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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 42 of 66
Mr. T. J. Vinton-Smith, United Australia Party member for Cakleigh, in the Victorian Parliament, who reached Sydney yesterday by the Aorangi, said he…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) announced yesterday that all Commonwealth departments would he instructed to encourage enlistments of their staffs in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Considerable discussion has been caused by the outspoken comment by Colonel Inglis, of Timaru, on the inadequate state of New Zealand's defence forces…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steps are being taken by Newcastle sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League to have the 1037 annual congress of the League held in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although Newcastle sent a full battalion of men to the Great War and kept up reinforcements for that battalion, it is the only city in the State that does not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Weston Council against War and Fascism organised a meeting in the Capitol Theatre on Sunday night. Mr. F. Manning presided, and addresses were given by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The response to France's proposals to the Powers for an agreement not to intervene in the Spanish civil war by the despatch to either side of munitions of war or aeroplanes is making considerable progress…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →August 8, a day of glorious achievement in the history of the A.I.F., when the Australians, with other troops, launched the offensive in the Villers Bretonneux area, was a day of black despair for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—"Unemployed Digger" is no doubt justified in his assertions against the nonenforcement (in his case) of the Soldiers' Preference Act, and I sympathise with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 1937 congress of the Returned Soldiers' League may be held in Newcastle. Recently the Newcastle Tourist and Publicity Bureau forwarded circular letters to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Permanent occupations for disabled soldiers who previously belonged to the Federal Public Service are to be provided by the Federal Government by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Soviet has decreed the conscription of 19-year-old youths. The-limit previously was 21…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For several months officers of the 2/35th Battalion have been trying to interest youths to Join, but to far only about 10 in the Wallsend area…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Italy and Germany have now agreed to the principle of non-intervention in Spain, thus reducing the danger of international complications arising from the civil war. Reservations have been made by Italy, relating principally to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With two sentries posted, eight British soldiers were bathing naked in a pool in an eastern valley of the Esdraelon plain, when 30 Arabs crept up…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Paris, August 11.—The Chamber of Deputies has passed the bill to nationalise war industries as amended by the Senate, which extended the definitions of war…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Glen Innes branch of the Country Women's Association Younger Set decided to send the following resolution for consideration at the next Younger Set…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In reply to critics who attacked his memoirs, Lloyd George employed terms as vigorous as any combatant would wish. "Palpable inaccuracies," "egregious examples,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Federal Cabinet decided to-day to authorise the completion of the National War Memorial at Canberra. Costing £160,000, the work, which includes the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In some parts of Spain, hostilities are reminiscent of the wars in the Middle Ages. Fortified villages have to be token singly. Moorish castles…
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