish" MR. C. Munro's Attack Sydney
Mr. Charles Munro, who, with Mr. Stuart Doyle, directs the fortunes of General Theatres Corporation, and is also managing director of Hoyts Theatres…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Returned Soldiers and Christmas
Sir,—It is not my intention to enter into a newspaper controversy relative to the distribution of relief by the Newcastle Sub-branch of the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Incapacitated Returned Soldiers
Tram and train passes for incapaciated returned soldiers will be issued from the office of the Returned Soldiers' League in Perkin-street, Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Nervous" War Lord
If Field Marshal von Hindenburg, as is reported, has never known nervousness, he differs from Frederick the Great. For after his first battle, at Mollwitz, in 1741,…
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